Whew, what a year this has been.

Yesterday marked the end of my last semester for my undergraduate degree. *big deep breath out* I actually turned in my last final on Friday and I felt so emotional! It has taken me a long time to get this degree and I am just thrilled. I didn’t think I would be as emotional as I was, I cried moments after turning the paper in. My official graduation date is at the end of August, finally.

I finished the baby quilt I posted previously! This is a pattern from the Little Bits Quilting Bee book and is so easy. I pieced the back using leftover fabric, including the triangles that, if I followed the pattern, would have made a border. I quilted echo lines around the chevrons. The quilting is my favorite part about this one, the baby’s room’s decor is grey and white and chevrons. I thought oh I’m just going to quilt lines echoing the design – instant chevrons!

Forgive the blurry pic, my son jumped behind the quilt and moved it while I was taking a picture.

We have had many people visit us so we are frequent aquarium visitors. The kids favorite thing to do is pretend to be a sea anemone.

And I love turtles so here is a baby.

I recently got a bike and we have been trying to ride daily, or at least several times a week. Riding a bike is a calorie burner! I love it. My husband is thinking he may be able to commute by bike at his next job, so we are researching extras like bags and a different stroller to pull the baby in.

I thought I would have so much free time now that my semester is over, but I spent today running errands and on the phone. I am getting a lot done though. I won’t be riding bike this evening, but the rest of the week I will be able to! I am now on a prepare to move (again), figure out what to put in storage, sew, sew, sew mission.

My emotions seem to sway back and forth depending on what I am working on or scheduling. We have arrived in California! I am glad the stress of the move is over, miss my Mom, and can’t wait until my kids make friends.

We took a few days to drive down from Washington, stopping early enough to have a nice dinner and swim at the hotels we stayed at each night. We also stopped at a couple of quilt shops – one really great one when we were visiting Chris’ adopted parents in the Bay Area!

The first week of being here was the normal getting things set up – arranging for our moving truck to be unloaded, getting the gas and electric turned on, getting the internet turned on, finding the library, unpacking a little. Ever since, we’ve been slowly unpacking and getting set up. We all have library cards but haven’t joined the Y. One kid is registered for school but the other has to wait until next month. JW doesn’t have a preschool but he may not because the cost of daycare/preschools down here, wow. I’m working on getting used to the cost of living, but I’m not sure that will ever happen!

We went to Legoland for the 4th of July. I am fairly certain that this year was the first year in my entire life that I didn’t have fireworks to blow up. I really missed it. Funny how you miss things like that when you don’t have them. As you can see, I don’t know how to use my (new! yay!) iphone camera to take pictures of fireworks.

I have fallen in love with instagram! Are you there? Follow me if you are, my user name there is tsoniki.

A Military Spouse Survey – I haven’t done one of these meme’s in ages, so I figured I’d jump right in. 🙂

Ha, just noticed it looks like JW is smoking something blue in this picture. It’s a whistle that was in his basket.

The boys got new suits for a wedding this summer and they wanted to wear them to church yesterday. Too bad we didn’t get a picture with what JW was really using for his Easter basket – a pumpkin from Halloween. He insisted on transferring everything he got into the pumpkin, even a few swiped candies from his brother and sister.

I hope your celebration was wonderful. Chris emailed and said he didn’t get any eggs, but he did eat duck, so he figured that counted for something.