Progress on the quilt...

Here are a few up-dated pictures of the "Double Wedding Ring" quilt. It has been a pleasure making it and it has turned out rather pretty. I only hope the customer likes it! :)

He lost....

some teeth!!! Stephen lost his two front teeth this week. He pulls them out by himself. When it was just the first one out, he said he didn't want the other one to come out because he would talk funny. Yesterday, he kept playing with it and I warned him if he didn't leave it alone, it would come out. And, after breakfast, it did! He is SO cute when he talks!

A Pretty Pic of Jordyn

(Mom made and smocked her dress)

Mom Prepares for Birth of 17th Child

LITTLE ROCK — The Duggars are once again pulling out the pink ruffles and lace as they prepare for the birth of baby number 17.
Michelle Duggar said Monday in a telephone interview from her northwest Arkansas home that the whole family is excited about the arrival of the baby girl they will name Jennifer Danielle, keeping with the family tradition of giving the child a name that begins with J.

Jennifer Danielle is due July 27.

Duggar, 40, said she was doing fine with her latest pregnancy. Although she has gotten older since she had her first child at age 21, she said, she still has plenty of energy and only minor aches and pains.

"With each baby, God's given me the grace and the energy to keep going, and they really keep you going," she said. "I feel like a 20-year-old kid, but I'm realizing my body isn't that 20-year-old. I don't get up and play the games as hard as I used to, and I try to be a little more careful."

Duggar said she and husband Jim Bob, a former state representative and U.S. senate candidate, view each phase of their children's lives as an adventure.

"I've never been a mom of a 19-year-old young man and a 17-year-old young man and woman, so every phase of parenting is an exciting adventure" Duggar said.

The Duggars home school their children at their 7,000-square foot home in Tontitown. The couple's oldest child, Joshua, is 19, and their youngest, Johanna Faith, is 19 months. Their children include two sets of twins.

Because the couple sees each child as a blessing from God, Michelle Duggar said they will, as long as she is able, accept each child they are given.

"Really, our heart is we would love to receive whatever gifts or blessings the Lord wants to give us," she said. "But I love the baby stage and I can't imagine life without having a toddler in the house."

Two of the Duggar children, Janna, 17, and Jill, 15, attended Johanna's birth at St. Mary's hospital in Rogers in 2005. Duggar said the two girls, who both have an interest in becoming midwives or nurses, may attend Jennifer's birth as well.

And though she has 16 children, Duggar said that each child is so different there are times when she feels like she knows nothing about parenting.

"Here I am a mama with her 17th child on the way, and so many people think 'Oh you've got it all figured out,"' Duggar said. "I am still learning. Just when I think I've got something figured out I try it on the next one and it doesn't work."

The Duggars' other children are John David, 17; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 8; Jedidiah, 8; Jason, 7, James, 5; Justin, 4; and Jackson Levi, 2.

The Rental

Here it is folks! The rental. Now, in case some of you didn't know, there are 9 (NINE) of us. This little doohickey only seats 5 (FIVE). Small problem don't you think? From now on, till who knows when, we have to make 2 (TWO) trips to get anywhere. A big problem we don't need right now.

Other than that, it's kinda nice.

I think we enjoyed our dinner....

This is what Adam looked like after dinner tonight. :)

Cute kid, huh?

Oh No....

On Tuesday, Dad, Mom, Matt and Stephen were traveling in the van and hit another van on the way home from visiting a friend. The air bags deployed and no one was seriously hurt. But, can you believe this, NO ONE HAD THEIR SEAT BELTS ON. I was astonished when I learned that (I NEVER leave in a moving vehicle without my seat belt on). Mom must have hit her face on the airbag because she has a little cut on her chin. She also has a very big bruise on her knee where she thinks she hit the dashboard. Today they are picking up a rental car for us to drive in. People are trying to say our van was totaled....Mom hopes that it doesn't go that far. So for right now, we don't have our normal family van. You would have never thought we'd actually miss our HUGE passenger van! Mom is picking up the rental now, so when 'it' arrives, I'll show y'all the NEW Couch transportation!