Dad's 60th Birthday

My dad turned 60 this past weekend, so my brother, Brian, Dave, Arden and I decided to surprise him by showing up at Mom & Dad's for the weekend. Brian flew down from Annapolis, and then we drove the 2.5 hours to my parent's place. First trip with Arden awake while it was dark out, which she's not a big fan of, but she fell asleep eventually, and then woke up right before the surprise. The weekend was great, lounging around watching a movie, visting with my parent's good friends, and just spending time with the family. Maybe not as action packed as my mom would have liked it, but exactly my dad's speed. He was really touched and grateful that we had come you could tell. Happy Birthday Dad!

More pictures of the weekend here

Baby Quilt from "Aunt" Becky

My good friend Becky hand stiches very beautiful quilts, so back when I was pregnant and embarking on the crib bedding sewing project with my mom, I had asked her if she would use some of the leftover fabric to make Arden a matching quilt. She went above and beyond what I expected. I almost cried when I opened the box and saw what she had made for her. It's all done in batiks, with the exception of the greenish/blue fabric which is actually from Dave's baby quilt that his grandmother made for him. That was his contribution and it was somewhat emotional for him ;-)

The backing fabric of the quilt is the crib bumper fabric, and then the pink/purple tie dye is the same as the crib's dust ruffle and piping. Then in each block, Becky hand stiched the letters for Arden's name. Arden Drenzek fits perfectly. Then as an added personal touch she got the words for the purification mantra that we do in my yoga class and ironed it on to piece of fabric and it is sewn under the K block.


The whole thing is absolutely gorgeous. I was scared to even put Arden on it thinking she would ruin it, but Becky assured me that I was not allowed to hang it on the wall, that's not a baby quilt is for. Arden loves it and I'm sure it will become more and more special as the years go by.

Thanks Aunt Becky!!!

New Blog!

So I'm jumping on the Blogger bandwagon. Now I have yet another internet outlet to share our family stories with the world! I'm sure everyone is thrilled!

Actually, I plan to have this blog replace the baby website that we created during my pregnancy, because I think it will be much easier to navigate and I can link our photo flickr site to it easier. And I like blogs. Our Flickr site link is over there ----> to the right and it has most all of our pictures of Arden's activites. I've kinda backlogged and added entries since Arden's arrival back in May. But as you notice the more current entries have more detail.

So I hope our family and friends enjoy our updates!