May fun

Well, that month went fast! Its now been a month exactly since my last class. I have enjoyed every minute of my "freedom" and reveled in my return to stay-at-home-momness. I horded every minute (thus no posting!) I could of this last month where the kids were in school and I had a few hours to myself during the day. I whipped out quite a few fun little quilt projects:

Most still need to have the bindings finished but I am loving them already, especially the Mary Englebright table runner. I'll post pics of it when it's finished and washed. The flowers are raw-edge applique and the edges will unravel and give the runner a bit of texture.

Let's see, what else have we been up to??? Well, soccer finished up. Now the kids are begging for gymnastics, so I'll have to see what I can do about that. We packed up the "brewery" and headed down to the homebrew shop to join in Big Brew Day- where the American Homebrew Association tries to set the record for the most gallons of homebrew beer brewed in a single day. Each local chapter logs how many gallons were brewed and adds it to the tally of all the others across the country. I'm not sure how much was brewed this time, our chapter made around 95 gallons. Several of the other local homebrewers brought their set-ups down and everyone brewed together. It was cool to see all the different ways people have set themselves up to brew.

For Mother's Day we packed up a picnic and "hiked" to Crystal Creek Falls, next to Whiskeytown lake. I say "hiked" because it is a quarter mile walk in from the parking lot up a gravel paved road to the falls, but the kids had a blast and there was a lot of water running, so that was neat to see. We're hoping to start hiking a bit more seriously with the kids this summer and this was a nice introduction for them.

School is wrapping up for the year for both kids, Thursday is the last day for Tony. Meagan joined Tiny Tots for the last month. It is the same preschool program that Tony went to before PreK. They had their annual bike parade and field trip to Turtle Bay last week. Tony had his spring performance this morning. They rocked out to Rockin' Robin and did the twist, very entertaining.

So there you have it: The month of May for the March family.