Good Morning

Boy it is very cold here this morning. Last night about 5:30 it started raining and rained all night long. This morning when I went out to start the van before taking the kiddos to school the van door was froze shut from the rain and the falling temps. Some of the puddles were solid ice. Guess it was a good thing the rain stopped before the temps dropped or we would have had a mess.

I got my nativity set out yesterday. This was made in ceramics by my MIL years ago. I have taken pics of the "sets" and a pic of the whole lot.





Also while I was home from work yesterday I stitched some on my afghan. I have just about completed the blue bird. I should be able to finish that up and start on the rest of the branch tonight after work. At this point I may just reach my goal early.

Well, I have potato soup cooking I need to check on and then I think I will read until time for work. Have a blessed day!

Debs

Off work today

Since I am off work today, I should be able to get my Nativity set up and some stitching done on my afghan. I will take some pics tonight so I can get them posted tomorrow.

Since I cleaned the house last week from top to bottom and I have been doing laundry every morning before work I don't have anything much to do today. I love having a day off and it being free. We are giving our parents scrapbooks of the kids for Christmas. I hope I can get some work in on those today also. I still have to print a bunch of the band pics out to put in the albums and the kiddos will be having their pics made together Friday night.

Well I am off to fix some breakfast and then start my day. Have a blessed one.

Debs

Finally some pics

Okay first we will start with some pics of the house decorated for Christmas.









I still have to put up the Nativity and I hope to do that tonight after work.

Here is also the promised pic of the Snowbuddies Afghan I am working on.



I am on the bottom border about half through with it. My goal is to finish the bottom border by years end so in January I can start on the middle section of the afghan. Wish me luck.

Off to get ready for work again. Have a blessed day!

Debs

Hope everyone had a wonderful

Thanksgiving weekend. Ours started on Wednesday when my son and I spent the entire day chopping, dicing, baking etc getting things ready for Thursday. He baked a chocolate cake by himself and it was WONDERFUL!!!! The boy will be a chef one day. Thursday we cooked the turkey and had my mom, one brother, and his mom all for dinner. It was a great time. Another brother and his two kids stopped by later in the day and visited with us for a little while. Aimee and I was up at 3 on black Friday. We had breakfast at IHOP then hit the shopping. We literaly shopped till we dropped but had a great time. Saturday was decorate the tree day. Ours is up and Will's is up in his room. Aimee's should go up tonight. I still have to put out the Nativity and all the snowmen. Once that is done I will take some pics and post them.

I have put all of my stitching away except for my Snowbuddies Afghan. I will concentrate on this one over the holiday season. I will try to take pics tonight and post my progress beginning tomorrow. We should be getting some snow flakes around here today which would be great by me. Gotta do a few things around the house then I will head off to work. Noon to six for me most of the week.

Have a blessed day!!!!

Debs

Ezra time!!!!

We got to spend the weekend with Ezra again. He brings such joy and happiness into our lives when he is here. It was a wet and nasty weekend but who knew with Ezra here. He kept trying to tell me Saturday that he was 5 yrs old and had been for 2 days. He just turned 3 in September. I am going to post some pics here of us. The rest can be seen at the following link.

http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s224/debs42431/Ezra/

Here is Ezra and me. He calls me his Deb.

Next is Ezra giving me kisses.

Me giving Ezra kisses.

Next is Ezra and Wu (this is what he calls DS & DH.)

Lastly is Aimee and Ezra.

Now it is back to dark and dreary days. But the sunshine will be back again in December we hope.

Have a blessed day.

Debs

Okay here are some random pics

After posting the wedding pics the other day of course I spent time pouring over the album. This pic has to be our favorite.



The ring bearers are my nephews. One of them is discusted with the fact that my DH an I are kissing, the other one is trying to figure out just what we are doing and nearly falling off the steps in the process.

Someone asked me if I was still a blonde. Tell me what you think. Here is a recent pic of Aimee and me.



Off to a fall festival tonight at church. Catch you later.

debs

Thank goodness

band is over for the season. I am so looking forward to a couple of weekends to myself. No running all over the state to watch competitions. I wish they would have made state but they didn't this year but there is always next.

I haven't been stitching much so no updates to post. I have been reading. I couldn't tell you the number of books I have read this month. I have also been sick with a stomach bug and then strep throat. Now I am on the mend and ready to get back into the swing of things.

Hey Ru-Ru, here are the pics I was talking about in my previous email. These pics were from my wedding almost 17 years ago. See the flowers?



Have a great night all!

Debs

Where has the time gone

Between work, the kids band, Church and every day life I haven't been here in nearly a month. I haven't had much time to stitch either. I have started a couple of new projects that I will try to get pics of here soon. I am working on a MH Autumn Wreath and a Tinkerbell bookmark.

The kiddos are on fall break this week and I am working every day. I am longing for Nov. when I get a week off myself.

Well gotta get ready. I will try to get some pics tonight and post them in the morning.

Have a blessed day.

deb

What a mess!

We didn't get any rain here from IKE but we sure got the winds. Trees, power lines etc down every where. My yard looks terrible. We will be spending days just picking up limbs, branches, twigs, etc from the winds yesterday. We were lucky and never lost power for any length of time nor did we have damage from the storm. We did lose a tree but it hit nothing. I will try to get out later and take some pics of the yard.

Hope every one is safe.

Have blessed day.

Deb

Still no stitching

being done here. MIL took us out to dinner last night after work and band practice. By the time we got home I was ready to just do nothing. Probably won't get any stitching in until Sunday during football.

Tonight we work concessions during the home game and then we leave so early tomorrow and will be gone all day, I am sure nothing will get done. I may try to take something small for tomorrow depending on if we drive or ride the bus.

Guess I had better get myself in gear and get ready for work. Go Greyhounds!

Have a blessed day.

Deb

Quiet night tonight

right before the storm of the weekend hits. Maybe I can get some stitching in. Everyone seems to be well around here finally. We should be able to kick back tonight and do nothing once we get home from work and after school band. I am really looking forward to that. Tomorrow night is our first home football game, then Saturday is the double header band competition.

I have started a new project. It is a punchneedle kit of a snowman (what else). I will hopefully get some more work done on it tonight and try to post a pic in the morning.

Have a blessed day.

Deb

On the Mend

I think we are all finally on the mend around here. I went back to work yesterday after being home sick since Friday and Will went back to school today. Now if the other two just don't come down with it.

Got the times for our next band competition. We will leave Saturday morning at 6:30 and pull back in Sunday morning about 2:30. We have 2 competitions in the same day. The awards for the last show begins at 10 and they will last at least an hour with the number of bands. Then we will stop for a fast food break on the way home and then we have an hour and half drive.

Well I need to get some work done around the house. Catch you later.

Have a blessed day.

Deb

Finally a finish!!!

I finally finished SMO Frosty Snowman. I love, love, love how he turned out. Not feeling well still yesterday made it hard to concentrate on the snowflakes so I didn't finish him until about ten last night. But he is done. Here is is!



Please excuse the wrinkles etc. I haven't pressed him yet. I will probably make him into some type of flat fold so that he will go with my snowman christmas tree. Just got to find the right backing fabric.

I am going to try to head off to work this afternoon. First day since I got sick last week. Should be interesting. DS is still down with the stomach bug so he will get to spend the day with grandma.

Everyone have a blessed day!

Deb

Half of the folks in this house

are down sick. I got sick Friday at work and had to come home. Am feeling a little better today. DS got sick with the same thing yesterday. Hopefully the rest of the clan don't get it.

I have been able to work on my SMO Frosty Snowman some during the last few days. Nothing left but the backstitching and attaching the buttons. Here is the updated pic.



Saturday was our first band comp of the season. We finsished third (out of 3). I was very proud of the band. The show is much stronger than last season and the scores were actually pretty tight in our division. We have two comps this Saturday. Hopefully everyone will be well and ready for that.

Off to lay around again today and keep a close eye on Will. Have a blessed day.

Deb

Football Season

is great stitching season. I got my Snowman done and started on the border last night while watching the football game. I should be able to tons of progress on my WIPs now that football is back on. Here is the updated pic of SMO Frosty Snowman.



Tomorrow we leave at noon for the kids first band competion. Since DH is driving I should be able to get some stitching done in the car. I think I will start something new so I will probably spend some time tonight trying to find something.

Off to work. Have a blessed day.

Deb

No stitching going on here.

DH has decided he needs to watch the Republican Convention at night. I don't care a thing about listening to the speeches so I have been leaving the room and playing games on the computer. Tonight I think I will listen to some music with my headphones and stitch away. I should be able to finish the snowman on Frosty Snowman and get back to the border.

This weekend is the kids first band competion. I am already tired just thinking about the day. LOL! We are not chaperones for this trip as the competion is in Madisonville where we moved from. We are going up to visit with friends before the competion starts. Will let you know how we did on Monday.

Have a blessed day.

Deb

Several updates here!

Boy I had a busy week and weekend. Will was in Orlando all last week and I got some stitching in on my San-Man Original Frosty Card. Here is the updated pic of it.


I also got some sewing in. About half of these are done, the other half need to bottoms sewn together where I left the hole for stuffing. Here is a pic of all of them together.


Next is a Prairie Schooler Santa. I will show the front and back of each design.



Next is an ornament from San-Man Originals.



Next is Peace on Earth Dragon.


Next is a candy cane from a kit years ago.



A Merry Tree for Thee Ornament.



Mill Hill Witch.



Now on to the great weekend. Ezra was down for the weekend. We took him to see Elmo live. Here are some pics from the big show.






















On Monday we took him to the Labor Day Parade.






The last pic is of my childrens high school marching band. Here are a few other pics of the band that one of the other band parents took. The first one is a pic of my DD, Aimee (blonde left ponytails) with her two BBF Kristin (red) and Leslie (Blonde beside Aimee).

This one is of Will. He is the trombone player on the right.

Here is the trumpet line.

The rest are some pictures of the band in the gym and during the parade.




I think that is all for today.

Have a blessed day.

Deb