Finished my Chevron Quilt

With my quiet fall, I was able to finish my chevron quilt. I started it in March with the intention of finishing it in time to use on my bed for the summer, but .... well we see how that turned out. But here it is in all it's queen-size glory!

It's Been Quiet Lately

Well, I have only a few, small adventures to report for the past six or so weeks. It's been kind of nice to have a lower-key few weeks. And it's allowed me to get obsessed with family history again! And to finish my quilt top.

This is the one and only pic I took from when Joni and Whitney (and Teri, Mom, and Jill too) were in town to shop for a wedding dress for Whitney. After we finished shopping on Saturday (in the major downpour rainstorm of the century!) we went to the BYU Museum of Art to see their exhibit on the costumes of the cinema. I just couldn't resist taking this picture when all three of them were on their phones, inside waiting out the rain, but just as I took the picture Joni looked up and ruined the pic! :) 

I planted a Gerbera Daisy in one of my pots this year . . . it had a single bloom on it when I bought the plant, and then it didn't bloom again until the fall. So I had to document the later bloom for which I had labored fruitlessly all summer! 

Mike and I went on a long mountain bike ride on October 11 with some friends up around the Fifth Water trail and saw all these beautiful fall colors and this water fall by the Diamond Fork hot springs. 

And then on October 18, Mike and I and one of his friends went mountain biking up Big Springs and Corner Canyon where I got this beauty of a fat lip (and cut gums, and later a very swollen cheek). I just took a small, embarrassingly dumb tumble but my bike must know I'm looking to replace it because it popped me in the kisser with the end of one handlebar.

For Halloween, Mike and I carved these pumpkins. It's my first time breaking out of the triangle-eyes-and-toothy-grin carving job - I did the cat. Then on actual Halloween night, we hung out at my place and I made some pumpkin pie bars and dinner in a pumpkin and we watched a scary flick. I told Mike that if he wasn't going to answer the door to pass out candy to the kids and I was going to do it alone then I wanted to do it at my house where I'd get to see the kids I knew and love! (We spent Halloween at his house last year, and I was the only one answering the door to all these stranger kids I didn't know.) But . . . I bought way too much candy for only about 7 groups of kids. Bah.