Our Christmas Eve

Here are a few candid shots to see how our Christmas Eve was spent.  It was an overall great day, I would describe it as a bit chaotic, lots of coming and going, people needing to be certain places at certain times, eating and drinking and playing and overall having fun! 

 How lucky to be able to have our loved ones with us! 

Here is Aiden enjoying his hot chocolate he made himself out of my new machine, whip cream and sprinkles to make it festive!

 Bode getting his new red wagon!  Lots of rides around the house and then he even shared with cousin Ethan so we had 2 going for rides!  They had to leave to early for us to get to go outside and go for a "real ride". Bode I hope you love your red wagon!

 Santa came for a visit.  Garrett called it Amy said, a day or so ago she said he told her that the real santa would be coming to Grammy's and whoa I guess he was right.  This is the 4th year Santa has shown up and found these kiddo's at my house!

 Everyone is a bit shy and in awe!  Lots of big smiles tho. Ethan was afraid last year but very brave this year, Bode was a bit shy and not so sure.  Little Noah missed it all and didn't arrive in time.  Thanks to airline messes and late arrivals, but oh well, Santa left him a treat anyway.  And if you look really close over behind Santa is Chris holding the computer with Jeremy on Skype in Mississippi!

 MB was a good sport since Bode wasn't so sure about a picture with Santa.  Santa brought elf hats to the kids this year so they each had an elf hat on to help him.  Look at Ethan watching Santa in the front there!  Aiden at 7 1/2 has really been wondering this year...look at that grin!

 Santa had certificates again this year for them, saying they'd been good.  Santa has really watched these kids grow from year to year and we've added along the way!  He even knew what they'd been up to recently and asked Garrett how his program was and if Ethan was liking preschool!

 Garrett's million dollar grin!

 Aiden and Santa...

 Garrett and Santa...

 Ethan and Santa...

 Everyone having fun with the games that Santa brought them.  He stayed a long time watching them play and enjoying the moment!

 Chris helped Aiden with his new Snap Circuits, a little boys dream of learning electronics!  What  fun, one engineer helping a budding engineer! He can complete circuits and make music, lights flash, beeps, he's going to have fun with this!  Notice Batman there watching!  Ethan had such fun, later he turned into "robin"!

 And here's the best part of Christmas!  Jamie and Noah arrived!  We were so glad to finally see them!  What a crazy time for Jamie, but she made it!

 And here they are, Jeremy skyped with us several times during the day and on Christmas Day too, every few hours he'd call and see what was going on. His box of treats arrived that day on the porch so he munched on the same goodies we were having.

 And lookeeee here!  All 5 of my Grandsons together for the first time!

Ethan 3, Aiden 7 1/2, Bode 18 months, Noah 6 months and Garrett 5.

 Here are the 3 youngest, Ethan, Bode and Noah...

 More candid shots...MB and Bode

 Noah with his Aunt Amy,

 Noah got his puppy dog quilt, yep that is Jeremy in the picture too! and yep that is wrapping paper all over the floor, we were having to much fun to clean up!

 My folks stopped by to get to meet their 7th Great Grandchild!

Noah, gotta love the cheeks! Jamie's folks, her sister and her Grandma stopped in later in the day, joined us for some dinner, it was great to see all of them too.

 So glad our little Christmas angel made it!  Hope you all had a great day too!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all!  Hope you are having a wonderful holiday with your loved ones!  I just wanted to show you something very festive that we've been working on.  This cute quilt is now hanging down at Scrapbooks all quilted up, eyes on, DONE!  It sure was alot of fun to do and I was hoping it would take care of that itch to want to make one for me, but it's not quite doing it!  A darling lap size it's our Christmas Block of the Month that will start in Feb.  It's a great deal and a great way to tackle a project like this so if you are in, make sure you check it out!  It's hanging up in the classroom.  I took alot of photo's so you can see the details so have fun poking around!  And Merry Christmas to you!

This cute bear has his earmuffs on, his cardinal friend on his earmuffs is so cute!\

Mr Penguin looks like he got into some mischief! I know the store will mail these out too, we already have some out of town participants in the Batik BOM

This gingerbread boy was alot of fun to choose the fabrics on, Barb and I had so much fun picking each block!

Santa, so cute!

Mrs. Claus with her pretty holly and her little glasses.

 This guy was so much fun to make!

 A happy bear!  The red stripped inner border was perfect!  Louise quilted it with swirling snowflakes for us.

 Love the nutcracker, the pattern has entire quilts and runners just of different nutcrackers, they are so neat.

 And last but not least this sweet little angel!  It came home with me for a couple days to get the binding on, ho hum, maybe I'll have to sign up.  It would be done for next year!  Or it sure would make a wonderful gift, 11 months, and the best thing is the registration fee gets applied back to your choice of a back if you keep up and get it done! Merriest of Christmas's to you! May it all be as sweet as this little angel!

Special Day!

I had such a nice visit yesterday with my sister and my Niece Jen who came in from Florida, so great to see her after  1 1/2 years!  They came for lunch,  it was such a special day, and today is my niece Alissa's birthday...happy Birthday to our special Christmas angel each year! And it's Christmas Eve...

We are ready for our family celebration....anxiously awaiting 5 little Grandsons to be here

All is ready!  Hope you all enjoy a wonderful time with your families too! Merry Christmas!

Martinique Bag

Barb and I are teaching this cool laminated cotton fabric bag in Jan. at Scrapbooks.  It's such a handy bag to throw on your shoulder and haul!  Our first ones that we made we just left open as a tote, well.....we got a little more ingenious and added pockets.....then we got a bit more into it and changed the whole thing and now it has a really cool inside!  You will love it clear down to the magnetic snap closure and divided center area with a zipper!

 The black and white one was one I did and this darling one Barb put together. I have more of the laminated cotton for another one.....it's on the list....talk about handy and fun, if it  gets dirty, just wipe it off.  These laminated cottons are so fun! Check out our Martinique Bag!

Holiday Program

Lucky me got to attend a great Holiday Program today.  I'm so lucky I can shift my work days and get to attend things like this!  Ethan and Garrett had their preschool program today so Ken and I made it there to hear them sing their songs!  Here is our Ethan....

So cute in his sweater vest, he was staying on his circle!

Here is our Garrett with his reindeer hat on...

Here is most of the class, Amy has had 12 little ones this year, it was hard to get all 12 in one photo!  They made great santa hats with their cotton balls too!

 These little guys are so cute!

 They each had a present for their parents...an ornament they made, you should have seen the other side with all the fun glittery sequins, I could tell Ethan liked the bling!

 Amy and her Dad...

 These little reindeer hats were so cute with their little hands traced....

 Let the party begin.... after the program there were donuts and juice...can you tell Ethan helped himself, that was so cute, his plate was full!  3 years olds are so fun!  What a fun holiday program to get you in a festive spirit!