A Quilt for BB

My sewing adventures really began a few years ago when I told Nanny (my grandma) that what I wanted for Christmas was for her to teach me how to sew.  So for Christmas, she found my great-grandmother's old Singer sewing machine in the attic and had it cleaned and serviced.  Then she gave me a lesson on the basics of sewing!  My first project was sewing a throw pillow for my room while I was at Duke Divinity School.  After that, I was so busy with school, work and planning a wedding that I didn't do much with it.  Not to mention, I didn't have a good space to set up the sewing machine and a "project space".

BB Meets Baby Sophie

My step-sister, Amber, had her second precious baby girl last Thursday, May 10th!  Since Josh and I were headed out of town for the weekend for Daniel's graduation from CNU, we didn't get a chance to meet baby Sophie right away.  Then, of course, Josh flew out of Norfolk to head to Yellowstone National Park on Sunday so he won't even be back until next Wednesday.  So, yesterday I had the chance to go visit Amber, Kaylynn and Sophie right after work!  She is absolutely adorable and a pretty content little thing! While I was holding her, BB decided to kick at her a little.  I guess BB was excited to meet cousin Sophie.

BB's Trip to the Zoo!

As Josh mentioned, we had the chance to head to Richmond two Saturdays ago to not only run some errands and finish registering for BB, but to go on our April date in my year of dates gift I gave him for Christmas.  April's date was a trip to the Richmond Zoo!!  It's some place we have always wanted to go, but never carved out the time.  I was SUPER excited about feeding the giraffes.  What a great little zoo it is!  We had a blast seeing all the animals and especially reading all the educational material about almost every animal we saw...but that's pretty typical of us.  Since BB can hear now, this was BB's first encounter with animal noises besides dogs!  We hope BB enjoys animals as much as we do.  Enjoy the pictures and videos from BB's first trip to the zoo!

The scanner tried to eat my baby!

I've been meaning to get these pictures online for some time. Imagine my surprise when I went to scan them and the picture didn't pop out the other side as they were supposed to. I found little BB (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) wrapped around the spindle in the machine.

Enjoy the photos. Sorry they are a bit grainy.