Sarah playing flute

Sarah with her flute

It is important to practice the flute in front of a mirror for proper posture and lip placement. Sarah has taken a couple lessons from a swim team peer who has played for 3 years. Kate has helped Sarah learn to make a sound and learn several notes. She is starting to read music (something she wouldn't do when I tried to teach her piano...she always played by ear).

Rented her flute from a Silverdale store. Some of each month's rental goes toward the eventual purchase of a flute (or other instrument) if she wants.

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Shoo Fly Pie Quilt

Sarah's second quilt, the first with triangles, and the first human size quilt! (The first quilt she made was for her doll and was in intense rich colors.) Here are some photos as it went together:

Rolling to remove excess threads:
Sarah had a couple of photos taken on her camera also and Bryce and Sarah checked to see if they came out okay!

AHHHH....the end of a successful project!!!

Sarah's quilt

After working on her quilt at Aunt Bev's a few weeks ago, the quilt made a trip to Heidi (the quilter). Soon Sarah and Heidi were emailing back and forth to each other. Here is a recent email:

From: Heidi
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:08:55 -0400
Subject: photos!
To: Sarah

Alright Sarah girl, here are the photos of your wonderful quilt. Yes, the thread is aqua although it's hard to tell in the picture. Hope you like how it turned out. I will get it to your aunt Bev soon and then you get to do the binding!

Hash Brown Casserole

Grandma gave Sarah a Teen cook book this past week and Sarah tried out one of the recipes at Aunt Bev's house---it was called Hash Brown Casserole.

We had it for breakfast and it was an acclaimed success! The Taste Testers only suggested minor adjustments. For example Bryce suggested adding some bacon and Uncle Don (who LOVES onions) suggested adding MORE onions.

We were able to save a small portion and took it over to Grandma for lunch and it reheated well!