Chair Rencarnaited

Looking ahead to a week away from Jeff (where he was doing pass or fail and you are out tests everyday) for EFMB, I was planning to be bored and nervous. I needed a project and with Sprout moving into our room I also needed a chair.
I freeagained one...




A little worn but cozy and serviceable I drug it into the house. I looked up slip covers, mostly because brown chenille is not my favorite, nothing looked good.
Think, think, think "I could make a slip cover orrrrrr I could reupholster it!!!!!"
After lots of google and utube research I had a plan; take all the fabric apart; use the pieces as pattern pieces and then sew the new ones back together restuffing and attaching as I go.
Nessasary tools




I took lots of inprocess pictures in hopes I could follow them backwards when putting it back together.




















Getting amazing fabric I love!




Then cut, sew and stuff it back together.




































Love it!
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Max's First Scoccer Season

 

The Award Ceremony! 

Memorial Day

 This Memorial Day we went to the Airborne Museum in Fayettville. No pictures of the inside but an amazing museum to visit! They had wonderful displays outside including a flag memorial and the Budweiser Clydesdale horses and wagon. (Gwen was a cheese monkey most of the time and refused to be in any pictures)

 Waiting for the horses

 Stone in recognition of Jeff's unit (the older version)

 Stone in recognition of the 82nd

 Both of these are memorials to soilders killed in action on Jeff's deployment to Afghanistan

 

Happy Ending with the Budweiser Horse Team

 

EFMB (No it does not stand for Efficient Fast Meticulous Barbarian)

EFMB is the Expert Field Medic Badge and it highest level skill set badge a person in the Medical field can achieve during peacetime.
It consists of  a 60 question test which is quite specific ie. which kind of rat droppings are from which rats that tend to carry which diseases, 3 "lanes" the practical skill sets, both night and day land navigation and a 12 mile ruck with 45lbs pack which must be completed in under 3 hours. Every step of the process is pass/fail and one fail disqualifies you.
Jeff spent a week training out in the field and another week in the field for the testing. It was nasty humid and there was a thunderstorm almost every day, except for the night land navigation then the storm happened at night.
Today he successfully finished the ruck and received his badge!
We are so proud

Marbles Museum

Trains and more

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Southern Living

After a month of searching for my parasol and sitting in the blazing sun at Max's soccer games with out one, I broke down and bought one. And since I was already getting one for myself I figured I had better get one for Gwen too.
Always risky to buy a product you have not handled/seen in person but this one paid off!












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