Stitching History

Free Audio Book!

2009-03-10T10:47:00.000-07:00

Behemoth.com is offering a FREE audio book until March 31st! We highly reccommend this book and know that your whole family will enjoy it! At Behemoth.com you can easily download their MP3 tracks and put them on your iPod! This would be a wonderful book to listen to as a family on a road trip or even just doing everyday household chores such as folding laundry! I personally like to listen to books on tape while I sew. Today I am going to listen to this book while I paint our kitchen a cheery, buttery yellow color! Spring is just around the corner!!!

About the Book:
Ten P's in a Pod

"Join a family of ten on a million-mile journey of evangelism, home education and discipleship.

Journaling his family's travels, experiences, and ministry, Arnold Pent III (the third of eight children) first published Ten P's in a Pod in 1965 at the age of twenty-one. You'll learn of his father's commitment to family Bible reading, Scripture memorization, and singing together, as well as enjoy all the antics one might expect from piling eight children into two old cars and hitting the road to take the gospel message anywhere they found a group willing to listen.

Gather the family around and hear the story read by the author himself (now in his sixties) and enjoy this heart-warming story sure to encourage you and your family. The Good Soil is a one-hour audio program featuring interviews with all eight siblings, highlighting their thoughts on their upbringing and their advice for the next generation of parents seeking to give their children a Biblical heritage."

To get your free audio book download please visit this link: http://behemoth.com/album/52746/

Baby!!!!!!

2008-10-21T14:12:00.000-07:00

Yes! David and I are expecting a baby in June! :D :D :D

The day is drawing nigh...

2008-08-22T17:02:00.000-07:00

...even though at times it doesn't feel that way!

The Lord has blessed the wedding planning amazingly and I finished sewing my wedding dress early this week! Today Kami, Mom, Annie, and I made all the party favors, almond bark covered pretzles! Since we've got all the large things finished, time seems to have slowed down a bit for me. I am sure that after this Sunday the days will start going a lot faster.

I do have some more packing to do, which I will work on some more this evening.

I'm going to be staring a new private blog where I'll post pictures of David and I and what we're up to after we're married, so if you're a friend and want to be added, just let me know!!!

(Ha! I'm going to have to change my user name to Mrs. S now...instead of Miss C.!!!)

Marriage License

2008-07-04T18:01:00.000-07:00

Marriage License by Norman Rockwell

Engaged!!!

2008-06-25T18:17:00.001-07:00

Goin' Courtin'

2008-05-21T23:12:00.000-07:00

:big smile:

Cousin Herman

2008-05-20T09:16:00.000-07:00

The Fairchilds had a visit from their cousin Herman this weekend...

Packing...

2008-05-14T10:20:00.000-07:00

Things are getting really busy around here!!! We're ironing, sewing, polishing, packing, packing, packing, writing lists, checking things off lists, cooking, more packing, organizing, and picking up things at the store for our first Civil War reenactment of the year!!!

I can hardly wait....

TODAY is the day of Salvation

2008-05-06T12:18:00.000-07:00

Highland Fling!

2008-04-28T21:07:00.000-07:00

New Shoes!

2008-04-15T13:24:00.000-07:00

New look- Coming Soon!

2008-04-03T21:32:00.001-07:00

Kitchen improvemts!

2008-04-03T19:30:00.000-07:00

I wanted to share a few pictures of a project I did with Dad the night before Easter!
We put bead board under our kitchen bar/counter area! I'm really excited with how it turned out!
These pictures are before we stained it with Water Lox.

To see some more home-improvement projects, hop on over to THIS POST by my sister!

Polishing Silver

2008-03-24T17:05:00.000-07:00

I really enjoy polishing silver, for a few reasons...
First, because this was my grandmother's silver and it's special for me to be polishing something that was her's.
I also enjoy it becuase it's kind of like a treasure hunt! It's very rewarding to see what some elbow grease (and silver polish, of course) can do to make something so dull and grimey turn into something so gorgeous and pretty for everyone to enjoy!
Coffee just somehow tastes a little better coming out of this...

Before~

After~

Music Videos...

2008-03-10T17:11:00.000-07:00

Here's the original music video...

and a spoof that's pretty funny...

Latest Fairchild Family Film!

2008-02-27T13:59:00.000-08:00

Here's our latest film...
The Traveling Salesman

You can view the BLOOPERS and our past productions on our blog: http://www.fairchildfamilyfilms.blogspot.com/

Breakfast Surprise!

2008-02-18T19:28:00.000-08:00

Yumm! :o) I made "Breakfast Surprise" last Saturday. I just had to snap a shot of it as it was coming out of the oven!

(Thanks for the recipe, Ava!)

EDITED TO ADD:

After much interest in this lovely, delicious breakfast I am posting the recipe below:

Breakfast Surprise

Preheat oven to 400

1/2 c. butter

2-3 apples, sliced

1 and 1/2 c. milk

1 c. flour

6 eggs

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

3 Tbl. sugar

Instructions:

Melt butter in 9"x13" pan in oven until it sizzles; add sliced apples- watch so they don't burn-bake quickly. (check after 10 min.) Stir together rest of ingredients (only 1/2 tsp. of the cinnamon). Pour over baked apples and bake 30 (or so) min.

Sprinkle the cinnamon on top and drizzle honey or syrup if desired. We sprinkle with the juice of a lemon and powdered sugar! Serve immediately~enjoy!

Happy Valentine's Day!

2008-02-14T07:51:00.000-08:00

Annie and I made some special shortbread cookies for Valentine's Day!

A Day on the Town...with a John Deere

2008-02-05T12:32:00.000-08:00

So, first we had to go to Chevron to gas (or should I say diesel?) up!

Then, how could we resist going to go get some coffee? By the way...I took most of these pictures and Dad took one. :o)

Breakfast at Huckabee's

2008-01-07T14:14:00.000-08:00

Ok, I couldn't resist! I had to post another one. :o)

To the tune of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something

Lyrics-

You said you've got nothing in common
With the candidates to choose from
And you're losing heart
You'll say the Big Three don't do it for you
Their negative ads bore youAnd you just might stay home

So I said, "What about voting for Huckabee?"
She said, "I think I remember that man,
And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked him."
And I said, "Well, he's the best hope we've got."

You see he's the only one who's for them
Faith, Family and Freedom
In the right order
So what now?
It seems he's the best for us
He's even got Chuck Norris
Telling us how it's gonna be

(When the eyes of the ranger fall upon youYou better like Mike)

So I said, "What about voting for Huckabee?"
She said, "I think I remember that man,
And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked him."
And I said, "Well, he's the best hope we've got."

Huckabee Music Video

2008-01-07T13:52:00.000-08:00

These guys are great! To listen to their other Huckabee songs go here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RobinsMatt

Lyrics:

Huck! I need somebody

Huck! Not just anybody

Huck!

We really need someone

Huckabee!

(When... when I was young...)

When I was younger, so much younger than today

(I thought that I...)

I thought that I could go and throw my vote away

(Now... those days are gone...)

But now those days are gone, I know what they are worth

(There's only one...)

Now there's only one man I can vote for on this earth

Huckabee will take terrorists down

And fight to keep the right to life around

Illegal immigrants stay on your ground

Won't you please vote Huckabee

(Hey... we need a change...)

The USA will change in oh so many ways

(Let's break the bank...)

With Huck the IRS will vanish in a haze

(Give... their bill of rights...)

he'll give the veterans the rights that they deserve

(And sing and paint...)

And thinks that school without the arts is borderline absurd

Huckabee will take terrorists down

And fight to keep the right to life around

Illegal immigrants stay on your ground

Won't you please vote Huckabee

Rainy Day Photoshoot

2007-12-31T09:18:00.001-08:00

Kami took me out for a photoshoot with her new camera a few days ago. You can see more pictures on her blog. http://www.contentinthecountry.blogspot.com/

Our Christmas Tree!

2007-12-27T21:28:00.000-08:00

We planted 50 Noble Fir trees on our
property roughly 6 or 7 years ago.
This year we cut down our first
home-grown tree! It is over 10 feet tall!!!

The Story of a Fallen Saint

2007-12-17T20:50:00.001-08:00

All was well early on the morning of December 13th, St. Lucia Day. The cinnamon rolls rose wonderfully and came out bubbling and golden brown, perfect! The hot cocoa didn't burn and there were plenty of mini-marshmallows to top the children's cocoa. All the batteries in my "candles" were working and I even found a red ribbon to wear! On my way downstairs to the boys' bedroom I tripped on the second to the last stair but recovered nicely and didn't loose the tray of goodies.
On my way upstairs to visit my littlest sister I tripped again , only this time as I was almost to the top...I lost everything! Cocoa was dripping down the stairs and all over me. I was alright and walked away with just a bruised shin. (Those wooden stairs are sharp!) Everyone was so sympathetic they even brought me breakfast in bed the next morning! Ben (7) really liked the idea, so the next morning he decided to get up bright (I should say dark!) and early and cooked all of us eggs! His service comes a little earlier than I'd like on a weekend...I happened to glance at the clock while turing over and it was 5:45a.m.

Thus ends my story of the "fallen saint". (To find out more about St. Lucia Day read my previous post about it.)

Advent Wreath

2007-12-11T21:51:00.000-08:00

Ever since my family read about the von Trapp family's advent wreath that they hung from their ceiling in Austria two years ago, we've wanted to make one too. Only this year have we finally got around to it! It was perfect timing...the power was out, due to the tremendous storm that passed through our area earlier this week. Of the numerous trees that were down blocking our driveway one so happened to be a holly tree and there were a few Cedar boughs laying about. I butchered the holly tree and gathered the boughs...

I'm very pleased with how it turned out! Ben had saved the metal from a wreath from last year (for some odd reason!) and we had been using it to hang out barn coats on! Very handy and it looked kind of rustic too. So, I just "borrowed" it and used it for the base. It is now haning from a log over our dining room table. It was lots of fun and kind of romantic eating by the cadle light shed above us from the wreath while we ate our dinner with the power out under our Advent wreath! "Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus!"

And of course I had to include the decorations I added beneath my American Indian "ancestors". ;)