I was able to complete the Teton Summer Wedding quilt top.  It is now with my friend to quilt.  I am excited for her to make it come alive. 

I have had so much going on in my life since last summer.  I was adopted at birth.  I have never known anything about my birth family and really I have never had any inclination to find out.  Well, this all changed last summer.  My kids thought it would be interesting to find my ethnic background out.  So, I spit in the tube and sent my DNA off to ancestry to find out where my long lost family might have originated from.  I found out so much more.  I love my adopted family and really didn't need any of my biological family in my life but it has really been crazy all that I have found out.  It is so much I will tell it a bit at a time.  The first thing I found out is that I am not very interesting.  I am about 85% Western European.  The second thing I found out is that my story is nothing that I thought it was.  As a young teen I imagined that my parents were the homecoming queen and the football star, they had me, were forced to give me up and always regretted it and wondered where I was.  Yes, only in the movies.  This was not my case at all.  I have found my parents.  I was the product of a one night stand, from a truck driver and a married mother of two.  Nothing glamorous.  But, they did right by me and gave me a wonderful home.  It is all a bit overwhelming but I don't regret finding out.  I will post a bit each time about my journey as it has been oh so amazing.  You all have a good week! 

The trees and fish of the Jackson Hole area are completed.  My son is an excellent fly fisherman so I had to include the fish that got away.   In the making of this quilt I challenged myself to use only fabric on hand.  Well, I found out I certainly have a bunch of fabric.  I love working in the primitive style so it is absolutely crazy that so far I have only had to purchase the blue for the water.   The remaining fabrics have all came from my stash.  How I ended up with so many bright, clear colored fabrics I will never know.  It truly is an addiction, beautiful fabric! 

Tonight we are entertaining for the Final Four games.  My Bobby loves what I like to call bad sports.  He will watch everything.  I love the Cubs and the Pacers but he is willing to watch two teams play and we don't even follow them.  My sister and her honey and my cousin and her husband wanted to go out tonight.  I knew Bobby wouldn't give up watching these games, so they are coming to us.  Us gals will open a few bottles of wine and sit in the kitchen/dining room and visit.  Isn't it strange that with friends and family you never run out of things to talk about.  When my parents passed a couple of years ago I brought home my mother's old record albums.  We found a really old one that was a family member that traveled as a singer with Big bands.  We are going to put that on the turntable tonight and enjoy.