1st Day of Christmas

On the First Day of this Christmas Exchange Cindy gave to me. A new set of 11 inch Q-Snaps. Wohoo Thanks Cindy!!

Jeremiah of course ran around with them in front of his face. Telling me Look Mom I was Framed. Leave it to Jeremiah of course.

I hate to interrupt this nice post with some bad news but I just noticed I didn't update my blog recently. My Grandfather Faust passed away on Saturday Dec 12th. We had been expecting it but it still hurts. My grandparents was to be married 68 years this Christmas Eve. It's been hard on my family especially this close to Christmas. Jeremiah is smarter than most though and tells us about how Grandpa is now with the friends and family that has passed before him. Including a young daughter of theirs that passed very young. This will be a hard week with the funeral and what not ahead. But we will make it. He is watching over us telling us it will be okay. Love you Grandpa!!

Monday Update

After a busy Thanksgiving Day I had a very relaxing weekend. Hubby and I sat on our butts and watched lots and lots of hours of DVR shows. Fell in love with USA's White Collar. What a cute show. I also got lots of stitching time. I finished page 4 of my HAED Pirate Dragon. This means I have 25,730 stitches in now. I'm 54% finished finally. I got a few rows of Page 5 started already too. This pattern has a total of 9 pages. Page 5 is full which means 7,600 more stitches. But the last 4 are smaller pages. I'm going to start working on a Christmas Mill Hill kit though tonite. I opened the kit and got it all sorted out last night. I have a winter themed one but somehow it's gone missing in my house. I hope it comes out of hiding before too long. I hope everyone had a Thankful Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Finish

I finally finished this Mill Hill kit. It's called Be Thankful and the number is MH14-7202 in case you need to know. I bought the frame at a LNS. I love the painted pumpkins on the top. I just love doing these kits but for some reason they really take me a long time to finish them. So I was working hard to finish it before Thanksgiving. Now it's proudly on display for the holiday. I have few Christmas ones. But I'm going to take a break haha.

So far we have been sick free (knock on wood). Just dealing with this stupid itch. I was told it was Hives but I just don't know. Other than that life is pretty good. Having Thanksgiving lunch here so the next week will be filled with deep cleaning and getting everything ready. I hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving.

Shopping Trip

I was lucky enough to shop at House of Stitches. So I thought I would post my experience for all to enjoy LOL. I found the 2009 Ornament Issue finally. So I grabbed me a copy. There are alot of pretty ornaments this year.

2 Caron Wildflower Threads called Holiday. They are a beautiful Red and Green color.
Caron Wildflower Thread called Emerald. Jeremiah loves Green.
Caron Wildflower Thread called Mediterranean. It's a gorgeous blue oceany kind of color.

Sue Hillis Women Who Behave pattern
http://houseofstitches.com/detail.cfm?ID=26400

Mill Hill Be Thankful
http://houseofstitches.com/detail.cfm?ID=23279

Mill Hill Christmas Collage
http://houseofstitches.com/detail.cfm?ID=25982

Mill Hill Proud Penguin
http://houseofstitches.com/detail.cfm?ID=25974

Mill Hill Naughty
http://houseofstitches.com/detail.cfm?ID=25965

Mill Hill Nice
http://houseofstitches.com/detail.cfm?ID=25964

So now you can enjoy my shopping time almost as much as I did. I love House of Stitches. I've already started on the Be Thankful piece. Would love to finish it for this Thanksgiving Season. 

Ornament Exchange

I joined in an Ornament Exchange in my fav yahoo group ESC. This is what I received. Not one but two adorable little biscornu ornaments. Also a beautiful bookmark. Geneva was my partner and she really spoiled me. I have the stitching for her ornament done just need to find time to finish it into an ornament. I just hope she likes it half as much as I love mine. I love ESC and all the wonderful ladies in it.

1812

We made a trip back to 1812 again. In Marion, Indiana they have a very fun re-enactment every October. Goes back to show the War of 1812. We always make it a point to attend. This year my hubby, Jeremiah and I went on Sunday. We went early and planned on meeting my dad and step mother later. It was nice cause we spent lots of time shopping. Jeremiah got some wooden guns and a neat bow and arrow. I got a pretty little purple bottle. We also did something new to us this year and made a candle. Jeremiah really enjoyed it. We also watched the battle of course. The loud cannons almost shake the ground when they go off. We really had a lovely time.

Also Friday I had another little Mill Hill finish. This one is called Witchy Fun from Mill Hill. Another one where you get this little box to attach the finished piece too. It's just too cute. They finally are finished and not in my stash box any more.

Here are the pictures...

Autumn Camping

We ended up having an interesting end to last week. Jeremiah got sick again Wednesday night so Thursday I scheduled a doctor appointment. Thursday was spent doing blood work, urine test, and an x-ray. The doc suspected a kidney stone. Come to find out they really run in our family and my dad had one at Jeremiah's age. Urine test showed signs but x-ray was clear so off to an ultra sound on Friday. Catch was Fred took day off work Friday so we could leave early on our Autumn Camping trip. Got the results at 3pm and had the all clear to go camping. The doc said either Jeremiah has already passed the stone or he had an inflammation that caused the sickness. Have to watch him and see if he gets sick again. 4 times being sick in one month is enough though please.

We headed out to our family's camping weekend. We got 9 sites this year and I swear for dinner on Saturday we had 50 people show up. It was crazy. We had a blast. This is when Jeremiah does his trick or treating. They shut down the campground roads and everyone gives out candy. He filled up his bucket. He wanted to be scary this year so we went for Swamp Monster. Got him a really cool antique minnow bucket for his candy. We got so many compliments on the outfit and bucket. I felt so out of touch though cause my phone wasn't working haha. No internet. It was horrible haha. Plus no stitching. But we all had an absolutely fantastic time.

Here are a few pics. Jeremiah in his outfit. Plus his little play trailer. This is a snowmobile trailer. My dad empties it out and even decorated it this year. We throw Jeremiah's tv and playstation plus a bunch of toys in there. The kids just run to play with him. It's great. Jeremiah just has so much fun. One time there was 7 little kids in there with him just laughing and enjoying life.