Birthday Surprise from the Wonderful Women Who Quilt

My birthday was on a Monday night this year so I celebrated it with the Wonderful Women Who Quilt the night division of Pieceful Hearts Quilter in North Augusta, SC. We meet at St. Bart's Episcopal Church on Martintowne Road the first Monday of the month for meetings and every Monday following for quilting bees. They are a great group of ladies and we have lots of fun helping each other and spurring each other on in our projects. Usually only a handful come to the bees but the meetings are rather large.

me (before the great haircut), Ille (the doll who brought me cake) and Betsy and Marie













me, Ille, Betsy













Jackie, Marie, me, Ille, Betsy, Kay's mom, Kay's sister Beth













The WWWQ gave me flip flops for my birthday!! They said since it wasn't a finished quilt they were going to give it to me as a quilt kit...thankfully they were kidding :)
















They wouldn't tell me what was going in the middle so I suppose I will have to wait to see what it is














Sooooo.... I was invited to the quilt workday the following week after Margaret was finished working and this is what they had done before I got there



















adding some flip flops



















Ille pondering



















Mary & Margaret pondering



















Laying it out what does it need????














Margaret sewing like a fiend & Ille preparing to iron.














Ille who irons as meticulously as she quilts and pieces.



















Mary working on flip flop blocks














Quilt so far...and yes Margaret I swiped the pic from your blog *heh heh heh*

Last Breakfast for the School Year :(

Some of us from church get together on Fridays after the kids go to school for a moms breakfast social/accountability session. This was our last breakfast for the school year and before I got my hair cut. The pic of me is just horrendously awful. Poor Dudley had to stay outside and was sad. Bridgette still has not had baby boy #4. I believe he will be like Timothy and come when he gets round-to-it *sigh*

Mothers Day May 10th in Okeechobee

We went to Timothy's Sunday School class and watched part 3 of They Sold Their Souls for Rock N' Roll which I would highly recommend after only seeing the one part. It was very informative and blew my mind completely.



They gave mothers and grandmothers a yellow rose in the church service and this was mine the next day. It smelled so good too!!








I was then surprised by Timothy telling me that he was going to be BAPTIZED!!! YAY!!! It was so exciting to see him go into the waters.









Afterwards we went to the Crossroads Diner and then came back to the Farm to hang out until it was time to go to the farm next door. They have a pond there where the guys climb up and jump off into the pond from a swing. I wasn't good yet at taking the flying shots so I didn't get one of Timothy.

May 9th in Okeechobee with Timothy

We started our day with an airboat tour and saw all sorts of birds, babies, dozens of baby alligators and a hint of a couple big alligators in the water (which was fine by me don't need to see them up close and personal).















































































































































































Birds and babies














We ate lunch at Lightsey's. Timothy had a burger and I had crab cake salad and we both tried the frog leg appetizers...tastes like chicken. The wait was long but we got there at prime time. The food was really good though and it gave us time to chat and Timothy to make phone calls to family. The decor was very interesting too.












































The largest hill aka the dump in Okeechobee