Senior Dinner Dance

At the last minute, Rachel decided to go to the Senior Dinner/Dance with a bunch of her friends.  She had a good time and they took some cute pictures.  I'm assuming you will all recognize Rachel, but if not, she is the one on the far left.  :-)

Sewing Machine Cover

You may remember that I am slowly trying to finish all my craft and sewing projects that I have stashed away in my craft room.  Well, I finished another one!!!   Woohoo!!

This was a short and sweet one but lots of fun.  It's a sewing machine cover.  It's patchwork so I got to piece together some cute fabrics and then I practiced some free-motion machine quilting.  It was a little difficult at first because I couldn't get the tension right with my new presser foot but then I figured it out and it was pretty fun.  I don't think I could do large quilts since my sewing machine area is limited, but it may work well for small projects.

Cruise to Mexico and More!

David is turning 50 on June 11th of this year so I surprised him with a cruise to Mexico, Honduras and Belize.  We went in April since I found a good deal on the cruise.  We had a fantastic time!  I ended up just leaving my camera in the room so almost all the pictures were taken by David on his cell phone.  We just focused on enjoying what we were seeing and doing.  We didn't get to take any pictures of the cave tubing we did in Belize since we were in the water riding on a tube through a giant cave.  It was really neat though and we would highly recommend that.

After the cruise, we spent a couple of days visiting David's sister, Julie, and her family in Ocean Springs, MS.  Since our cruise was out of New Orleans it was a quick drive to get to Julie's.  We had a great time there and loved spending time with them.  Thanks Bahr family for having us!

This trip also took me to 3 new states (Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama) and 2 new countries (Honduras and Belize).  I only need to visit North Carolina, South Carolina and Wisconsin to have visited all 50 states.  I guess I will start planning my next trip.  :-)

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Hail Storm

Yesterday we had the biggest hail storm I have ever seen.  I had to go pick up Rebecca in the middle of it and it was so bad on the freeway that many cars were just pulling over to wait for it to pass.  It literally flooded one section of the freeway.  I thought it was rather exciting and liked all the thunder and lightning.

The bad part was that it destroyed my yard.  I posted some pictures below but the saddest part was my garden.  I just planted some new little cucumber and tomato plants a few days ago.  They are pretty much gone.  I'm so glad I am not depending on my garden for my food or I think we might starve.  It's also nice that I can go to the nursery and get more plants and replant.

HAPPY SPRING!

That is all hail on the road.  

 Sad tomato plant

 Sad cucumber plant.  Pretty much gone

Saturday morning in my flower garden

Saturday afternoon after the hail storm

Driving - Rainbows - Flowers..... It's SPRING!!

It's been a while since I posted but not because of lack of material, just lack of time.  I'll post at some later date the pictures of the trip David and I took to Mexico.  Today I post a few pictures to capture what's been going on in the Powell house.

Rebecca has her permit and is loving driving.  She does a good job too!!

I spend lots of time watching soccer and therefore, I get to enjoy God's beautiful creations!  I saw this rainbow while in Orem at Rebecca's soccer game.  I wish the picture could capture how big and bright it was.

My iris have begun blooming.  So far just the purple ones are out but hopefully the rest will bloom soon.  I also planted most of my garden!  Woohoo!

On a sad note, the blue fountain I built last year needed rebuilding.  So I improved, fixed and added some nice rocks and it turned out great.... FOR ONE DAY!  Now it keeps running out of water which must mean there is a leak.  Which means I have to take the whole thing apart to find and fix the leak.  Yikes!  Wish me luck and remind me not to build anymore fountains.