Miscellaneous stuff

Well here it is, the 27th of December and all the packages have been opened and played with. We ventured out on the 26th to spend some gift certificates for the kids and now they are happy for the time being. Still working on my "Gingerbread Cottage" by CCN and hope to have that done, completed, finished in time for the New Year. I really want to start something with more brighter colors to it, so I'm going to go out on Saturday to my LNS and see what kind of Valentine's Day stuff they have in stock. Nothing else to report, except that Chris (DH) and I celebrated our 15 year wedding anniversary on the 23rd. I STILL cannot believe it's been 15 years. Time has gone by so fast and I love him more now than I did when we first got married, if that's possible. I took a picture of my nieces and nephew with my kids at the in-law Christmas and hope to post that soon. The last picture of the "grandkids" was when my father-in-law took the picture and that was when Sam (my baby) was about 15-18 months old, so we were overdue for a new picture. Hopefully it has turned out alright. We desperately need a new camera, the 2.0 megapixel one is just not cutting it any longer.

Stupid Ice Dams

Well 'tis the season for tons of ice and snow on our roof. Well husband did as good of a job as he could snow-raking the roof to get the snow and some of the ice off. BUT, my windows in my living room, bathroom and bedroom are leaking!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will be glad when the sun melts some of this crappy stuff off my roof!!. My husband went out over the weekend, on a ladder no less and chopped away at some of the ice and removed it. But with the thawing and refreezing of the stuff on the roof it................ well, just leaks into my house. I'm not a happy camper at this point but there is really nothing I (we) can do about it except just to keep the roof and gutters semi-ice free. But this is Wisconsin remember so the weather WILL change. Oh how I wish for either Spring to show up or move to someplace warmer........... a girl can dream, can't she??

SNOW DAY!!

The top picture is my WIP of "GingerBread Cottage" by CCN. In typical Milwaukee (or Wisconsin) fashion, we are having a snowstorm. The kids got an unexpected day off from school and are enjoying it with the neighbor kid. Nichole decided that today was a jammy kinda day so she is taking FULL advantage of it. We were supposed to get an ice storm but we will happily take the snow over ice anyday. It looks pretty but I don't want to shovel it so I'll leave that for my husband to do when he gets home from work. LOL

Snowy Days in Milwaukee

I thought I would share a couple of pictures of the snow (so far this season) in my neighborhood. It looks so pretty but I wish it was warmer (like above freezing at least). The green house is mine. And nope, we don't have Christmas decorations on the house, no place to put them.

I'm about 1/2 done with a project called "Gingerbread Cottage" by Country Cottage Needleworks. I'm liking how it's turning out and hopefully I'll post a picture sometime over the weekend.

Finished projects!!

I just came back from my LNS and got these pieces back from the finishers. The top one is a Country Cottage Needleworks ornament (from the JCS 2007 ornament issue), the middle picture is a SamSarah Pearl and the bottom one is for my daughter and it's also a SamSarah Pearl pattern. Husband should be happy that I didn't charge anything this go around. Use up all my mad money, now what to save up for next??

When my husband went grocery shopping last Saturday, there were all these signs for Sweetest Day, so he thought he'd better buy me some flowers and I was surprised. I haven't gotten roses in years. Usually different kinds of flowers but not roses, so these were extra special to me.

Here are my 3 kids. Nichole is the oldest at 14 (my god where did the time go??), Nathan is in the middle and he's 10 and my baby, Sam is 7. This is our annual Christmas picture. Cute huh??