Shopping with Aiden

Aiden and I had a great time this weekend. I picked him up and away we went. Build a Bear was his choice of something fun for him so we went with his bunny named Sam. He thought he'd get him an outfit but then decided on a new friend. So SamSam came home with us!And he wanted Somburros for lunch too! Then we went to the dollar store to get his christmas shopping done. He picked things for all his family and then we went home to wrap.
He got his wrapping done and of course this year could spell everything on his tags. Note the 2 bunnies in the chairs!
With just our few minutes to play before he had to be home he wanted to drive the christmas train a few times and then go feed the goats down the street! They were happy to see us and Aiden and I had a great time on our date!

Aiden's school

I got to go to Aiden's school this week on their last day before break, for their assembly honoring the kids in their "character counts" program. Aiden got a red ribbon to wear all day at school and got to stand with the other first graders receiving awards. It was great to see how the schools have evolved in their teaching of basic good character morals. Neat songs and motions all led by the music teacher, very fun and upbeat, the kids love it. When it ended he got to go and show me his classroom this year and I got to meet his teacher and see his desk. Then we all went to McDonalds for a treat and to play on the toys. What a fun last day of school for everyone!

Garrett's Christmas program

Lucky me got to go to Garretts preschool Christmas program this week. It was soooo cute! They sang several songs and I think this class just outsang any class in the past! They had a couple "prop" changes even with these cute reindeer hats they made.
And cute Santa hats too, aren't they all fun and cute! 9 little voices ( one little one was missing and out sick) all singing so hard. So many parents came and several sets of grandparents. What a great turn out to enjoy the children.
Amy does such a great job with them, they have so much fun going to Little love Bug preschool!
Here is a song for you to enjoy !

Bode

A fast little photo of our littlest Grandson Bode. He got to come play with Ken and I this past weekend for a short visit while Mom and Daddy escaped! What fun we had, he loved looking at the lights on the trees. He stared at the one in our bedroom forever after he finished his bottle. He also got to watch the train run, it was soooo cute, we had to show Chris and MB when they got back, he watched it go around and around the track, just sort of mesmerized by it, it'd disappear around one bend and then he'd look the other way as it came back around, it got close to him and he'd wiggle his feet all excited each time that it came around. Magical Christmas times!

Class Sample

I've been flying like the wind today in case you saw that streak in the sky...that was me! Packages are out in the mail, cards too, Little Grandboy presents half wrapped ( just to get them hidden) and so today I totally concentrated on my first class at Scrapbooks Etc. It's Jan. 6th and its a day or evening class times (Thursdays for 3 weeks). It's called Polka Dots and Pinwheels and it's an Intermediate level quilt class. So if you are ready to try something just a bit passed those beginning quilts, we'll be having a great time! It soon will be quilted/bound and the little applique centers on, so I"ll post a finished picture when it's done and at the store. Getting the back for it tomorrow at work, so for tonight, it's just me and the Elves busy with other things!

Thornberries Christmas Party

I hosted our quilt group the Thornberries Christmas party again this year. All ready and waiting for everyone to come.....We played alot of games, everyone brought a white elephant, fatquarters, little silly presents so we had a great time! Sue won all the fat quarters as we played with LRC.
Bobbi won all the star blocks with another round of LRC.
We had so many beautiful gifts to open and then dinner, everyone brought yummy dishes from appetizers to punch and Barb brought the ham and we had great sides to go with it.

We exchange names for the gifts and have alot of fun all year planning something for our special person. Lorene got this from Terry P. who we missed ( she moved to CA but is our long distance member!)This came in the mail and was just beautiful!
Lorene made me this beautiful bag, it's going to be the perfect travel bag, has a place for your lap top, and lots of compartments, very sturdy and stands up so nice, then even an umbrella pocket! It's just wonderful and I love it!
Here is Bobbi with the wool runner I made for her.
Bobbi made Barb his cute table runner for the holidays.
Here's Judy with her pretty towels from Barb....a reindeer and snowmen heads.
Judy made these 3 wallhangings for Sue, all cute cats.
Louise made this flannel quilt for Mindy and Mindy had Louise's name and made her that pretty red work stocking, wish I'd have taken a close up, it's so cute with snowmen all stitched on it.
So here we are minus Terry P. That's me in the back, then Louise, Judy, Mindy, Lorene, Then the front has Barb, Bobbi and Sue. Lots of chit chat about what our plans for this next year will be, new swaps and projects to work on, we keep each other inspired, so many neat things come out of this very talented group, I'm lucky to be a part of it!

Finished Project

Another finished project, this one is my Thornberry Christmas Gift for my special friend who's name I had. It's a wool table runner ( guess it looks like the wind was blowing during the photo as I didn't fix up the scarves.!) We had our party last night so I gave Bobbi her present at the party. I'll post those pictures soon! This one had alot of miles.....it was worked on in Mississippi last spring and in San Antonio this fall and all along the way!

Thursday Club Christmas Party

Our Thursday club enjoyed our Christmas party this year, fun time spent being together. We decided to go to Mi Amigo's for dinner so had some great mexican food. Then Mindy invited us back to her house for dessert. Kathy had made these fun cupcakes in a jar for us all, and hot chocolate out of Mindy's new hot chocolate maker ( I'd never seen one before and it was pretty neat) We had our little goodie exchange so all came home with yummies to eat and freeze for later.Merry Christmas to my dear Thursday Club friends....Judy, Ann, Kathy,me, Mindy and Cindy!

Scrapbooks Etc. Sample

Just finished this quilt for Scrapbooks etc. It's a sample for the store from a pattern called Summer Ribbons ( by Fig tree) using a jelly roll, I've made a few kits which I'll finish up today so they can go out with the quilt. This one is twin size but there is a smaller size on the pattern. The fabrics are from a line by American Jane called Punctuation.

Breakfast with the gang

Another fun catch up breakfast with alot of friends whom we all used to work with! Cindy and Karen got to come this time. Ellen showed us her quilt she'd just had quilted, oh my gosh it was amazing. It was fun catching up with them all for another month.

Little Bode

A few hours with Bode on my day off was fun! He's getting over being sick so it gave MB a moment to go to the grocery store and catch her breath. He was doing pretty good and showed me his new little tricks of blowing lots of buzzzy bubbles and sucking on his toes! How cute is that! Lots of giggles and fun.

Our Weekend

We had a fast and fun weekend with Amy's boys staying with us. She and Chris had a weekend planned to celebrate their anniversary so the 3 boys stayed with us. I met them for Garretts soccer game and we left from there. Stopped and got sandwiches and went to the park for an impromptu picnic. We came home and just "pretended " to have rest time and then went to the park around the corner to play. They love to ride Grammy's bikes to the park ( about 3 blocks away), Ethan pushes this little tricycle with his feet, he made it about 2 blocks and then we left it on the side of the street to pick up on our way back. We came back and started putting some ornaments on my tree, they did a great job, Garrett really enjoyed it and Ethan surprisingly knew just what to do. By the time they left on sunday it was beautifully decorated with about 3 ornaments per branch along the bottom, and yep it's still that way, I love it!
Aiden was very occupied with the train we have set up around our village on the pool table. He loved getting to drive it. There is Garrett with an ornament sled that he thought surely was Buzz Light-years rocket ship!
Take note of buzz lightyear and a truck going for a ride on the train...
Here are a couple shots from the park...out of order....lots of swinging...

Back to the tree....here is Ethan.
And Ethan again, all jammied up and clean for the night. We had supper and then movie night with How to Train your Dragon, very cute movie!
More train shots, I'm thinking those blue and green "little people" are waiting their turn on the train!
Ethan is so into cooking these days, loves getting out all the play dishes. And yep that is his Mommy's little apron from way back when!
Cute shot from when I looked over while doing the dishes, each boy busy independantly, one on the train, one playing a game and there is Ethan in the corner with Pooh all set up to eat what he was cooking!
Next morning after they helped make chocolate chip pancakes we made our gingerbread train engines. Lots of fun, but we all decided we'd go back to the houses next year.

Here is Garrett's....most of his candy was licked before being placed....
Aiden did a great job on his too.
Ethan did really well getting most of his candy on too!
So......after hosing out the house we decided it had warmed up enough outside so we headed to a favorite park to feed the ducks the leftover thanksgiving rolls....
Lots of play on the toys... that is Garrett and Papa in the back on the swing too.
Endless energy.....
A ride on the train and also on the little carousel boat ride.

By then we were starving so we hit up McDonalds on the way home and they ate and ate and ate! More play on the toys and yep Ice cream! We went home to watch a show and have quiet time until Mommy and Daddy picked them up......a wee bit tired but we sure had fun!