Birthday Quiet Book

This weekend this cute little girl turned a year old. She is Avery my "great" niece and is one of the happiest babies that I have ever been around and just soooo cute. I wanted to come up with something special for her birthday and of course like I always do I started trying to think of something that I could make her.
I have always wanted to make thoses cute little quiet books but felt like maybe Avery wasn't quite old enough for the one with all the different activities in them. So I went to Etsy.com and typed in quiet book patterns and came up with this pattern by SW Designs. It happened to be Feb. 29th...Leap day and they were having a sale. I love sales so I ordered this cute toddler quiet book called "On The Farm". Best yet it was sent digitally to my email so I didn't have to wait for it. This picture was the book after it was all put together.

I sat down one day when I really should have been doing several other things to look at it and start organizing fabrics etc. and found it rather addicting and was finished with the whole book in no time at all. It was so easy. Here is a set of the first pages.

And here is the set of the last four pages. The chicken and the cow were my favorite and after this picture was taken I added a bow onto the cows bell.

After getting it all put together I decided it needed 1 more page...a back cover I guess. So early the same morning I was to pass it onto Avery I put together this flower page. You can't see it but around the flower I wrote...Made for Avery with love by Aunt Mindy...Happy Birthday and then the date. Avery loves books so I hope she enjoys this one too as much as I enjoyed making it for her

My story should end here but much to my surprise when I received the email copy of this pattern Shelly Wallace, the author, said that if I post this onto my blog I will get another one of her quiet book patterns for free. You can't ask for anything better than that for a good deal. Thanks Shelly...now the hard part...which one? If any others of you out there are interested you can find all Shellys cute quiet book patterns in her etsy shop at www.shelleywallace.etsy.com.
Happy 1st Birthday Avery!

Season End

Hunter and Connor finished a successful baseball season this past weekend. They both were really fun to watch. You could see alot of improvement in Hunters team by the end of the season. His games were fun to watch and starting to look like real baseball. The boys learned so much.

I love this picture of him watching the ball. Great game Hunt!

Connors team was fun to watch too. He always had a smile on his face when he played. He had a little different strategy as he ran from one base to the next...he usually did a loop or two into the outfield between bases. Didn't really matter because the little guys on the opposing team usually were still struggling to get the ball and figure out where it goes next by the time he would reach the base. They were so cute to watch.

So it's time to say goodbye to baseball. Time for a short sports break before moving onto spring football and soccer. These are busy boys! Good job guys!