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!!!

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!!