5 weeks in Michigan

Josh has been traveling a lot, and has more trips coming up, so o decided to head home.

I came home to enough packages I thought it might be Christmas!!!!

One of those packages was this beautiful fabric, designed by Minick and Simpson who Lives in Michigan!!! And this fabric line is based on Michigan.

I babysat my sisters kids and we went out to pizza and it was amazing... and we had a great time, see the shirt the older one is wearing, I handed that down to her, and my uncle handed it down to me... 

I got to see one of my best friends announce her second pregnancy!

I got to meet one of the members of the online quilt group I'm in :)

My parents took me out to an early birthday dinner since we won't be together for my real birthday and they gave me this book I have been wanting :)

And I got these two books, my first books of grad school.

I was able to see the beach and have a great day with my sister and 6 of my nieces.

I may have also gotten a slight sun burn because I missed a spot with the sunscreen... oops.

I ran a 10 mile race while I was home, I was so happy to run it, I have heard about it most of my life. It was a tough race,  but good. It was fun to run past places I knew. And the medal HUGE

And later that day my cousin got married and it rained the whole afternoon and it was cold.

Saw some good friends

And my parents went on vacation and left me in charge of the house.

And being a good daughter I mowed the lawn and picked the berries...

I also dyed my hair for the first time ever!!!

And I spent a lot of time working on my fresh quilt, but I didn't finish it sadly, mostly quilted though... I tried to get it done so I could give it to my parents for their anniversary... maybe next year.

I met a friend and we picked apples and ate donuts!!! I love cider donuts!! 

And tried to catch this snake for my parents to no avail, I think it's hibernating in the garage for the winter!!! Eek!!! I even set rat traps! They said they didn't catch anything when they got home :(

Which was a learning experience, I had never set a mouse or a rat trap before, so thankfully my brother had been over earlier and set up one of the rat traps, so I could use it as an example.

Met up with more friends and hung out

And finally, 

Headed home

Day 461 & 462

Sunday I went for a run and other than that hung out at home. On Monday I convinced some of my friends to go to a silver store some of the other expats had been talking about.

I needed a cuff to cover my terrible watch tan line.

I picked this up for about $40

I also got my personal statement back from a friend that had been editing it for me... It came it's a lot more red than I expected!

Now I need to work on this...

Day 325

My client came over and saw the quilt today, she wants it two rows shorter. So I need to take the rows off... We talked about how she wants is quilted, and the backing and border, now to pick out more fabric. Yey!

Then I got distracted after my MAT studying and my Spanish practicing with filling out my application.

I have a couple things I need to ask the school about my address, and my next step is to write a personal statement... Yikes! Why do I think I would make a good librarian?

Josh had to work late, I picked him up at 8pm, so instead of making dinner we went out and then we watched a show and headed to bed. We are super exciting...