11-22-2012 Happy Thanksgiving!

I love my family!!!!!!

I'm so thankful that each one of you 

is in my life.

11-21-2012 Getting Ready

Dinner Rolls and Pumpkin Pies are baked...

Table is set...

Turkey is in the brine...

and side dishes are mixed and ready to go!

Now all we need is family to arrive

and we are all set for a happy Thanksgiving!

We wish those of you in our extended family, and friends,

a happy Thanksgiving as well.

11-20-2012 I'm In A FOG

(...in more ways than one!!!)

11-19-2012 Railings

Railings for the deck

went up today.

11-18-2012 Every Stitch with Love...

Friends will soon be receiving 

these latest handmade items...

every stitch with love!

...and this friend got her's last Friday night!

11-17-2012 Switching

DH & I are switching back to satellite TV...

we have not been happy with Mediacom's cable service...

it went out at least once every two weeks

taking us offline

and giving us pixel-ly TV every day.

We never had those problems before

when we had DirecTV...

so we are switching back!

11-16-2012 Helper and Friend

Barucha is my 'helper' when I knit...

and her neighbor/friend 'Patches'

is wondering what the heck is up with our deck?!?!?

It is her favorite place to sun in the mornings!

11-15-2012 Murphy's Law

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong".

Today the decking company began resurfacing our back deck.

 First, the drills gave out...

  Then the nail gun broke...

So instead of finishing the deck today

they only got a few boards down.

They have to buy a new nail gun

and plan to have it shipped overnight

if that's possible.

I'm guessing that Murphy's Law

will kick in for the shipping too!

11-14-2012 Love

Love this pix of my two girls...

baby just got up from her nap

and had cute 'bed head'

11-13-2012 Happy 4 Month Birthday!

 Happy 4 month birthday

to my precious grandson!

And many thanks to my wonderful D-I-L

for sending me regular photo updates!!!

I love you all.

11-12-2012 Out with the Old...

 So, here is what the old deck surface looks like...

Today began the process of

"Out With the Old"...

deck top...

It is cracked and split and splintered 

and coming apart at the seams,

so we are having the deck top replaced.

 

11-11-2012 He's on Cloud 9 !

 Using our turn by turn navigation on our iPhones...

DH & I went on a road trip yesterday in search of

a wood working store in Peoria, IL...

(he has looked all over Iowa to no avail)

 He's now in woodworkers' heaven...

soooooooooooo happy

he found a place to buy lumber!!!

And my DH, being the sweetheart that he is...

also looked up several yarn stores in Peoria

and took me along to check them out!

 Do I have the best husband ever, or what?!?!?!?

 After shopping, he took me to lunch at "Beignet's On The Corner"

...a quaint New Orleans style restaurant...

where we enjoyed some Cajun gumbo

and a po'boy sandwich.

The side of their building was painted with a Mardi Gras mural...

11-10-2012 Footings

...for the new landing and stairs off our back deck

were dug and poured yesterday.

11-9-2012 Fish Fry

Tonight our church is having a fish fry

and I volunteered to bring some corn muffins.

DH will have to take them

as I am working at the LYS tonight.

11-8-2012 All Wrapped Up!

 DH & I have not done any Christmas shopping

for about 20 years...

BUT now that we have our first 2 grandbabies

we decided it was time

to do the "Christmas thing" again.

We are celebrating Christmas early

(at our Thanksgiving family get-together

only 2 weeks from now),

so today I did some wrapping!

11-7-2012 Quickees

No... not THAT kind of Quickee!!!!

Samples I made for the LYS...

quickee knit & crochet projects 

for the holidays:

green and red potholders

and a white dish/spa cloth

knit in bamboo stitch.

11-6-2012 Bib Hater

This baby (my gd) HATES bibs!!!

Will NOT eat with a bib on...

pulls and pulls on the bib until it comes off...

THEN will eat!

This baby (my gs) will wear them!

Thank goodness, huh?!?!?

I love my precious grandbabies!!!

I have the feeling they 

will be appearing with greater frequency

on my blog as my life is rather boring

outside of them! ha.

11-5-2012 The Ol' Switcheroo

The baby arrives at Oma's house in the mornings

wearing her Chicago Bears sweater...

She switches to her preferred sweater

until it was time to go back home...

Shhh... don't tell mommy and daddy!!!

11-4-2012 Taking Advantage

DH & I are taking advantage

of today's nice temps in the 40's

to string a few Christmas lights

in the front yard trees.

We will be celebrating Christmas

at our Thanksgiving family get-together this year

as the weather & roads 

are just too iffy and icy for travel

come the end of December!

11-3-2012 Stocking Ornaments

Made two for me

and two for the LYS...

11-1-2012 Pacifier

Baby took a pacifier for the very first time today!

Before, she always spit it right out immediately...

I'm guessing that she is cutting her top teeth

and it feels good to chew on the pacifier.