First Camping Trip of the Summer

We just got home from our first camping trip of the summer. It was alot of work to clean out the tent trailer and get it restocked, but also rewarding to use it again and appreciate the value of not having to sleep on the ground. We went camping over by Bend, at Lake Billy Chinook, with my oldest son and his family. They just bought a beautiful trailer and this was their maiden camping trip with their new toy. We had two side-by-side camp sites at Crooked River campground with nice large sites, all grass. It wasn't crowded and Peter's friend Adam came along and brought his boat. So lucky us spent all day Saturday on the lake surrounded by these rock walls as the lake is down in a canyon - it was so beautiful, mountains covered in snow in the background and the lake was not very crowded so we just had a blast. My daughter Hannah loved being towed behind the boat on this huge inner tube like raft and even though it submarined her once, she got back on like a trouper and kept signaling faster, faster. She is quite the daredevil and loves an adventure. We had smores and banana boats, and Peter cooked two amazing breakfasts, I got to sit in the shade and read a book, and the kids had a blast riding their bikes all over. All in all - a great first camping trip, so much so that we are going back next weekend. I left the tent trailer at Peter and Paula's and brought my grandaughter Berkeley home with us for the week, we will go back to Bend on Friday and back up to the same campground for another adventure weekend. Off to a great start of the summer.

Quilting Away

I have been working madly on a quilt that will hopefully be a special wedding gift. Bryndle, a very special friend to my daughter and I, is getting married in June and my daughter is the flower girl in the wedding. Bryndle and her husband to be Steve, have bought a home and fixed it up. Their colors are teal and brown and they have alot of brown but not alot of teal. The minute I saw their home and furniture I knew it needed a homemade quilt draped over the back of the couch to snuggle under and watch movies together (them, not us). So a quick trip to Craft Warehouse, lucky me hit the sale, and a bag of gorgeous fabric later I have been sewing like mad. I need to get it in the mail to the quilter ASAP so must keep sewing, must keep sewing, must keep sewing. It is going to be different, of course no pattern, just random piecing and squares. I will post a picture before it is wrapped and given away. Bryndle and her future husband are an inspiration to me. I thought purity was all gone and lost in this world, but they took a vow of purity and are truly waiting for their wedding night. I so admire their faith and the fact that they walk their talk. Thanks Bryndle and Steve for the great role models that you are to the world. Must get sewing, must get sewing...