Needle and Thread Society

I am now an official member of the "Needle and Thread Society". All I had to do was show up and pay my money and be taught :) This cute little house and tree were the result of my first day of class. We learned two stitches and I looked up a third on the Internet to learn to do the leaves a little nicer. I am extremely pleased with how it turned out and I must tell you I just can't wait to learn more. This is exactly the sort of thing I have wanted to learn for ages. I love having some sort of hand stitching to do when I am too tired to do anything but sit at the end of the day. It relaxes me in a way few things inside my house can. 

The class meets once a month and each month we will get 15 motifs  and a small project as well as extra homework for those of us wanting to make a quilt with all these beautiful patterns. I just LOVE it and I really can't wait until the next class. The house is wool felt applique on a wool hexagon and the tree is made entirely of stitching.  Anybody here local want to take this class with me? It's not to late to join. The first "official" class is at the end of March.

Enoch Gives His Life Over to God-A Special Day

March 2, 2013 is a day we will always remember in our family. It is the day Enoch gave his life to the Lord by following in His footsteps and being baptized. We are so very proud of him for making this decision and choosing to follow our Savior on the path to eternal life. 

 Waiting for the baptism to start with family and friends. We were so blessed to have most of the Mecham's come from out of state to be there and many other family and friends who came all the way to Heber to be with us for this special day. We love you all and you helped make this day special for all of us. Thank you.

 Enoch, Ethne, Ellie, and part of the beautiful Merritt :)

 After the services we got a group picture of family and friends.  Front Row: Ellie, Olivia, Grace, Ethne, Enoch, Ezra, Elijah and Jonah. Row Two: Matt, Christine(who is hiding), Merritt, Jess, Chelsea, Mom, Dad, Naomi, Grandmommy and Will. Row Three: Bryce, Greg, Camilla, Grand-daddy, and Mandi. Back Row: David Jr. and Dexter, Neil and Mark. We feel extremely blessed to have each and every one of these people in our lives. They are all such a blessing to our family.

 Enoch said that he felt SO happy when he was baptized and received the Holy Ghost. He said he still felt like the same person but he felt clean and happy and good. We were all so happy for him. Enoch and Ezra played the song "Baptism" on their violins as a part of the service and we were so proud of them for sharing their talents with us and bringing in the spirit with their beautiful music.

 Enoch with the Primary President of the Lake Creek 2nd Ward. We are sort of just passing through this ward and will be in another ward in another 6 weeks or so but she was very helpful in getting everything arranged for the ward baptism.  There was one other little girl baptized from our ward with him. We all met together in the beginning and Grand-mommy gave a talk with a little help from Ethne on Baptism. Then Enoch and Brandi(the other little girl) were baptized by their fathers and after that we split off into two groups and each child had the rest of the service just for them. (we have grand-mommy to thank for that as it almost didn't happen)

 After the service we talked outside for a while and took pictures and then eventually those who had to head home left and the rest of us came to my parents house and had a little luncheon. These are the four quiche's I made and there were two more(not pictured) Camilla made. They were wonderful. The first two are tomato, spinach, bacon and the other two are leek, asparagus. All have a hard vintage cheddar and Gouda cheese as well. Yummy. Camilla's had capsicum, eggplant, cream & cheddar cheese, celery and onion. All were delicious.

 Trifles I made for desert. Imagine layers of pound cake, berries macerated in orange juice and sugar, whipped cream with lemon zest, vanilla, cream cheese, and icing sugar garnished with more fresh berries and mint and you can imagine a little piece of heaven.

 Come and Eat!!!

 Thank you Enoch for your sweet spirit and for being a part of our family. We all love you so much and are so proud of your decision to be baptized  You are such a good boy with so much potential and your parents and grandparents and Aunts and Uncles and  a whole lot of other people love watching you live up to that potential. Always remember this day and how you felt and how it built your testimony of your loving Heavenly Father, your Savior Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost.

Addition: Today is fast Sunday and Enoch is fasting one meal. He prayed with Garrett and I to open his fast and although he is really hungry he feels good about doing it. He prayed and is fasting with us for some big family things and I am happy to have a son who is a part of that this month. He also wrote down his testimony this morning so that he can have the courage to bare his testimony in sacrament meeting today. He said he thought he could do it if we got there early and sat in the front so he didn't have to walk all the way to the front :)

Grateful For a Loving Heavenly Father

I am feeling very blessed today. I have put a lot of thought and effort into making sure that tomorrow, Enoch's baptism day, is well thought out and special. I want a day that is full of the spirit and not stressful so I wanted to plan it all out way ahead of time and have everything done so that tomorrow is spent thinking of the ordinance and not the extras. I'm not going to pretend I don't like the extras, but they aren't whats important. The important thing is that Enoch is giving his life over to the Lord. He is following in the footsteps of his Savior by entering into the waters of baptism. I am so happy and so proud of him and I just want everything to be the best it can be.

Sooo, I ordered two quiche pans and a few other things for Enoch's baptism luncheon tomorrow and the default address in Garrett Fry's Amazon account switched to an address here in UT that we haven't lived at in years. I should have double checked the address but forgot to in my haste to get these things ordered. The pans were delivered Wed. and I found out where they were delivered yesterday. When I found out what had happened I was sick with thoughts of-what am I going to do now? And well I hope those people are honest and don't just keep it all. I told my mom what had happened and she said My dad and brother Neil were in that area right then and I should call and ask them to go by. I called and texted and they ended up driving by the old address for me and the package was just sitting on the porch with G's name on it, so they brought it home to me :) I am so glad to know someone was looking after the little stuff for me. I am so grateful it didn't get sent to one of our last addresses in the states because my pans would have been in CA. I am also grateful the package was on the porch and not inside where they couldn't get to it. So many things could have gone MORE wrong than they did and I am grateful Heavenly Father looks out for us even in the little things that mean a lot to us. Tomorrow would have been just as special without quiche pans, but the fact that we have the quiche pans, and therefore should have beautiful quiche, just makes it all the more sweet to me.