Good morning Cuties!

I have finally finished our anniversary quilt! As usual my fingers have been in many pies (doing several things at the same time) but I'm glad to say it is finished in time.
I ended up telling my DH when the kids were here because it was making me too stressed out to try to hide everything. He then got to put his 'stamp' on it, so to speak, by saying what he wanted. This is the result.
However, I have had to blur the photos, as the quilt has many dates/names and its a shame people ( not Cuties!) want to steal your identities.
After I made the top and got everything ready we put it in the quilting frame on a Sunday afternoon, to hand quilt. I had a quilting party on Tuesday. Four ladies and myself quilted that day and was able to roll each side one time. The rest was quilted mostly by my dh and me, although my girls came in and quilted a few lines and also the niece that I travel with. She also cooked a very good lunch for us, the day the ladies came.
The backing of the quilt is printed inspirational quotes. All the snowball blocks on the top are machine embroidered. I ended up not only putting our marriage, our kids, and their marriages and kids, but also our siblings (mine took one block while his took 4-lol), our parents and grand parents. I still had to fill in snowball blocks so I started putting sayings about our life together. Like when and where we married, 1st apartment, army service, how we spent our summer and winter vacations while raising the kids, our work/retirements, etc.
Our oldest grandson has seen it and has enjoyed reading the blocks.
Well, I hope you like it and again I'm sorry I had to intentionally blur it. Thanks for looking Toogie

ps-I want to thank Angie/crafter for all her encouragement, input and just putting up with me-lol
Also, Kim/dragonflyer for trying to help jump start me. I loved her snowmen/snowball quilt she made her parents.Thanks Cuties!