We Have Fun!! (FINALLY!)

We started the month with a family reunion. The ENTIRE Greenway clan got together to spend a week playing, camping and serving before Grandpa and Grandma Greenway leave to go on their mission (to Jakarta, Indonesia I might add) We had a crazy time together. We went to Knoebels Amusement Park, camping at Pine Grove State Park, had our semi-occasional Greenway Family Bowling tournament (which Sara won) and a service project that allowed the "boys" to play with power tools!! (I didn't get any pictures of the service project) The whole week was a blast.

Ok, here are the picture (FINALLY!!)

1st off, isn't she just the cutest thing?!?!

Our day at Knoebels! Everyone had a great time!

Even Sadie and Kathryn had a great time.

Sadie especially loved the rides.

Once we realized that she liked the rides, she rode them all with Isaac.

Our next big adventure was CAMPING.

We took 2 RV's (so little ones could nap etc.) and a bunch of tents and went to Pine Grove State Park. We were there for 3 days and 2 nights.



While there, we had the Greenway Family Talent Show. John and Matt were the announcers.

Amy and Cecily



The Richins Family



Grandma and Grandpa

Adam and Eli



Nate

Finally we had our bi-annual (or whenever we all get together) Greenway Family Bowling tournament.












And here is our big winner!! Sara beat us all. (well she only beat me because Isaac started to throw up in the bowling alley trash can. (wink, wink))

My First Quilt

On one of the blogs I read, Amy's Creative Side they have a huge quilt festival called The Bloggers Quilt Festival where people submit pictures of quilts they have made, why they are proud of them and a story behind the quilt. I am able to participate this year because I HAVE A QUILT!! (several actually, but this is the one that I am the most proud of)

When my son Isaac was born his aunt and his grandma both made him a quilt. The quilt from his aunt has become his "B" and to say he loves it is an understatement. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I wanted her to have a special blanked also. Originally, I picked out the fabric so that her grandma could make her the quilt, but I'd started to quilt right after my daughter was born and I decided that I wanted to be the one to make her "B". I practiced by making other quilt tops and made my mistakes on those. Once I got "the hang" of quilting, I picked out her pattern and got started. It turned out so beautiful with the bright pink, bright purple and green. The picture does not do it justice. Once the quilt top was done, I was going to send it to be quilted and bound. But, the opportunity came up to quilt it myself and so I was able to use a longarm machine, quilt it and then finish it. It was the first quilt that I did from start to finish. I did it all by myself and it is for my daughter. It not only is special to me, but she sleeps with it in her crib every night!

So, what have we been up to???

Sadie turned 1! She got her own cupcake and enjoyed pretty much every morsel. At first she didn't know what to do with it, but when she discovered it tasted pretty good, it was a feast!

Sadie got a baby doll for her birthday. I handed it to her one day in Wal-mart to keep her happy while Isaac was looking at toys. She cried when I took it away to put it back. So I let her keep it and when she got tired of it, I wrapped it. She was so happy to see it when she unwrapped it. She calls it "baby" and loves to hug it and carry it with her.

Sadie started to walk about a week after seeing her cousin walking at their birthday party. It was like "hey, I can do that!" and so she did.

She now has enough hair to style and so far she is pretty good about holding still as I style it. She loves her pretty hair (so does her mom).

Isaac continues to love school and was devestated the few times that we had a snow day.

Isaac and Ty go to the Lowe's Build and Gro sessions every other week or so. Isaac enjoys building things (we've collected quite the stash of handmade gadgets and toys) He gets a patch to put on his apron. We are on our second apron.

Isaac has become quite the little puzzler. He LOVES to do puzzles. We started him on the small 24 piece puzzles. He is now to the more complicated 100 piece puzzles. He needs a little help the first time he puts it together and then he'll take it apart and put it together again and again and again.

He also got to go with his dad one Saturday and spend some time with some firefighters. They let the kids try on their fire suits and hats AND ride on the fire truck. He had a blast.

I have continued quilting. I really do love it and love that it is "quiet time" for me. In fact, Isaac has said to me on a number of occasions "Mom, it is a good day to sew". I had to agree.