Quilts Galore!

Friday morning, Faith and Grace met with a group of ladies, and young ladies to make patchwork baby quilts to donate to charities. Everyone brought their sewing machines, irons, a sack lunch, and a lot of creativity! Piles of pre-cut squares, in various shades of blues, reds, yellows, and greens, overflowed from a center table. Everyone was told to fall too, and the quilt making began! Once everyone had layed out their quilt design, they then started to sew it together with a partner along side to iron down the seams. After the top of the quilt was stitched together, we then moved on to finishing with the batting, back piece, and yarn ties. Even though we were not able to stay long enough to finish both our quilts, we did come home with some wonderful tips on quilting, and can't wait to be able to do another quilting bee!

Where all the quilts began . . . . .  

Katie's pretty purple quilt.  

Putting the finishing touches on Faith's quilt.  

Ta da! Here is Grace with her finished quilt top. Ain't it pwitty! :-) 

A Sinners Prayer

If I had sinned but once a day
That would be more then You,
should pay for me.

But everyday, and every hour
Encompasses a thousand wrongs
Transgressions of Thy holy law,
and you gave all for me!

Oh Cross of Christ!
How horrible and bloody there you stand.
How loving also, with that perfect, spotless Lamb,
Who hung and died,
That I, the "chief of sinners"
Then might live!

Perfect I will never be,
While on this earthly soil I stand.
But I shall strive, by Thy great grace
to conquer every sin.

Lord, bring me back, when I forget
And wander from Thy holy way.
Forgive my sins, increase my faith!
That I may live for Thee.

John's Lawn Service

Lawn-mowing anyone? John, Dad and I have had more than our fair share of it since John and I canvassed the neighborhood five weeks ago with flyers advertising "John's Lawn Service." For an average sized lawn the rates are $12 dollars for one lawn job and $45 for a month contract. Great prices huh? Well, other people in our subdivision seem to think so and with the help of Dad and I, John is now mowing 12 lawns per week. Right now we are sticking to the classic mow and trim using the good old push mower which is great exercise. We don't use those riding lawn mowers that are made specifically for lazy people. :) (just joking) I will admit however, that there have been a couple jobs where I was wishing we did have a riding mower.

One of these jobs is a double lot that takes us 2 hours to complete and the other is smaller but has a fair-sized ridge on it. It would be hard enough if that was all, but no, the city decided to make it as interesting as possible for us mowers. They just had to plant about 8 pine trees in a row along the top of the ridge, and these particular pine trees happen to have branches that are only about 3 to 4 feet above the ground, so obvously for a 5 foot 11 inch guy like me or a 6 foot 3 guy like John it can get to be slightly annoying and uncomfortable. As you can imagine, since one of us is trying to push a 45 pound lawn mower in a straight line at a 40 degree angle, dodge under low pine tree branches and miss piles of pine cones at the same time, our rows begin to take on very interesting designs by the time we reach the end of the ridge. At another job we have to dodge doggy land mines instead of pine cones, and let me tell you, I would much rather have the pine cones anyday. Life for us Sauvé boys has gotten interesting over the last five weeks and we now know what it's like to be a business man and work all afternoon, but hey, it pays and besides, if nothing else it's good exercise.
~Josh :)

Attention to detail is important when you are in business! 

John, hard at work on a job!

We had a slightly belated Mother's day celebration this year. Mom and Dad enjoyed a lovely evening of shopping and dinner at a restaurant on Tuesday.(courtesy of their children) When they returned home, we ate this yummy cake that Faith and Grace made and decorated. (with real Lilac flowers:-)

 

Last night Charity performed in her first flute recital! She and her teacher Mrs. Hall, played a duet of In My Heart. Considering that she has only been playing the flute for about 7 months, Charity did an outstanding job!!!  

Charity and her flute teacher Mrs. Hall. 

Cleaning up the mess! Towels, towels everywhere!!! 

All hands above! Trying to fix the light. 

The first sign of the problem before the line broke! 

Where it all started. On Monday, disaster struck when the hot water pipe under the sink in the master bedroom broke and sent water pouring down the walls and into the kitchen ceiling!! As most of us were in the kitchen at the time preparing some cups of tea, we were rather startled when water started showering out of the light above us! To make a long story short, in the end, after dad had to run all the way downstairs to shut off the hot water heater, we were able to clean it all up and even though at first the light would not work, just last night when we found out that a wire had been missed in the reconnection many chears were heard when the switch was flicked and there was light!!! Needless to say, right after it all started, we got a call for showing the house! Of course we had to say no, but God is still on the Throne and we trust that in His timing our house will sell! In the mean time, we are thanking Him that not too much damage was done and we were able to fix what was needed with out much expense.