Sewing Project

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Thanksgiving

Despite the fact that we were miles away from most of our family, and that Stephen had to work all day - we still had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner and much to be thankful for. Uncle Steve graciously offered to treat our family out to dinner, so sweet! His friend was visiting from Iowa, she's super nice. We met them at the Golden Corral. Our first time eating there. Oh my gosh they had SO much food to choose from, it was a feast! And the turkey, mashed potatoes & gravy, the sweet potato casserole....mmmmmmm. And then the assortment of desserts. Uncle Steve wanted to go to this new location because they had the chocolate drip fountain and he thought the kids would love it. He was right. I'm not sure how many plates they got of chocolate dipped food. The kids can't wait to go back there! 

Thanks again Uncle Steve!

In my previous post I mention how Madeline and I are working on scarves over Thanksgiving break. I finished sewing one of them, I really like how it turned out. I'm going to sew another for Madeline.

So Madeline learned how to make a simple chain stitch. She crocheted 2 yards in length of a chain stitch. It was when she had to connect the 2nd row that it became difficult. She got really discouraged. So I've been helping her with the rest of the rows. I'm also working on a scarf for James. We're probably half way done with both scarves. Man are my finger muscles sore this week! :)

So how many of you went shopping today!? I've been browsing the ads the last few weeks and wanted to pick up some toys, clothes and kitchen items. So I woke up early and left the house at 6am this morning. Surprisingly it wasn't too crowded, I think all the crazies went out at midnight. I hit up all these stores, probably spent about $100 today and got A LOT of stuff. So I'm pretty pleased. We spent the rest of today getting our Christmas boxes out of the attic and hanging Christmas lights on the house. Looking forward to the last 2 days of this weekend.

New Sewing Blog Post

There's a new post on my sewing blog, come check it out!

Sewing Blog

Come visit my sewing blog and see my newest project I just finished. I actually did 2 sewing projects this week but forgot to take a pic of the other one because I was in a hurry to mail it off.

Sewing Project

I just completed a sewing project,

come check it out on my Sewing Blog.

Latest Sewing Project

Check out My Sewing Projects Blog, I just finished sewing blankets for twin baby boys.

Enjoying Fall

It's hard to believe we're approaching mid October already! Yesterday we had parent/teacher conference with Mrs. Moore, Madeline's kindergarten teacher. She gave Madeline a very good report, she said Madeline is a wonderful student, always willing to help out, she's very artistic, and blossoming out of her shell. She participates by raising her hand and answering questions and is doing well in her studies. Mrs. Moore would like her to focus and study extra with her letter recognitions - there are some students mainly those that came from preschools that have the advantage of knowing their letters better. But she's not concerned at all with Madeline. Stephen and I were happy that Madeline received such a good report. We're proud of our baby girl.
Last night I baked some pumpkin bread. I had some facebook comments asking for the recipe so I will share it here. It turned out super yummy and moist!

• 1 15oz. can of pumpkin
• 3.5 cups of flour
• 2 tsp of baking soda
• 3 cups of sugar or splenda
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup of vegetable oil
• 1.5 tsp of salt
• 2 tsp of Cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp of pumpkin spice
• 2/3 cups of water

Blend ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Pour into 2 greased loaf pans. Bake at 350 for 1 hour or until you can stick a butter knife in and nothing comes on it. Enjoy!

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For those of you that didn't hear via Facebook, I got my haircut this weekend. I cut 4 inches off and had long bangs cut too. The new do feels great!

Chocolate Mint with Pink...

Come check out my latest sewing project on my sewing blog...

Update blog & Madeline

I just added 2 new posts to my Easy Sewing Projects blog. Please come see them!

I sewed a blanket for Kell's new adopted daughter, Evy.

And a blanket for Vanessa's baby boy due in August!

Madeline's been sick with a cough for about 1.5 weeks now. Taking her to the pediatricians this morning to see if she has bronchitis or strep. If she does she won't be able to finish her swim lessons this week. :-( Asking for prayers that she gets better real soon, thanks!