I am making progress with my sister in laws picture! I just printed off a new one to start after this one, its for my mom for Christmas. its of all 9 grandkids! Its only 22 pages!! Am I crazy or what?!?! She will love it! She has been waiting for one for years!
Woke up to a dusting of snow today, yuck! I want spring!! It was 39 yesterday & so nice, now we have snow again! :(
Not much to post today, I want to get stitching!
Have a great day!!

Coyote alert!!! We have seen 3 sightings of coyotes in our back yard in the last week! Last Friday Mr. Coyote was in the middle of our yard staring in the house at me! Echo is going crazy sniffing outside, he knows something is out there! Mocha on the other hand is totally oblivious to the coyote! Im sure she would make a nice little snack for it! Victoria & I have started shouting out the door every time we let the dogs out to scare any coyotes away! I certainy dont like them being so close to the house!!!

I didnt get much stitching done this weekend, we were on the go alot!! I did read alot in the car! I hate it when I have to try & decide between reading & stitching!! I am still working on my Sister in laws picture of her, her husband, 2 kids & her parents for Christmas 2010! Trying to get a head start on things!! Heres a picture of it so far!

Another week jam packed with basketball, softball & baseball! I just wish it was warm out. We are suppose to get a light snowfall today! :( I want summer!!! Bring on the heat!!!

Have a great day!!

Pillow Fight!!!

I guess the dogs wanted to help me carry the pillow to the trash! They are sooooo helpful!!

I have been working on a new " picture to cross stitch picture". Its for my sister in law for this coming Christmas. I will post a picture as soon as I remember to take one!!

Isnt it summer yet?? I am so tired of snow & col! I hear my flip flops calling me!!

I did manage to get lots of gifts done for Christmas this year! I am happy with how everything turned out! I have now started on a gift for next Christmas already! Stay tuned & I will post a picture when I have made some progress on it!!

Echo & Mocha getting along like best buddies (of course, they are sleeping!!!)

Happy New Year!! I cant believe Christmas is over already! It makes me so sad! We had a great Christmas! The kids enjoyed everything they received & I just enjoyed being with my hubby & the kids! We had lots of family game nights!! The good ol fashioned board game, game nights & good ol ping pong!! I hated to see the kids go back to school today. Im not bored though, I still have the new puppy to keep me busy!!

I did teach my 2 nieces how to stitch. One night they asked how to do it so Victoria & I showed them how. They are all stitching their initials.

Call me crazy!!!! Crazy, crazy, crazy! We got the kids a puppy Saturday! Why oh why?!?! We have been talking about it for while now, we are gone alot with all the kids sports so we wanted to get a friend for Echo so he wasnt so lonely while we are gone. I really wasnt thinking a puppy though! Well, Mocha is now part of the family! She is a shepherd/terrier mix & shes a little bundle of fire! She definetly doesnt take it when Echo gets in her face! She fights back. So far, things have been going well. I hate putting Mocha in a cage right now while we are gone, but she doesnt seem to mind to much. The kids are in heaven with two dogs. I have always wanted two dogs so I am loving it too! I just hope things continue to go smooth!!

Busy times!! Thanksgiving came & went in a whirl! Way to much turkey!! We had a super great time with all the family! Lots of board games were played this year!

Moving on to Christmas! I had everything decorated the weekend before Thanksgiving. I love to get everything up so I can enjoy it! We made the big switch last year to an artifical tree (yuck) but we had to. We always get a 13 foot tree & 9 foot around for our great room. It got to be such a pain having to use Chucks weights to weigh the thing down & to have the neighbors come over to help put it up. This tree is just as bad though! Its 14 foot tall & Chuck struggles to put the top on it! Oh well, what are you going to do??!! Victoria has started a bad habit with the dog & the tree, she thinks its cute to put a candy cane on the bottom & watch Echo get it off. Wont be cute when he knocks the whole tree over. In this picture, he is waiting for a candy cane to appear!!

Most of the shopping and wrapping is done, cards are out & baking has been started. I try to bake something every few days. I love this time of year!!!!

I still have 3 gifts to finish. I am making a Vikings helmet cross stitch for our son, a Chiefs one for my brother in law & I took a picture of our first Husky & am stitching it for our daughter. Looking forward to stitching tonight & watching Christmas movies with the kids! The only day this week that we have nothing on the calendar!!!!

Hope you are all enjoying your holidays!!

Merry Christmas!!

I did it! I finished all the ornaments for my kids, my nieces & my nephews!! I am so glad I am done! I need to finish putting the strings through them & do two more pictures but they are done!! I can finally move onto something else!!!

We put up a few Christmas decorations this weekend! I just cant seem to wait! I love this time of the year!!!! We have a busy weekend coming up too. We have Thanksgiving at our house with my husbands family & then on Sunday we have our baking day! Every year since I have been a little girl we all get together to make cookies. Theres usually about 17 of us, parents & kids that bake! We bake over 5 different kinds of cookies and usually end up with over 700 cookies! We freeze them and them divide them up on Thanksgiving for everyone to take home and enjoy! I cant wait!!!