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!!!

Time is flying! I cant believe its the second week of November already! This is my favorite time of year so it needs to slow down so I can enjoy it!!!! I already have my Christmas mugs out & the kids wanted to put their Christmas trees in their rooms so we did that this past weekend. I am ready to put more stuff out!!! I have been listening to Christmas music for a week now!! I have one more ornament to go then they are all finished for my nieces & nephews for this year! I will post them when I am done.

I did finish a covered bridge for my grandma. She loves covered bridges!! I have also been knitting fingerless gloves for gifts. These have been going pretty fast!

Victoria made a traveling volleyball team & Jacob made a traveling basketball team so we are off and running again!! Now we have volleyball, softball pitching lessons, softball, basketball & baseball practices!! I will never see my house again!! I love watching the kids play, I just wish we didnt have all the practices!!!

Time to stitch!! Have a great day!!

UGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! I hate being sick!! I have been down for 6 days now with a sinus infection! It has left me weak!! Today is the first day I have been off the couch for more than 10 minutes! I need to get back among the living!!! I am just glad the kids arent sick. Chuck was down for a few days with a terible cough but so far thats it!! I think I may be on the mend! I have trick or treat candy to buy still! I sent Chuck to get candy & he bought the cheapest kind! Bad man, now I have to go get better candy!

I did manage to work a little bit on the my aunts gift but thats about it, just to weak and to tried! I need to kick things in gear, lots of gifts to get done!!!

Busy times!!! I feel like we are never home!!! We run between volleyball & football right now! Yesterday we celebrated our daughters "13th" birthday! Where does the time go?!?! I cant believe she is a teenager! I think she had a great day yesterday! Forthe last 3 years she & my 2 nieces havemade a Haunted Trail in our basement for the family to go through onher birthday. Theyjust keep getting better & better. The kids really enjoy the trails & the grown ups do too!

I am still working on all my picture ornaments! In between them I started on a picture for my aunt for Christmas. She loves cows so every year I make her a cow picture. I think I am going to turn this one into a pillow when I am done. Well, off to buy Jacob some jeans since he deided to play football in his best pair of pants!!

A weekend of stitching! We watched football, caught up on our dvr shows & I stitched! Took time out Saturday for Jacobs football game..they won!! Great job Jacob! Did some housework inside & out but mostly I stitched!!

I have been working on my picture Christmas ornaments. Every year since my kids were born, I make them an ornament & I put their picture in the middle. I also started making them for my nieces & nephews too so now I make 11 of them every year. I am getting tired of the same patterns so if anyone has any photo ornament patterns that they are willing to share, please let me know!!! This is a picture of the first one done for this year & the next one started! I will keep showing you them as I go!

Way to go Bengals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Fall! I finished the Bengal shirt but I forgot to take a pictureof it! My grandma loved it!! I will try to get a picture soon! I am glad she had it for Sundays game! Way to go Begals!!

I made one of the Halloween ornaments from the new magazine. I decided toput a magnet on the back & hang it on the fridge. I think I will make a few more Halloween ones then start on Christmas!! I love this time of year!!

Lots of cleaning to do today! I keep stitching and stitching for others but no one cleans my house for me!?!

Have a great first day of fall!!!!

Welcome to the Jungle!!! My grandma has been wanting a Bengals sweatshirt for a year now & has not received one so I have decided to make her one! I am hoping to have it done by Saturday so she can wear it for the season!

Victoria did great in her volleyball game last night! She had 8 serves in a row last night & 18 in a row last Thursday! She is really doing super!! Jacob had another good football game! He is starting to like tackling people more and more! Boys!!!

Off to try & get some stitching done before the day gets to crazy! Have a great day!!

Remembering 9/11. This is a hard day for all of us. Please pray for all of those that we have lost.

Its done!!!! I am soo excited! I love it & I know my brother and sister-in-law will love it too!! Now I just have to get it framed and try to wait for Christmas!

I started on one of the Halloween ornaments from the annual magazine. I htink I am going to make a bunch of them as gifts! I also need to start on a Bengals sweatshirt for my grandma, she has been wanting me to make her one so I need to start that tonight! So many projects, so little time!!!

Happy stitching & have a great weekend!!

Its almost done!!! I see the light at the end of the tunnel!!! We were so busy yesterday with Victorias volleyball and Jacobs football that I didnt have much time to stitch but not today! Today I am going to get this done!! I am already thinking of my next project! I think I am going to do a few small Halloween items for some of my friends! I love giving things away!! Hopefully I will have a finished picture to post in a day or two at the most!!

Jacob had his first football game this past Saturday, I do not like it!! I was worried the entire time! Hes the quarterback & no one blocked for him! I hated to see him on the bottom of the pile!!! Only 7 more games to go. Help me!!! I love baseball!!!!!

What a life! The kids thought it would be fun to make Echo comfortable while he was outside! He is so spoiled!!!!

What a busy weekend!! Im not ready for Monday yet! I want to enjoy my weekend that went way to fast!! I didnt get nearly enough stitching done as I wanted too! We helped my mom move & then had to go to a funeral on Sunday. Just wasnt the weekend that I wanted! I am looking forward to the longer weekend next weekend!

I did do some stitching on my sister in laws picture. I am ready to get this done! Its time to start making some Christmas ornaments and Halloween things! I love fall, its my favorite time of the year!!!

I think I am going to visit my local needle shop today! I need a new project like I need a hole in the head but thats has never stopped me before!

Have a great week!!!!

Wow, its been awhile! Things have been busy! Even though ball has been done, we have had lots of ball tryouts for next years teams & Jacob has started football! Busy times once again! I cant believe school starts next week! I feel like my summer has flown by! I am not ready for the kids to go back to school yet, I like having them home!

In between tryouts & football, I have managed to work on a picture for my brother & his wife for Christmas. I am doing a picture of their two girls (my nieces) for them. I love doing these pictures! Everyone loves to see the final product! I have 3 more pictures to cross stitch that I want to do for gifts so I need to get stitching!!

I will keep you posted!

Finally! I will have my weekends back! Both kids are done with ball!!!! Now I will be able to stitch my heart out most Saturdays & Sundays! I think I am going to start on some Christmas projects. I have the new Winter White Santa to do so I think I am going to make myself something for once!!! I will keep you updated on how its going! I did start a pair of socks last night! I was in the mood to do some knitting. We are heading to the Red game tonight so I am gathering a car project for the hour drive! Have a great day!!!

Watch Me Grow

Its DONE!!!! Finally, the baby gift for my cousin is done!!Macey was born Monday & now I have her gift! I dont know why this took me 2 months to do, all I can think of is that it is oblong & a pain to hold so I kept putting off working on it! I love it! I almost hate to give it away & now I wish I had one for my kids!! I cant wait to see the first picture that she puts in it. Now the question is, "What do I start next??"

Wow, what a weekend!

Friday was busy with kid activities & having our sons "9"birthday party!! I cant believe our baby is 9 already! Where does the time go??

Our daughter also started a softball tournament Friday night. I had to stay home with the party so of course I missed 2 of her best hits so far!! They got home in time to enjoy cake & ice cream with us!!

Saturday was a rainy mess!! The ball tournament was delayed all day so that meant that I got to sit home & stitch!!!!!! Yeah me!! I watched my craft shows I had on DVR & stitched all day! I think I stitched for 12 hours!!

Sunday, we were back at the ball fields! They had to play a ton of ball since Saturday was a wash. I did get to stitch alot in the car in between games. We were at the ball fields until 1:00am!!! Victoria was a hitting machine! The good news is, is that they won the tournament!!! Yeah Troy Terror!!!

I am so close to finishing my baby growth chart gift! I am hoping to work on it today (if the kids dont want to go to the pool!) I will be posting a picture of it soon!!!

Have a great Monday!!

Long weekend at the ballfield! Both kids had tournaments this weeknd! They were 6 miles away from each other so that wasn't to bad. Victorias team came in 2nd & Jacobs team came in 3rd!

I did get to stitch a little in between games! I have my baby gift almost done!!!!! All I have to do is finish the outlining now!! I am soooo excited! I will post a picture as soon as I am done with it!

We are going to head to the pool in a few hours. Its finally sunny & warm again! I am ready to lay around & soak up the rays! We dont have anything on the calendar for tonight!!!! :) I love it when we have a free night!

Its my birthday! The one day a year that I get to do NOTHING!!!! My husband & kids know that this is the day that I get to sit & stitch all day!! Of course, that hasn't happened so far today but the day is still young! I will try to work in a trip to the yarn store & to JoAnns... birthday money to spend!!!!

Finished a breadcloth for my grandparents for their 60th wedding anniversary! Wow!! 60 years!! My 16 years is nothing compared to theirs!!

I keep finding all these other things to work on instead of my baby gift, I think I am burnt out on it! My goal is to have it done by this weekend! Hold me to it!!!

Finished a sweatshirt order tonight! The lady wanted a "grandma" sweatshirt! I think it turned out great and she loved it! NOw to work on my baby gift!!!

Its Monday & its a lot cooler today! I think we are going to skip the pool today! I need a day to stay home & get the house caught up!
I also need to sit down this afternoon & work on my cousins baby gift. Her baby is due July 29 & I still don't have her gift done. Her theme is safari animals & I found the cutest "Watch Me Grow" cross stitched safari growth chart! I love it! I am so close to being done but we have had so many baseball games to attend, that I just can't find the time to finish it! I think today might be that day!!!