food, crochet, merriment
While listening to a session of Conference these two sweethearts called from Paris! Holy smokes–the Eifel Tower to be exact.
It was choppy.
It was fuzzy.
It was a little hard to hear.
But mostly, it was glorious and waaaay too short!
Travel safely my loves and come home soon!
love, love, love…
…mom to you. Heh, heh.
April and October General Conference are a HUGE favorite at our house. But this year we had a little extra fun, on top of the usual!! I got to spend the Saturday sessions with Dane and Kortney and the kids. It was positively wonderful.
It’s been so lovely having these guys back with us. And I finally, finally got brave enough to drive clear out to their house BY MYSELF. I know, I know–what a baby, right? Well, I did it.
Take that Eagle Mountain! HA! I’m not scared of you anymore!
Being with my sweet family. Eating luscious food. Listening to the prophets speak. It’s perfect, I tell you.
So many beautiful, loving moments…
of pure… Heaven.
Well, out of the clear blue sky…ok, not really–but it felt like it–all these lucky ducks hopped on a few planes and ended up in EUROPE!!
They were very clever about the rooming situation–all the girls in one room and all the boys in another. Adorable–right?
It will be so much fun getting once-in-a-lifetime photos from these guys every few days.
Next time…so help me…I’m going with them!!! I mean honestly, how else will I find my Scottish Farmer? Hmmmmm?
Guess I have some work to do.
Yikes.
Sometimes when you feel like you’ve run out of space–it is very easy to get overwhelmed and….welll….
let things go.
I admit, that’s exactly what I did. I knew I needed to rotate out all the expired stuff but it felt daunting. And besides, those expiration dates are getting tinier and tinier and harder and harder to see every single day. Ha.
Enter my sweet Lyndi, whose got a fabulous way of taking chaos…
and after hours and hours of hard work…
turning it…
into…
rows and rows…
of lovely, meticulous ORDER!!!
I can now find EXACTLY what I need in a matter of seconds!!
Hallelujah!!!
To me, when I look at my crazy shelves now, all I can see is…
love.
Thank you my sweet, kind, incredibly hard working girl. You’ll never know how deeply I appreciate all this awesomeness.
I love you Lyndi.
This sweet project was truly a labor of love that took nearly a year to complete. It was April’s turn to choose an afghan and she chose the pattern and all the colors. She really has the best eye for all that, so I was thrilled that she didn’t tell me to just wing it. That would have gone badly!!
I stitched the squares together with a simple single crochet. I know there are fancier ways to do it but this worked just fine.
The edge came from the deep ridiculous recesses of my brain and I’m sure I couldn’t do it twice–Haha. I just kept going around until it looked like I wanted it to.
In the end, we both thought it was perfect.
For you April….with love.
Mom
Original pattern is called the Island Time Granny Square by Mallory Krall