Family Life Group

We have the BEST family life group - aka small group from church.  We meet once a month at someone's house for a Sunday evening meal.   I was fortunate enough to host the group in November and December so I took some pictures.

 Debbie J., Linda P., Lisa H., Ray M., Judy R.

 Judy R., Gaye R., Ray M., Pam P., Debbie J., Linda P.

 Dick J., Steve R.

 Stan M., Chris P.

George R., Sandy H., Dick J., Steve R.

 Gaye R., Serena D., Lisa H., Linda P., Dick J.

 Stan M., Ira P.

 Clint D., George R.

 Chris P.

 

Gaye R., Gay H., Serena D.

We are really a family  - some of us have been together as a group for at least 15 years.  We've raised our children together and loved each of them as our own.  Sandy and I couldn't ask for a better group of Christian friends.

 

You: Create - One More Time

I LOVE to crochet - especially baby afghans!  I almost always have at least one such project in progress but over the summer I had slacked off crocheting.  There are a couple of gals who are going to have babies in the next few months so I got busy crocheting.

I actually finished this afghan about three weeks ago.  Melanie's shower was this morning so I decided I needed to post photos and link to Gitz's You:Create blog post.

The pattern I used was a filet type of crocheting with seven rows of hearts.  While I was crocheting the third row of hearts I got the idea to put the baby's name in it.  So I searched for a filet crochet alphabet and worked on exactly how I could get Lainee in the space I had.  In my first attempt the letters were too small so I ripped it out and tried another way.  After ripping out about five times I finally got it looking like I wanted.  I originally thought I'd have three rows of hearts below the name and three rows above the name but it got to be too long.

All week I had planned on crocheting some baby shoes for the shower also.  Finally last night while I was watching the Texas Rangers win the ALCS, I did crochet these three pairs.  It took me about 4.5 hours to completely finish all three pairs.

I can't wait to meet Miss Lainee Ann and see her wearing her little shoes!

Kaiden and his new trucks

When we were in Houston recently, we bought Kaiden some new trucks.  Of course, I took lots of pictures of him playing with the trucks!

Then today I learned how to use Shape Collage!  This is the letter K.

 

and this is a heart!

 

Another Week of You: Create

From my previous post you may know that another blogger, Gitzen Girl, is having a You: Create project on Thursdays.  Her father passed away suddenly right after my last post and it has been a very trying time for Sara - she could definitely use your prayers.  Her link this week is some things her dad created shortly before his death.

I've been working the past week or so on a digital scrapbooking project as a surprise for some friends and intended to share a sneak peek on this week's You: Create. Instead I'm going to share a photo I took today. (Actually I took this Thursday but we have been on the road and have not had very good Internet connections.)  I've been working on trying to be more creative with my photography and this picture is one of my better attempts at creativity (at least in my opinion.)  It is straight out of the camera without any editing.

The picture was taken at a rest area on I-35 in Iowa (ironic since Gitz lives in Iowa) as we were traveling to International Falls, Minnesota. There was some beautiful scenery off to the north and east so I grabbed my camera to get some pics.  There was also some beautiful flowers so I snapped quite a few pics.  I tried to upload some more but Blogger isn't cooperating for me right now.  Maybe I can later!


There is a very interesting story about our stop at this rest area in Iowa.  As we got out of the pickup, I commented on a motor home that was parked next to us - saying it was about the size we would need.  After we took care of our business, I walked back to the pickup to get the camera and noticed that this motor home was from Jack Sisemore Travelland in Amarillo.  About that time a gentleman stepped out of it and I asked him if he was from Amarillo.  We started to visit and found out we had quite a few things in common including that our daughters graduated from the same high school in the same year.  Turns out the girls know each other because they both ran track in high school.  Such a small world!

You: Create - Week 2

One of my very favorite blogs to read is Gitzen Girl - she is so very inspiring!  If you have never read her blog, hop over there and spend some time reading her story.  Anyways, she decided to have a weekly creativity challenge on Thursdays called You: Create.  I have really been wanting to do some digital scrapbooking but never seem to get around to it.  So I thought this might be my chance to do a page or two a week.  Well, it didn't happen this first week and not exactly this week either!  But I did use my digital scrapbooking skills to create a birthday party invitation for my little buddy, Kage!  He is the grandson of my very good friend, Ramona, who suddenly passed away last February due to a brain hemorrhage.  Her two children and my girls grew up together almost like brother and sisters.  So Kage is like a grandson to us!  Here's the 8.5 X 11 invitation I made!