I'm Back!

So my sewing maching decided it hated me last week. For some reason the bobbin thread wasn't coming through. This is part of the reason why I didn't take the quilt I started to the craft night.

Well, my mother came over yesterday and I asked her to take a look at my machine. She worked her magic and it started working again. Yay! I made her sit and wait for me to sew a couple of the pieces just in case it was only working because she was sitting there. :o)

She ended up staying while I finished sewing together the top of the quilt. How exciting! It looks so cool and I am so proud of myself. Now, if I only new what I needed to do next to finish it. :o) I guess it is time to pick my friend Jessica's brain for help.

This morning has already been a busy morning. This week is bring a friend free week at Gilroy Gardens and since Aimee has a season pass she was nice enough to take me. We went for about an hour, just before Gage and Payton's nap time. It was so nice today because it was a little overcast today and a very comfortable temperature. Today we went on totally different rides than we went on the last time we went. Payton even went on some rides by herself. (I was so proud of her).

Craft Night

Last night a group of us got together for a craft night. It was so fun. We all just brought something we wanted to work on and a yummy treat to share. Visiting being our number one priority. LOL

I was torn between taking the quilt I have been trying to work on and scrapbooking. I opted for scrapbooking. I miss scrapbooking. I haven't done it in a while. To give you an idea, I am still trying to scrapbook my trip to Hawaii in, I think, 2002.

I do have plans to try and work on my hobbies during Payton's naps a couple times a week. So hopefully that will allow me to get caught up on my scrapbooking. Last night I got one set of pages done. Better than nothing. :o)

I hear we are going to make the craft night a monthly event. I can't wait for the next one.

Apricot Jam

Yesterday the Day's were nice enough to let Aimee and I come over and raid their apricot tree. One thing led to another and Aimee and I were making jam last night. 3 whole batches.

I am suprised that we were successful. Neither of us had ever made jam before on our own and both of us have a history of not being good with recipes or directions. :o) All 3 batches turned out and all the jars of jam sealed. We are very excited. I hope it tastes super yummy.

So while I was at the gym I read an article about a woman that worked out during her pregnancy. She talked about her experience with people giving her disapproving looks while she was jogging or making comments like "your belly is supposed to pop out" while she was doing ab exercises. I got a kick out of the article because I remember when I was pregnant with Payton people always gave me their two cents about my workouts.

The writer made the comment that she thought it was interesting that more people, especially those that are so into fitness didn't know or understand the benefits of working out while pregnant. Of course you do need to be resonable and listen to your body but overall it is really good for you. I am so glad I have the doctor that I have. She really supports me staying active during my pregnancy and just tells me to listen to my body and that it will tell me when I can't do something which it unfortunately has started to do. I have already had to start backing off on the amount of weight that I am lifting. But I did run 3 1/2 miles this morning and that felt good!

I really want to get a prenatal pilates and/or yoga video. Does anyone know of any good ones?

Play Date

I love Mondays! If you know me very well at all you know that I constantly stress about what I am going to do with Payton during the day. I don't want her to get bored and I sure as heck don't want to get bored. I want to make sure that she stays stimulated and happy. So as you can probably imagine what you do with a 15 month old all day every day can be overwhelming.

Mondays are sort of my free day. We all get together and the kids play. It is so nice. Plus I love visiting with all my firends. :o) Yesterday we all went to Jessica's house for the play date. We talked about how different the play dates are now as compared to what they used to be like. All the babies are all mobile. They used to sit around and look at each other now they are all over the place. Even little Sadie was keeping up with all of them. Amazing!

After the play date and after Payton's nap we decided to take a little swim. I thought it was going to be really nice. After all it had been hot all day. Well yesterday it decided to cool off as soon as the sun started going down. Not that it was cold but it wasn't as warm as I had thought or hoped it would be.

Gilroy Gardens

On Friday, Aimee, Gage, Jessica, Sadie, Payton, and I braved the heat and went went to Gilroy Gardens. I had never been before, it was pretty cool. I think it is a pefrect place to go if you have younger kids. We didn't get through the whole park but the portion I saw was really well kept and had rides that younger kids would love.

Payton really isn't ready to go on any rides by herself but we did try a few of the rides that I could do with her and I think she had a good time. She seemed a little nervous of the Merry-Go-Round at first and pretty much had a death grip on me the whole time the ride was moving but she to warm up to it by the time it was over.

I think it would be fun to go again...maybe when it it a little cooler. :o)

Have you ever wondered what would happen to your children when you are sick and daddy is taking care of them. Wonder no more... :o)

This past weekend I ended up getting flu or something. My skin and joints hurt. I was naseated. My low back hurt so bad. Then my back started hurting between my shoulder blades and all around to my chest, I thought I might be having a heart attack. I even almost passed out. I have never had that tunnel vision before, I ended up on the floor and had to have Dave come pick me up. I am so glad that I am feeling better now. Yay! I hope that doesn't happen again.