A bit of this and that

I feel as though we've mostly been playing catch up around the house ever since visiting my parents.  We came back to two weeks of very scary weather, and yes even had to go in the tornado shelter once. I'm so glad we can afford to have one of those.  It's not my favorite place to hang out, but it certainly gives me piece of mind when we need it.

Since then I have been immersed in charity projects for the tornado victims in my quilt guild.  I'm so happy to be part of helping others, but it has been quite overwhelming as I am kind of the point person on the projects.  At one point I had over 120 quilts in my guest room!!!

But, we've still managed to squeeze in a bit of fun in the last month...

 We discovered this exceptionally large toad in our yard.  Gabriel was thrilled and was talking so sweetly to it.  Although...it did pee on him.  While at first disgusted, when I explained that it was a defense mechanism he went back to fascinated.  Oh, my little Jeff Corwin...

We went out to take pictures of the raffle quilts with a friend of mine, and there was a pond full of massive koi.  Once again...he was fascinated.  Lorelai a bit intrigued.  This isn't a great picture, but I love her boots.  They're so her!

We have also been doing some art.  Gabriel is trying to decide which picture we should mail to my cousins Brad and Johanna as a thank you for their lovely gifts at my parents house.  This was a fun one...various paint colors and using the flat eraser ends of pencils to make images with "pointillism."

Mostly they had fun seeing what all they could do with the paint and erasers.  I actually did the project I set out for us to do...

But, I guess it's really all about having fun together and letting the creative juices flow. :)