Jon and Anna's Wedding Madness!

Well it was slight madness for me but that's all it takes right now! So 2 weeks ago it started with truffle making... ha, ha, ha! Yes I had planned on making 1,000 truffles.

What can I say I think big :) I only made it to 700 with the help of the lovely Suzanne who is currently staying with us. They were milk chocolate dipped in either white or dark chocolate. and most were specially decorated with little pink flowers or a squiggly S type of Monogram.

Then after leaving for Missouri last Friday morning I spent Saturday at a Civil War reenactment with my Mother and Sisters. Fun! Pretty much I love anything that involves dressing up! Then Monday morning we imposed on my good friend Laura and I started the cake. Wow! It was gorgeous! 6 tiers, the 1st one chocolate with chocolate chips and filled with chocolate buttercream, the 2nd was white filled with a cherry filling, then Marble with a coconut and pecan buttercream filling, then we had 2 layers of strawberry filled with strawberry buttercream :) , and it was topped with another chocolate layer filled with strawberry buttercream!!! Aah! It was so good! Here's pictures!

All the stuff sticking out of the sides was from a flower display behind it :)

This is a good close up so you can see a few of the details :D

I have to thank Both of my good friend Lauras! Laura McDavitt was absolutely incredible hosting us while I destroyed her kitchen and my children overran her house and she watched my baby and helped settle many of the decisions that were made during the cake and pictures process! And thank you Laura Aitchison who so willingly put us up in her house while we stayed for the wedding in Nauvoo, she guided me around to help with picture ideas, and helped me prep and choose pictures! Thank you Thank you to the fabulous Laura's in my life!

And this is a picture of the wonderful new little family that we did this for!

Congrats Jon & Anna! We love you!

Sperry updates

So, Jack just learned how to hold and shake a rattle.

OK, in our best sappy sniffly voices, let's all say "I'm so Proud!"

Hehe! Things are still goin' here :)

Ally is gonna be in her school talent show doing a little red riding hood monologue. It's a full page long.. of 12 point single line typing. She's got it down!

Livvy is amazing! She does everything she's told and her only desire is to go to a birthday party... someday.. it seems every one she is invited to is on Sunday (We don't do parties on Sunday. I know I'm a mean, horrible mom. But it's our day and the Lord's.) or we are gone that weekend. It's really true! I keep telling her it's no big deal that there will be lot's of parties in her life but even I'm starting to be shocked by the odd coincidence of every time!

Layna has discovered she will be starting school in the fall and thinks she's about the hottest thing around!

Phoebe's a screamer who has taken up boys bathroom habits of spending hours on the pot. I think I need to get her a stack of board books in there while she sits. So, annoying when I have things to do.

In general, things are good. Alex has a window washing business now and I have a pattern design company. I'll post when websites go up!

While Daddy's away...

Well Alex was gone to Moab for about a week starting the 15th and I thought I'd put up a couple pictures of the fun we had while Daddy was off playing!

Happy Conference

I hope you all had a fantastic conference weekend! Our family was lucky enough to spend it with Alex's family Saturday, Saturday Night we had girl time and talked wedding and dress for My soon to be Sister in Law! And here is a picture of Sunday

we spent that with my wonderful parents. Phoebe obviously enjoyed her time with Grandpa :)

But I think honestly the highlight of the weekend was sewing Friday till 2:30 am with my momma and sisters! Only Natalie and I lasted till the full 2:30 of the morning... hehe... We felt a little sorry for the people who live on the same block as the quilt shop because when your up that late, and still enjoying it :), no matter how sober you are you start to sound drunk! We're prepping for another girls weekend I think. We're all starting to feel it! 

Anyhow, Conference was wonderful, and I can't wait to get it on CD so we can go over it again and again. Lots in there for us. Hold the course. Be positive. Have faith.

Sorry

So.... I'm sorry guys apparently my last post was misleading and I feel the need to come clean... That is not my quilt. Sad but true. Apparently you were all as taken with the fabric as I was because I never said I made it. I simply chose it because it looked like it was swallowing some lucky little girl in fabric :) It was really just supposed to be one of those generic web found pictures used to illustrate a point. Feel free to continue admiring it though, I know I will!

Guess what I've been up to!

Hey everyone!

So I know it's been awhile :) sorry! I think the fabric and quilting world is eating me alive! lol!

I've been contributing almost regularly on the Missouri Star Quilt Co. (MSQC) blog

I've also started a quilting blog of my own!

It's pretty exciting for me because I decided to do this to promote quilt patterns that I am in the process of designing and printing. There aren't any completed ones up yet, but several sneak peek pics and just other info about little projects I'm working on :) Go check it out if you have a chance. It's called Hillary Ann... Designing Happy
I chose the name thinking it fits in so many forms... Designing happy kinda like Slap happy, designing and I'm happy :), and designing happiness. My goal was more for that last thought (though I kind of like the slap happy connection :) ). After all my mother was a big believer in you choose how you feel so why not be happy by design!

S. W. Photography

So, how lucky am I to have a fabulous photographer friend who while visiting after month's away from eachother actually wants to spend time taking gorgeous pictures of my sweet baby! Super lucky that's what.

Thanks Sher!

I tried to pick just a couple of these to put up... I grabbed almost all of them and then took some off so I didn't overwhelm the page. If you want see the rest click here to get to her blog page. The pictures really are fabulous!