stuff I've been makin'

I have now made 3 pairs of these. So cute and tiny :) This isn't my pair, but the picture from the pattern. I keep forgetting to take a pic before I give them away. Mine were either blue or green, with brown straps.


The pattern called this a capelet. I'd call it a shrug, but whatever.


A neck cozy.
I also made a very warm and cozy shawl. I started it about 7 months ago. Not terribly exciting, but nice to wear around the house on insanely cold days.

I've been contemplating a hat, but I keep finding funner patterns :) My next project just might be some scrapbooking though. It just takes a little time to get organized with that. I'm getting there though!

big night out

A couple of weekends ago we had the opportunity to drive down to Indianapolis and attend the governor's inaugural dinner celebration. What an interesting night; it's not every day that we get to dress up and attend a fancy dinner :) It was a lot of fun and a neat chance to hear our governor and lieutenant governor speak.

And since this picture was taken about a week and a half ago... I think I need to schedule a haircut for my husband.

watering hole

Do you remember this pic?

Well it still looks like that, only much more snowy and frozen. And this morning while I was eating breakfast, I noticed that we had a lot of birds in our back yard trees. It was a little unusual to me, but I didn't really wonder why. Then I noticed that a lot of the birds were flying up close to our house and staying there. So I look out and see our frozen yard with a small puddle of unfrozen water where our sump pump is dumping, and seven birds surrounding this puddle, drinking out of it. It seems in our -15 degree morning, our puddle was the only unfrozen water in the near vicinity. We had created a watering hole :) Of course as soon as I went for the camera they all flew away and didn't come back. I'll try to get a picture tomorrow. It sure was funny to me.

new 'do for the new year

I've been highlighting my hair for about 13 years. Dark is new for me. What do you think?

more Cali trip

So it took me a while to get the rest of the pictures off of my phone. That's right, my phone. The day our nephews were born, my camera battery died, and all I had to take pictures with was my camera phone. I'm vowing always to take my charger with me at all times now :) Just kidding.

Anyway, here are a few pictures of the final day of our California trip.
Xander Mellema, born 12/21 and weighing 4lbs 6oz.

Jax Mellema, born 12/21 and weighing 4lbs 2oz.
And here's one of Xander's hair!

We were so unbelievably blessed to be in town when they arrived! If it had been a day later, we would have missed them. And even though I hate videos where I narrate, I had to take one of the excitement, seeing them for the first time. I even got them mixed up, that's how new they were :)

Happy New Year!!

We were privileged to get to host some of our college friends at our house this year for a New Year's Eve party. What a blast!


The Daly family


Getting settled in to the dinner table


Malachi's not going to be left out of the festivities

Lincoln likes to play with Uncle No No


Such a sweet face


Charades


Peter Pan's Ranch???


Guessing


More games... and it was getting goofier as time wore on :)


Ethan had us going with a riveting game of "would you rather"... some enjoyed it more than others really.


What a wonderful night, filled with lots of serious reconnecting as well as tons of laughter!