The BIG 28!

Happy Birthday!

It was Caches birthday on Monday. Happy Birthday Cache! I can't believe he is 28 this year. How time fly's! I still think of him as 20 years old and so eager to turn 21. It is amazing how much of our lives we have spent together, I couldn't imagine my life any other way. After this birthday you could tell how long we have been together. I woke up and got him his most favorite doughnuts (Branburry Doughnut in SLC) and coffee. He swore off donughts a few days before but his birthday was an exception. Later we went to eat at the Counter and went to see -I love you man- I give it a B+ in case you were wondering . After that we came home and Cache decided he wanted to learn to sew. Watch out everyone we have a new seamstress in the house! Don't worry Cody and Hanna thanks to cache you will have your baby blanket in no time. He was way into it! I love that about Cache. He gets into somthing and gets so excited. He is actually very detailed an quite the perfectionist with his sewing lines. Last but not least I got him a really old person-but totally Cache kinda gift. I can't say what it is because it hasen't come in the mail yet. The anticipation is painful! He keeps asking question to figure out what it is and this is what he has to work with so far...
-You can attatch it to your belt-weird but true!
-You use it often
-It makes sounds
-It has small images
-It's not taller than 12"
-It won't fit in the mailbox
***It's not a Gigga pet-Cache already asked that

What do you think it is?

Birthday Donughts

1+1=2+8=28

Cache wanted Root beer floats to go with his birthday dinner at his mom and dads.( he wanted Turkey dinner for his birthday meal...Isn't that weird?) Since he picked floats Lynn stuck his candles in ice cream. You can always rely on the Cherringtons to make your birthday feel official.

Introducing Martha Cache!


Happy Bithday Love!

He's Here!

Finally baby Bobby has arrived! I was so hoping for him to be born on Caches birthday but he was much to excited to come. Looking at his perfect little face and his little Janel ears make me smile. I am so happy and proud of you guys for making such a sweet and beautiful family. Eliza and Bobby have all they need between the two of you.
Enough gushing and on with the pictures......

He looks so angelic in the picture. Can you hear harps?

With a pout like that he will certainly get anything he wants.

Look at his cute little Janel ears...Awwww!

Eliza and Bobby

This picture of Eliza is my most favorite picture of all time. I am pretty sure the two of them are related. The only difference is Bobby carries the Asian gene a little stronger. =)

Ta Da!!!!!

JANEL DO NOT READ THIS POST OR PROCEED ANY FURTHER! IF YOU DO I WILL BE SOOOO MAD AND YOUR COMPUTER WILL EXPLODE!!!!
(mostly you will ruin your surprise, which will be sad.)

I want this to be a surprise...can you tell?







So......
After picking peoples brains, a bag of Cadburry eggs, and almost losing an eye I finished baby Bobby's quilt! At one point the needle broke and hit me in the eye...can you say special? After that Cache busted out his most stylish pair of safety glasses ,with sincere concern, insisted that I wear them. God bless him for having to deal with the most uncoordinated and accident prone wife! I had so much fun making this quilt I have about 6 others planned. We'll see when I burn out since I tend to do this. I get all excited about something but I never turn it into a long term hobby I just move on and find something different or end up watching an unhealthy amount of T.V.. I never would have finished this quilt if it hadn't been for Tami and the ladies at Material Girls fabric store. Tami was able to answer all my questions that made no sense at all and give me answers( how she made since of what I was asking or explaining is beyond me!) And the Ladies at Material Girls made me feel like I could quilt a mountain if I wanted to. I was convinced that I would end up having someone else quilt the blanket for me but after talking to them I was an inch taller and full of confidence. I questioned there suggestion shortly after starting but I made it through. I would also like to thank god and my directors, but most of all I want to thank my fans......Just kidding I started to feel like I was giving an acceptance speech. Can you tell I have had to much coffee?
Here is the final result.....







After all was said and done the final test was the washing machine. I kept my fingers crossed the whole time. I was terrified that I would open the lid and it would be a tangled we of string. Lucky for the washing machine it did no harm. I think it could sense my penetrating nerves and knew better than to mess with me.

Looking good right? This look is my Sunday best....don't be jealous. I bet you are wondering where I managed to quilt this in our tiny apartment. Lets just say the place is covered in thread and fabric! The whole time I think this made Cache tense which would explain why he kept the Dustbuster at hand. I swear he is the character of of Wallie that is constantly vacuuming.

Disgusted!

I just wanted to post a little food for thought. I am on the recycling team at my work and I love it! Lame as it may seem to be excited about garbage I am so happy to work for a company that is making conscious efforts to reduce their footprint on the planet. Grocery stores are the worst when it comes to waste. You would be shocked to see how much trash we can produce. On this team we are creating a fail proof program so we can seriously reduce or waste. We are now part of a co-mingle recycling program and the stores that are on board 100% are probably diverting half of there waste from the landfill. If we were A+ we could probably make that 75%. 2 of our stores have started composting all of there organic waste like produce and floral trimmings, can I say AWESOME! Our floral center is now considered a zero waste facility because they are composting and recycling about 95% of there waste. I hope one day our store can get there...at least I can dream. Anyway...awhile ago I was looking online for some statistics and I discovered a disgusting and horrific thing that I feel I need to share with everyone I see. The great pacific garbage patch! If anything should motivate you to reduce, reuse and recycle this should......

“It is roughly the size of Texas, containing approximately 3.5 million tons of trash. Shoes, toys, bags, pacifiers, wrappers, toothbrushes, and bottles too numerous to count are only part of what can be found in this accidental dump floating midway between Hawaii and San Francisco.”

“Much of our waste today is comprised of plastic that does not biodegrade. This waste accumulates in swirling seas of debris, where plastic to sea life ratios are 6:1; where birds and mammals are dying of starvation and dehydration with bellies full of plastics; where fish are ingesting toxins at such a rate that soon they will no longer be safe to eat.”

To learn more go to http://www.greatgarbagepatch.org/.

I will stop talking now. I just wanted to share what we are doing to our planet...a little food for thought. Next time you go to buy a water bottle, bag your grocery's in plastic bags or let your recyclable items be dumped in the landfill think of the Great Garbage Patch.

I am feeling ambitious.....today

So....I somehow imagined up the idea that I should make a quilt. I have already tried this and I am still in the process of this first project. I started a yo-yo quilt and now I know why they call it a lifetime quilt. Seriously...I need to make a 1,300 of these suckers for a BABY QUILT! My last child might receive it or my first grand baby if they are lucky. It all started with just a plain flannel quilt. For all my friends that have babies I have made them baby blankets. Well.....Janel is pregnant with a baby boy and due in less than two months. That's right I have two months to finish this little project of mine. Well to make a long story short the fabric store had NO cute flannel fabric, so what is a girl to do other than use the cute fabric and make a quilt. So here I go!

I hope baby Bobby likes my trial and error quilt.

Let me remind you...I need to make 1,300! Yes indeed it will take me a lifetime.

My goal is to make the beautiful fabric below look like the blanket above. Wish me luck!

Glasses

Cache finally got glasses! Since I met him...about 8 years ago....he has been complaining that he can't see. He finally went to the doctor and got glasses. It is about damn time! After he went and picked up his glasses he said " I was driving down the road and I put on my glasses and I could read the street signs!" SCARY!

My new sweet baby - Baby Cherrington!

So after this little experiment and based on the results,I have decide we will not procreate. I will not have any buck toothed rug rats running around calling me mom....these creatures are scary! After the magical inter-web made our babies I told Cache "Look at out ugly babies!" and he replied back with "How could you say our babies are ugly...I think there cute!".......Only a face a father could love!