New hobbies

It's been a busy few weeks for me. I am glad I have absolutely nothing on my schedule for this week, except playing with the kids!

Last week our Relief Society started creating a quilt. We were each assigned to make our own quilt block to contribute. Not having had much training, and even less success, with my sewing machine, I was daunted to say the least. With the help of some lovely ladies, here is what I managed to create:

I was so inspired, I decided to take up sewing and especially quilting for my new hobby. I started with sewing the badges on mine and DJ's scout shirts. Well, good thing I got a new seam ripper, because I didn't have any help with the scout shirts and it's going to take a few tries to get it looking good.

The other new hobby is hiking. I realized today it's not such a new hobby, because we did a few hikes while we were in Erie. Utah is a great place for hiking and I recently purchased a couple of books on great hikes with kids.

We started with the Jordan River trail. Since it is less than a mile from our house, it seemed the logical place to start. Saturday morning, we got all laced up and packed our water and snacks and headed out.

I think we went about a mile south along the river, ate our oranges and ZBars and headed home. There were lots of friendly walkers, bikers, and joggers sharing the trail with us. And a few dogs. It's a paved trail, which made it nice and easy for us to take the stroller for William and Amanda.