Nate Plays at the Grotto this Saturday Night

I wish I new how to make it look like a movie billboard!
Somewhere floating around our apartment is a yellow piece of paper with the time listed on it. Sadly, I have no idea where it is. I think the flute choir plays around 6pm, but anyone interested in hearing many, many flutes playing Christmas carols, should give Nate a call to confirm the time. To clarify that sentence people are playing the flutes, they are not simply playing Christmas carols all by themselves.

Nate Vows to Return

Ramona Falls last month with the first snow falling. The weather today reminded me of it.

Nate laughed when he read our latest blog, but turned slightly pale when I shared my plans to turn the background color to a very tasteful pink. He said that he'll blog again soon:)

Mission Accomplished

This be-lated blog is for you Meaghan!
I know this is Nate's blog, but now that we are married he never updates it. I threatened to start my own, but it is easier to just hijack the updating of Nate! :) As soon as I figure out how I will change the title to "Wallace Quilts" (jk). Nate is busy with rehearsals for Christmas concerts both for Flute Choir and Church. You would think that since Christmas music is all basically the same every year that musicians would have it memorized and not require so much rehearsing. (Really, I'm just kidding!) I love Christmas Music and try and start listening to it in September.
It's been a crazy year. Less than a year ago we got engaged, then married, moved to a new state (Vancouver, WA). Yes, I know it's just a suburb of Portland but they have different license plates here and let you do U-turns! Okay maybe "let" isn't the word I am looking for.
Okay now for what I am really excited about I/we finished 4 quilts this year! Kim's was finished in August, only 13 months late. Beth and Cam's quilt was finished in September - only 4 months late. Sean and Amy's was finished on time, with matching pillowcases! and Autumn and Dan's was only a little over 2 months late. (They got a little skipped to finish Amy and Sean's - which was Nate and I's first combined effort quilt!) My husband, Quilter extraordinaire. I guess he decided to join the insanity rather than fight it;). And to full the craziness of quilting we found a place that has excellent coffee and crepes in downtown Vancouver called MonAmi. They put foam art on my coffee! And didn't charge extra for soy!

Beth and Cam's quilt. They were married 5/5/07



















Sean and Amy's quilt. They were married 10/27/07.

















Autumn and Dan's quilt. They were married 9/8/07


While with Nate's help, I've accomplished the goal I set for myself, please, don't anyone else get married this year!











(Quick addendum to this post. Also found in the post entitled "Yet Another Frozen Lake)

I thought I'd add one random picture to this post: this is the quilt that Andrea and I made for my parents for Christmas. I think it's the biggest and brightest quilt she's ever made. That made five total quilts on the year! My wife is a rock star!!