January is my favorite month

Chloe helped me pick out the backing for this quilt for my friend. We picked a minky pattern and it is so beautiful on the back of this lovely quilt. Back story, a dear friend of mine from South Carolina lost her mom to breast cancer last year. She had been in the process of making this quilt when she passed and my friend reached out to me late last year wondering if I might be able to finish it for her. Sight unseen I agreed without a second thought. Of course I could do that for her! Well she sent me the quilt and I discovered that it was this double wedding ring quilt, which is a REALLY hard quilt pattern! Everything is cut on the bias so it pulls very strangely. Sewing curves in quilting is a rather advanced skill. It was a bit daunting but I consulted my trusty Google and found a lady that did a tutorial that was incredibly helpful. And of course I have my mother-in-law here too and she's one expert quilter, has been doing it for 30 plus years, so she helped so much. 

Well I finished this beauty last night. I quilted it with a bubbly ring sort of design and I really love how it turned out. 

I'm going to go shopping today to find some matching hot pink fabric so that color will pop and put the binding on and get it in the mail to my friend. I'm really proud of this project. 

We haven't gotten out much lately, what with Covid and all. We just got comfy at home and don't do a lot. But Saturday I decided we needed some fresh air and sunshine, so I got the kids away from their screens and took them to this super fun park in South Jordan. They had a blast. 

Chloe and Genevieve wanted me to take pictures of their hair after Grandma did it yesterday. She actually did a really beautiful side braid on Genevieve, but that had come out by the evening and she did a bun instead and Genevieve liked that too. 

I have a lovely group of ladies that I workout with on Saturdays and on Sunday afternoons we take a walk. This week we hiked up one of the mountains in Herriman to drop off our FiA rock at this little rock garden on the trail. Super fun and I dearly love these ladies. 

January is my favorite month. It's my birthday, my anniversary, and Spencer's birthday. I know most people just think January is in the depths of winter and depressing, but I've always loved it. Bill and the kids convinced me to open up my birthday gift early. He got me this foot massager and goodness, it is lovely. I'm using it as I type this post. Pretty sure we're going to wear this thing out from use. Haha! He did good. We went out to dinner and did some shopping Saturday night to celebrate our anniversary. 12 years strong and happy as ever to have married such an amazing guy. 

I got this hand massage gun last week too for some hand therapy after the one my therapist recommended ended up kind of cheap and junky. Turns out this one is total overkill for hand massage, but holy cow, so great for massaging literally anything else. I'm sure we'll also wear this thing out from use. It's wonderful.