Disneyland June 2019

We got to go to Disneyland this year. This was the first time for the kids. We invited our home teachers Skylar Morgan and Nathan Erikson to come and give us their Disneyland tips. I'm so glad that we did because they told us great things!

The shuttle ride to disneyland.

The Tiki Room, our first stop.

Tom Sawyer's Island

 Pirates of the Caribbean

 Canoeing

One very cool moment was early in the day when we passed the Indiana Jones ride. It was closed. The workers told us to get a fastpass and that the ride would probably open soon. So we went to get the fastpass and at that moment the ride opened! So we RAN the whole way through the empty areas and waited only for a minute to get on the ride. While we waited the line filled in solid behind us. By the time we were done with the ride the line had filled in completely all the way back to the main entrance. 

Corn dogs for lunch. These corn dogs were so good! Our home teachers said they were amazing. We were really excited to try them, and wish I could get them all the time! I went to Disneyland so many times as a teenager and never experienced these. I understand they have them at Downtown Disney as well as cheese dogs.

Autopia.

Small world.

Toontown.

Splash Mountain. Jordan and I went. Lizzy and Morgan didn't want to go. Jordan and I loved it! Our home teachers told us to go on Splash Mountain last for shorter lines. There was still no line when the ride ended so they let us go again! We didn't even have to get out of the log!

When we were going up the incline just before the drop, Jordan tells the teenagers in front of us, "No turning back now!" It was very cute. The teenagers also gave Jordan a high five for surviving the dop. =) 

We did a penny stretcher after Splash Mountain and then headed home with wet feet. 

The ride back to Jessie's house:

A special quilt for my mom

An idea came to me. I needed to make a quilt for my mom. At first I thought oh, I'll just wait until all my other projects are done. But then I realized that I needed to start working on it NOW and finish it fast because I would be seeing her in a month.

So I started planning. The pattern came to me little by little. It would be made with lots of little squares in heart shapes, of course yellow since that's Mom's favorite color. Then I attended a class at UQSM Utah Quilt and Sewing Marketplace by Carmen Geddes that I had signed up for MONTHS earlier! Carmen taught a grid method used to sew lots of squares together. When I attended the class I had the pattern almost complete. That night I designed the border and finalized the pattern. I bought the fabric and materials the following day at the Quilt Show.

I sewed and sewed and sewed and sewed. I thought of my mom the whole time. It was a special thing to think of her while making her something special for an extended period of time. The quilt top came together and turned out exactly how I envisioned. It was a flow project. The quilt was meant to be made.

The quilt label took longer. I let the idea simmer in my head and it eventually came together perfectly, with tears of course. It was a last minute idea to make it patched and heart shaped

I took it to be quilted by Kathleen Schlesinger. She found the perfect quilting pattern with swirls and hearts. The quilting pattern shows up beautifully on the cuddle "minky" backing.

The wavy binding was also something that I may not have thought about if it weren't for the binding class I took from Carmen Geddes on the same day as the grid class. I used bias binding.

We went to CA in June and we were able to present the quilt to my mom. She loved it. I am so glad that it worked out that I was able to make the quilt and give it to her in person.

88 inches tall by 78 inches wide.