Holiday Happenings

Big day yesterday-filled with the sounds of the season! My Daisy Girl Scout Troop went to a retirement home aka "where old people, older than you mom, live". We had 11 first graders in their blue girl scout vests carrying giant Amaryllis plants we started from bulbs about 1 month ago. The girls gave the residents the flowers then sang to them for about 30 minutes! The school first grade holiday program was that night so they had a list of 7-8 songs ready along with dance moves and hand motions. The residents LOVED it and so did the girls. M said it was the best day ever!

Later that night we headed back up to school for the holiday program. The kids looked so cute in their reindeer shirts made from their foot and hand prints! They sang their little hearts out! It was a wonderful performance and really made me feel the holiday spirit!

The balls are UP!

My sweet husband has hung my colored, mini lighted, Christmas balls! I made these probably 4 years ago and they have not been hung since. Why? Because he does not like them and feels I do not have enough. Well I have 5! They are the size of a basketball and take a while to make. I only have 2 big trees out front and feel 5 is a perfect number, but to keep the peace and show him how thankful I am to have them hung, I am making at least 4 more balls today!! I am so happy! They completely make the holiday season for me and I LOVE seeing them in my front yard! Thanks so much H!

A birthday to remember

We celebrate my husband's 44th birthday last weekend by going downtown for holiday festivities and dinner then getting a tree. It was so cold and the wait for a table at The Mellow Mushroom was l o n g! Since it took us a half hour to find a parking place and the wait was one hour we decided to hop back in the warm car and head to our favorite tree lot. We arrived and my husband quickly commented that he hoped they had cute Aussies to help us this year too- which I completely was hoping for too!!! But no, not this year, instead it was high school hotties from K's school! Oh well, guess I am out of luck this year! After some pictures in the giant plastic sleigh, we found the perfect tree, 2 actually, but had to pick because we really only needed ONE. Tree loaded, we head back downtown. Our table was ready at the MM and we had a great dinner. H opened his presents and all was well. We went home, had a homemade Jimmy cake,put up the tree and decorated it all! Fun birthday for an old man!

So cute I could eat her up!

My little one has been home all week sick with a cold- a bad cold! But not strep, H1N1, or the flu so we are thankful for that! We have had such a good week snuggling together and reading and catching up on some girl time together. Yesterday her teacher called just to check up on her. My little M sneaked into the den to pickup the extension. She said she just needed to hear her teacher's voice because she missed her so much! How cute is that? Okay, she has only missed 3 days of school, but we did have Thanksgiving break last week so she has not "heard" her voice for 8 full days! Oh to be worshipped like that! My feelings were not too shattered as she has told me no less than 1 million times a day how much she loves ME! I am thankful for a wonderful first grade teacher who makes my girl love her so much too!

Kids Chillin' Out on Vacation

It was cards, cards and more cards in between the pool, hot tub and game room at the resort!

Thanksgiving 2009

We celebrated Thanksgiving with friends this year in Wintergreen, Virginia. These are friends who live many hours away and we don't see that often. Both extended families were kind enough to understand and let us go away with friends. We had a ball! It was a blending of Thanksgiving traditions. Our family experienced our first fried turkey! Delicious!! We cooked all the sides on Thursday between the Macy's Day Parade and knitting. And we had our feast around 4. It included the turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, onion dip, corn pudding, gravy, cranberry sauce, and dinner rolls. Desserts were pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin pie and pecan pie. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration with friends!

Knit one, Purl too!

On our mini vacation to Virginia with one of my best friends, I taught her to knit! While we were in Charlottesville we found a cute yarn store on the mall. I was looking for a project and she just jumped in with both feet. We both got a great yarn called fandango. We bought 2 skeins each and size 10.5 needles. The directions for the scarf were CO 18 and knit every row with both skeins. We started on Wednesday night and finished on Friday. Our friendship scarves is what we are now calling them. I had a great time teaching my friend and knitting in every spare moment! The best part was watching a great movie on Friday afternoon and knitting for 2 hours straight!