sewing, biking, and graduation?

with a little help and inspiration from pinterest, and my favorite movie fantastic mr. fox, i present you with a little evening project to be proud of.

they were originally intended for some little goobers that we get to see next month, but i'm getting more and more attached to these... maybe i'll just have to call these ones 'practice rounds' and sew up better looking foxes for la nièce et le neveu... ha! i wish i spoke french.

(tutorial found here)

please ignore the fact that the bottoms aren't sewn yet. i'm not very confident of my hand sewing skills yet.

oh. i neglected to mention that i made a certain baby ellie some shoes last week.

speaking of sewing, i also want to sew a quilt, preferably one that looks like this. too bad i don't know a single thing about quilting.

moving on. rexburg has finally gotten its act together. today was a comfy 75 degrees, so we went on a bike ride to the duck pond. (turns out, we had a lot of old bread laying around.) ah, i dread the day when we won't have a/c in this hot weather. oh wait, that's now. blah.

a good portion of my BYU friends graduated this past weekend. so when the onslaught of facebook graduation pictures started to show up, it made me feel a little bit reminiscent. has it really been four years since i met them all? and they're all graduated now, moving on to bigger and better things in life. i'm so proud of my friends. but anyway, mostly i did a lot of reminiscing by looking at all my pictures from 2008 and giggled.

 for my 18th birthday, tara, melissa, corina, and kara cut out hundreds of neon paper hearts and spread them over my bed. i still have all those hearts at home in alaska. (i could be wrong about who it was. it was supposed to be a surprise but i accidentally walked in on the cookson twins during the process.) 

first sunday at college! melissa, my first roommate elizabeth, and i waiting for relief society interviews. it was here that the interviewer lady loudly asked me "oh, is this your first time to the mainland?" and it took all that i had to not loudly laugh in her face. this, however, did not stop everybody outside the room.

happy sunday!