Max's Mexican Birthday Week

Thursday was Max's 76th birthday. In our family we celebrate "birthday weeks" and we had an interesting week, including a full blown homemade Mexican fiesta on Tuesday AND dinner at one of our favorite local Mexican restaurants on Thursday. For pictures and commentary of both events, visit our Max & Carol's Life blog. There is "smut" talk, so don't miss it!

-Carol

Back from Seattle

Hi everyone,
I got back from Seattle on Monday night... quilting girlfriend went with me. We had a great time and the weather was absolutely wonderful in Seattle. Went to the awards night, the Gala Auction night and 3 to 4 seminars each day. Also shopped at all the vendors, but were fairly "good" -- only bought a couple books and some thread but no fabric. Well..... since neither of us bought any fabric at the show, we did stop to check out a new quilt shop on the way home and managed to find some fabric we could not live without there.

The quilt show was awsome... very overwhelming. It is a juried show... you have to be juried into the show by three jurors. Then it is judged by 3 judges. The Best of Show was an outstanding quilt with a huge cat on it. The whole show was awsome.
My quilt (wall hanging) that was auctioned off brought $500.00 which was one of the top ones that sold. Made me feel really good.

Anyway... it was a great weekend. This week at work has been very busy - trying to catch up, and I was only gone from work on Thursday, Friday and Monday..... and I don't work Fridays anyway. I have an assistant now and she works Fridays, and when I am gone on vacation and conference, etc. That helps a lot.

I am hoping to STAY HOME this weekend... seems like we have been gone someplace every weekend since summer got here. Our summers (good weather) are so short that we cram everything into a very short time period.

Hope everyone is having a great summer.
Bunny

More photos & misc. comments from Bunny

Great photo f Aunt Marian and good looking pie as well. Waiting for the recipe...

Thanks for the comments Shirley... would have loved to gone to the quilt show.

We had a great reunion... lots of old people there!!! ;o) It was lots of fun seeing many of my classmates and two of my best friends from high school were there -- so that was great. Had a nice visit with my Dad and Laveta as well, but the best part was visiting with Rian and Gina on the way down and on the way back. Will try to put a couple photos in here.

What kind of help does Aunt Marian need for the genealogy thing? I am very interested... maybe could do some stuff in my spare time -- HA! HA! Really I am very interested in all our family history.

Had company all this weekend... some of Jim's family and then other friends spent the night after family left.... busy weekend.

This next weekend I am off to Seattle for the Pacific Northwest Quilt Fest. My quilt (wall hanging) that is in the invitational quilt show and has been traveling around the country for two years will be auctioned off. Here is the link if you want to see the quilts. http://www.apnq.org/
Go to the "Wish You Were Here" link for the traveling invitational quilts. Mine is a fairy on dark blue background.
Will let everyone know how it goes when I return.
Love, Bunny