Happy Leap Day!

Here are some more scrapbook layouts I've recently done. These were all done for work at last minutes' notice, so they're not as thoughtful as the previous ones. Anyway, enjoy!

Snow Fun

Scott and I are watching my sister's children for a week while she is in Mexico. So while she's enjoying hot sun and warm beaches and sunburn, we decided to enjoy what we had and play in the snow. Uintah basin has definitely had it's share of snow! There are piles and piles of it to sled on...
...and eat.


Some favorite quotes of the week:

Said by Kaelan (age 10) to Scott just tonight while Scott was cleaning up after dinner: "You can fix the internet but you can't turn on a vacuum?"

Bryson (age 3): "Do you want a friendly alien?" but which sounded like "d'yoo wanuh fwendwy aweean?" (It took Scott three or four attempts to figure out what he was asking, with Bryson's anger rising each time Scott didn't understand what was so painfully clear to Bryson.) Then Bryson went on to "show off" his friendly (imaginary) alien that was walking beside him.

Bryson: "When I grow up, I want to be arithmatic." Britta: "a what?" Bryson: "Arithmatic, you know, and do magic." Britta: "Oh, a magician" Bryson: "that's what I said!"

What do YOU do on Sunday Afternoons?

Hobbies

Britta and I have been saving old jeans since we've been married in the idea for making a quilt. Our Freshman year of college Britta made me a blue jean quilt for Christmas, and it has remained my favorite blanket ever since. Once our collection of old jeans reached critical mass, Britta started on another. (Thanks to mom for lending us her sewing machine for this project.) Two and a half weeks, several pin pricks, and thread bobbins later, we have a new, multi-toned, super jean quilt, bigger and heavier than the previous. Britta made it large enough for both of us to fit under it comfortably, and so it is about 86"X72". We love it already. Thank you Britta!


With only a few months of normal life left before school starts again for me, I decided I would like to pick up a hobby. (I also think that this is spurred on by my day off when I don't have anything to do and my tendency to become awfully stir-crazy.) I have always had a dream of doing wood working, even furniture building, and having my own shop. This dream is quite impracticable now, or even in the near future, so I decided to start small. In south Provo on State Street is a woodcarving shop called Treeline, and visiting the store made me feel like a child in a candy shop. I picked out a couple of tools and a pattern for a wood chain and some wood blocks and so I'm off on a new hobby. I'll keep you updated on my progress and future projects, at least until time runs out for me.

Cancelled!

We awoke this morning to a snow storm. By about 8:30 four or five inches had acumulated. After spending the better part of two hours trying to keep the walks clear at the stake center, and another three inches adding up, church was cancelled. This is the first time in my living memory that church had been cancelled. So, instead of spending the time in church, I began to reread "Standing for Something," by President Gordon B. Hinckley. What a great book. Much of what was written seems especially insightful and prescient now, just as it did eight years ago when first published. The world seems to be such a different place than it was then.
On another note, Britta has spent a god deal of her time making a new quilt for us. . . pictures to follow. I won't say any more so I don't spoil her presentation party.

Happy February!

While I was in paper craft mode, I thought I'd share some Valentine card ideas I made for work. Happy Early Valentine's Day!