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My third attempt

This has been such a busy, exciting and tiring month. Been able to finalize all the flooring and has it scheduled for installment next week. Had done cleaning and organizing and redoing the house all in preparation for the flooring plus the "little dude's" visit. 



The "little dudes" were here this past week and boy was it so good to have them here. It went by way too fast as always, you just wish time would slow down when you have events like this. But we had a good time we were able to get a lot of Grammy and Papa time in. They left Tuesday morning and it's taken me a couple days to just kind of mellow out and get my footing back.
I'm already planning their visit for Christmas.
With all of my busy work with the house and riding around for flooring I was able to complete the Boy's I spy quilt. 



Well almost completed, I have the binding to put on, but I still put them on their beds so they can enjoy doing I spy. Which just tickle me pink when they did, I thought it was the cutest thing. It made all this time and effort well worth it
I will have more pictures and details on their ISpy quilts this weekend.
I had also gone to a retreat the. I have pictures of what the others were working on while at the retreat and I will put them up in my next post. My goal is to get back on track with writing my blog.
Well that's sort of a brief summary of this past month which I would like to give more details
So Until tomorrow hope all is well and take care

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  1. The boys are so cute! I'll bet you miss them already. Nice that they enjoyed the I Spy quilts already, binding or no. :)

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  2. in response to you email to me yes I would love a copy of the air ship propeller block that was in the newspaper back in the 1930's I tried to send you an email but it came back as unsent - send me an email I will get you my address - thanks

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  3. Those two look like they know how to have fun. Looking forward to seeing the completed I-spy quilts.

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