Mother's Day 2013

We went for lunch at La Cabaña after church.  The whole family was there except grampa.  After that we went to Talltree Arboretum.  What fun!  All kinds of walking trails with beautiful plantings!!  We got a year membership, so we'll definitely be back!

 All my parents' grandkids, ages: 23, 15, 13, 12, 12, 17, 10, 8, 5, 2, 2mo.

 The Arboretum has a VERY cool train set!  Wow, this thing is awesome!  It's a HUGE diaroma!

Hamalot

Sophie's end-of-semester performance at theater class.  It was hilarious!!!  Wish I videoed it instead of pictures! LOL  But, pictures will have to do...  She was Lady Patience, Lady in Waiting to the Princess.  She spend her time keeping score of the Princess' game of solitaire and doing her needlework.  Sorry for the horrible darkness, but that room is dark and I don't have a great camera.

Christian has earned the Mitchel Award!!!!!!

CHRISTIAN EARNED THE MITCHEL AWARD TONIGHT!!!! YES, I AM SHOUTING!!!! This is the award in Civil Air Patrol that earns him entry into the military as an E3 instead of E1. It's sort of the Boy Scout equivalent of the Eagle. This is the 10th award, and there are only 3 left, which are much harder to earn of course. I'm sooo proud of 2nd Lt. Burns!!!! Now he can also earn scholarships from CAP, along with a buncha other perks. His ultimate goal is the International Cadet Exchange Program.

Hansel and Gretel

If you look closely you can even see them dropping bread crumbs and the bird eating them...  The pink is the same pattern, but in shadow instead of colors.  My niece LOVED it!!!!  The pics of her not in it has no tie, but I didn't know if I'd need to put it on before I had her try it on.  I totally made it up, no pattern, and wasn't sure exactly how it'd fit once it was on her.  If it were a smidge more elastic it wouldn't have needed the tie, but oh well... One pic shows it best, but in the others it's harder to tell that the hem is angled.  I would have liked to take more angles but it was cold and I didn't want niece outside toooo long... LOL

Sophie turns 13yo

My BABY is 13yo!!!  Presents were just after breakfast this year. 1st up, an itunes gift card

 Note pads with her initials and gel pens

 Opening colored lined paper

 Kindle Fire with case

 Hard to tell what it is, but she also got 5 sets of summer jammies

 Teenagers sit around and watch Doctor Who all day on their birthday, with their cousin

 She wanted to go bowling

 And to Cracker Barrel for dinner (the card her cousin made her was HILARIOUS!)

 And finally, after her shower we did her cake and icecream.  Then she and her cousin watched more Doctor Who and a movie till nearly midnight.

Another dress for niece

This one is a halter-style, which she loves.  (I made a similar one last summer with also a ruffle around the neckline)  To account for last year's bagginess at the back I added elastic from center underarm seam about 1/2 way to the center back.  That fixed the problem :)  It's got a velcro closure at the back, and bow.

I actually made something for ME!

I NEVER make something for ME!  But, for my birthday my sister-in-law Janet gave me a gift card for JoAnn Fabrics.  I LOVED this fabric!! I had no idea what I was going to use it for yet... but I knew I wanted it.  I decided to make knitting needle rolls with it.  Now my needles are nice and orderly.

 My sets of 6" DPNs

 Center left are short circulars. Top are longer circulars.  Right are 9" straights.