Andrews Family

Working on Olivia’s Halloween costume brought back a lot of good childhood memories. Every summer, Rachel & I would pick a pattern and Mom would help us prepare our sewing projects for the Saunders County Fair. As I remember, we had the modeling competition on Monday (I was even a trophy winner and went to State one year!) and the garments had to be there on Wednesday night. Ribbons would be placed on Thursday afternoon. We usually did very well having many purple and blue ribbons and State Fair qualifiers. One of my favorite projects was when Rachel & I each made a matching outfit for Matthew & Zachary. They were really little - might even have been Matt’s first summer with us (he would’ve been four then and Zach two). I think those are monkeys on the bright yellow hammer pants! Aren’t they adorable? It’s so shocking that they can be 19 (almost 20!) and 17 already. When I left for college they were just 7 & 9. I still have the frame that I put their 1st and 3rd grade pictures in that fall and have added every year’s photo since then. I have really missed watching our "little boys" grow in to young men over the last five years. Definitly one of the difficult parts of living far from family. They are such opposites - and yet both handsome and talented and loved a whole lot by their big sister!!