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Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys...

Ah, it's that time of the year again. Abbyville Rodeo Days 2008. A day of fun and sun, parades, ham n' beans, barbecue, bingo, and lots of rodeo action. I've been to the Abbyville Rodeo almost every year since I've moved to Kansas. It helps that my in-laws live just a block away from the rodeo grounds.

This year was the Munchkin's third year. It seems strange that one of the first posts I ever wrote on this blog was about his first rodeo, and the overalls I made for him. Wow, have my sewing skills improved since then! When I take out those old overalls and look at the seams, the buttons, I actually wonder how I completed it in the first place!

Well, another year, and another sewing adventure. This time, a cowboy shirt with yoke, pockets, and buttoned cuffs. Next time I decide to do something like this, take me out and shoot me. I finished up the shirt at 2am the day of the rodeo! But with the hat, and the boots, we had our own little cowboy. Maybe next year he'll be ready for mutton-busting (for those who don't know, mutton-busting is the little-kid version of bull riding--riding on a sheep!).

Happy weekend, y'all!

Mother's Day Shopping Spree

Ok, technically today is not Mother's Day. At least, not the "official" day.
But it might as well have been, because I had a tremendous treat.

For Mother's Day, hubby and munchkin gave me cards and chocolate. Better yet, he also told me he'd ordered the ruffler foot attachment for my sewing machine. Oh, and here's $50 to blow on fabric. And I thought he wasn't paying attention! Apparently, after I came back Saturday morning from a (cancelled) sewing class at our local sewing machine shop, he and the munchkin went back and placed the order for the attachment (after hearing me talk about it for "at least two months").

But, this being Kansas, no fabric stores are open on Sunday. And he had to work late yesterday.

Today, I ran out of the school, jumped in my car, and drove 20 minutes north to this wonderful, wonderful quilt store, the Button Hole in McPherson, KS. Seventh heaven...aisles of fabric, patterns, notions, and a coffee shop attached! I didn't know where to start. But we do have a rodeo coming up this weekend, so my first priority was finding an appropriate western shirt pattern and fabric for the munchkin. The pattern I chose is the Kwik Sew 3146.

Here's the haul I finally ended up carting out the door.

And to think, this place has been here all along...

I Heart Freddy

In case you don't get the chance to listen to Kidd Kraddick in the Morning (a syndicated morning radio show out of Texas), you need to check out their link for Freddy.

Read Freddy's story, then download the really catchy, can't help but love it single, "Defying Gravity" and let's get Freddy on the music map!

2nd Blogoversary

Wow, what a revelation.

Has it really been two years? I feel like I'm still new to the blogging world.

Some of the things that have happened in the past two years...

*Buying a new sewing machine
*Moving twice, and buying two homes
*The Ice Storm of December 2007
*Being diagnosed as Bipolar
*Switched from a SAHM to a Working Outside the Home Mom
*Water softener leak and massive under-kitchen-sink-leak disasters
*The death of my Grandma Tiedt, my last surviving grandparent
*I learned to sew all over again

And, as of today, my hubby is now a Sergeant First Class (E7 rank in the Army). I was a little disappointed, as munchkin and I could not attend the big event. His new unit is three hours away, and gas prices are too prohibitive for a drive out and back, especially in our truck! But they did take photos with a digital camera, so hopefully I'll be able to post those soon.