Apples!!

I had my father peel and cut some apples, I didn't want them to spoil.......we didn't make an apple pie for Thanksgiving, because I had already made pumpkin and blueberry pies. So he did, and we had alot of apples......so I had enough to make apple pie and an Apple Crisp, which I absolutely love!! AJ helped me with both, he crinkled up the edges of the pie, and cut the slits.....he even indented happy faces, not sure they came out in the picture, but I thought that was cute. Anyway we just took out the apple crisp, and it smells so good. Will have that tonight with some cool whip. If you are feeling adventurous and want to create a different kind of apple pie, culinary classes at online universities should also be able to teach you the Top 10 apple pie recipes.

I started on AJ's Pokemon Mew today........got the head and body done.......will try to finish him up tonight.........I also want to start on Luigi for Aiden, and Woodstock from Charlie brown........I will do Woodstock in thread, he was my favorite character!!!

Well AJ is back to school tomorrow, and hopefully we can all get back on a better schedule.........I would like to say things will slow down, but then I remember that Christmas is right around the corner.

Apple Pie that AJ helped me with. This was before it was cooked.

Whew!!!

Well Thanksgiving is over and I am glad............it was a busy and stressful day, I forgot to take pictures...........I had to make 3 trips for things I forgot!! UGH!!! Oh well, the day went well, and we had a great dinner. We also got our Christmas Decorations up too. Anyway AJ said he wanted me to make an angel for his librarian, he is a proctor and she had a birthday right before break........he chose a pattern, which is above, and he wanted it done in thread.....so I used a Size 5 pearl thread..........it came out tiny........very cute!! I made it last night, and I took a picture of it next to the one I made a few months back with a G hook and WW yarn.........I also used the red felt for the mouth. I will also make her a bookmark too. He will take it to her Monday. I think this was really sweet of him to want to do. Now his friend Fernando wants me to make him one for a girl he likes. LOL

I took the boys to Chuck E Cheeses Wednesday......this is AJ and I, I was able to snap this while he was getting more coins to play the games.

This is Aiden sitting on my lap playing Mario Cart, his feet didn't reach the petals, so I had to press the gas pedal for him while he drove.

Both Aiden and AJ on some sort of bike game.........they had a blast...........then off to walmart we went...........bought a package of pokemon cards for AJ and they were 10 bucks, and on our way home, he opened it and found only 1 card, someone had opened the packages and took the cards out. So we had to go back which was no fun.

Yesterday I spent about 4 hours on my couch, I was not feeling well at all.........my whole body felt very heavy............today I was ok but a pain in my lower left side of my stomach.........I think stress and not enough sleep. AJ has a friend sleeping over tonight, but hopefully they will have an early night...........LOL Wishful thinking?

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

I did these Gingerbread boys last week I think.....they came out really cute, I used the Lion Brand pattern which you can find HERE. The boys like them

I also finished this Gingerbread house today. I started it back in October, and had it all done a few weeks back, well not all done, the box was put together, all "house" walls and roof were put on..........I did the trimmings today..........I think it came out really cute, and actually worked up fairly quickly, I didn't like cutting the box........that part was no fun at all, and even with it done and glued together, I still have to "trim"

This is the afghan I was doing for a friend of mine online.............I had sewn on the last strip upside down and had already added a border...........well I finally decided to fix it, so the border actually came off fairly easy, and I was able to get the last strip off without cutting into the border of the squares...........anyway you can't really tell in the picture, but it has a white border, then I added a second border, two sides in red, and two sides in green.

I made this Santa door hanger, I did two of them, one will be sent off to someone.........the pattern can be found HERE. It called for two Santa faces, but I did the Tree one instead of the second face. Now that I look at the patten, I did mine wrong.......I only printed out the actual pattern and not the pictures. :( oh well,

Tired!!

I am worn out.....my week started out somewhat slow, but sure ended busy...We had Amanda come over and help us set up a 25 gallon fish tank that Todd, our neighbor gave to AJ. We got it set up, so it was a late start for us with dinner and stuff...next day, when it was ready, we went to find fish...picked up Amanda from school, and then AJ from tutoring, and off we went..first one was expensive...so we went to a second one, but they had a very small fish section..although plenty of puppies I wanted!! LOL So off to a third one, that had a better selection and price range.....only got about 6 fish...they said not to put too many in with a new set up right away.....Our Betta died the next morning.....we exchanged him, and the new one is doing good, we had to get rid of one of the fish, it was chasing and attacking all the other fish...so he went bye bye!!

I had tons of laundry to catch up on, and still not completely done, tomorrow I will have bedding to do....My gingerbread house is about done.....no pictures to show........The Christmas afghan I was working on and had put the last strip on and didn't realize it was upside down until the border was on? Well I decided to fix it.....yep, I took the border out, and the strip, and luckily I had no problem!! It's done now, and I will wash it tomorrow to "soften" it up and take pictures and send her package off. I hope she likes it.

I am going to go watch the movie, Star Trek while laying in bed and hoping my back stops hurting.

It Snowed!

Well I am looking forward to more snow..........we actually had snow falling today........I woke up this morning not feeling well, just felt really tired.............I laid on the couch for about an hour, and decided nothing was getting done............and we had only rain outside.........and very cold temps. So I cleaned up the house a bit, worked on some crochet while waiting for AJ to come home, he had an appt for his flu vaccine........so off we went and it was raining when we left, but half way to the dr it was snowing hard.........of course it was too wet to show up on the ground, but it sure looked pretty falling........we then went to Wal-mart to pick up a few things and the wind picked up and at times it looked like a blizzard. I just wish it would snow more and actually show up on the ground.........oh well..........no more rain after tonight and the sun will show itself sometime tomorrow. I will survive without my snow. I have to. :(

I had two gingerbread crochet patterns, I want to do two for the boys..........So I let AJ pick from the two patterns I had, and got started on that, but laid down earlier tonight to watch tv and let the pain pills kick in.........shortly after taking off for the drs, my knees started to ache, then burn, then hurt something awful, by the time we got home, I was ready to cry, and then my back decided to join the "pain club" LOL........so I tried the heating pad on my back while laying down and that and the pills worked!! So I am off the computer now to work more on the gingerbread boy.

It's Raining Reindeers?

I did this reindeer tonight.........the mouth is kinda creepy looking to me......LOL could be the lighting, or something.

I also tested this pattern for Carrie at the Ville, he came out cute, and the antlers on the first reindeer were actually the corrected version..........so the antlers here at not the same as the pattern, or actually she reworded the pattern instructions and of course that came out alot easier.

Weekend went ok, my neighbor let her 12 year old daughter get a hicky from her bf.........now by Let her, I mean, she let her have her bf over at the house with no supervision.........then took both of them to a bar!! Call me old fashioned, but I think that is just wrong!!! First off, 12 is too young, second, it's just wrong to take them a bar to hang out........anyway.............the father got upset at first then told his 12 year old daughter that at least the bf could have done it right, by making it more "purplish" OMG???!! Am I just missing something????

Its been one busy and fast week........I can't believe how fast this month is...........going into the 3rd week already!! Both boys had dr appts this week, Aiden on Tuesday, I told him a check up only and made the mistake of telling him no shots.........well his exam went well, but he needed 4 shots, he was ok up until she finally poked him, but he cried for only a few minutes, he stopped when I started!! LOL I know silly at this stage of motherhood, but I think I felt more bad about telling him there was going to be no shots. Aiden weighs 34 pounds and is 39" tall. Anyway they set up us the next day to have a flu vaccine for him..........then Wednesday was AJ's turn, his was fine too, I need to get him more supportive shoes...........he has been having knee and back issues............I also need to get him to lose some weight, he has gained so much since last year. he is by no means fat, but he has gained. I want to stop it before he gains more. His problem is snacking, he will try to snack off of others plates. Anyway he needs to get flu shot too, so I need to remember to call the dr tomorrow and hopefully get him in tomorrow after school. I also had to run to the store both days of the appts, so by the time I get home it's dark already and I have to clean up and get dinner started, and I hate getting dinner ready so late. So far my phone is working ok...............but I haven't really talked much on it since the other day, so not sure if the hearing issue was resolved, I sure hope so, this phone is only about 5 months old.

Today was good, my dad got the washer to work, he called the company, who said a bad pump code can also mean the washer hoses and screens could be clogged, so he took it apart Wednesday and sure enough he found gunk in there, looked like what could have been a washcloth, a sock.......fuzzy crap.............and a Purex sheet............the company said that can happen in any washer.........because the repair man awhile back said those new 3in1 purex sheets are a waste as they get into the motor and ruin the washer......but we only found one, and I have been using them for awhile now......since they came out and finding only one is pretty good. A washcloth and a sock got through too. Anyway I am so glad to have my washer back, been doing bedding all day today...........and so far no errors with the machine. Woohooo!! LOL I hate going to the laundry mat.........I went the other night and did 3 loads and it came to about 18 dollars.......that adds up fast!! We have a lot of laundry. LOL I make AJ change out of his uniform when he gets home from school, so with that and 5 of us.......that sure adds up!!!

I am going to try to take a couple of days off from crocheting.........but I doubt I will last that long!!

I have been working on a Christmas lapghan..............finally got the last strip done today...........I had been super busy this week, and wanted to get it done, my hands are swollen and cramped up.....but I was sooooo happy when that last row went on, and I weaved in so many ends, then added a DC border, will add two more borders in red and white I think, but anyway, I laid it out flat to make sure I got all the ends weaved and cut..........when I realized that last strip was sewn on upside down!!!!!!!! OMG!! I can't believe I did that............I will have a lot of trouble fixing it as the border is already on............now I am debating on sending it or not..............I can't get past the mistake.............it's pretty, but man that was just awful seeing that

WooHoo Update

Can you spot the 3 heads? LOL that is upper from left, Chris, AJ and Aiden below.......we had them rake the leaves Sunday afternoon and of course they played in the huge pile!! They had a lot of fun, and it was nice weather for this too.........today is another nice and warm day to rake what has fallen since last week. They got the back yard done this past week too.

This was on Halloween night, Chris went as an escaped convict, Aj went as Thesora, from kingdom hearts.....I THINK........I have been getting it wrong. LOL of course there is my little Luigi!! They all had fun going out, I stayed home taking Halloween stuff down and putting up the Thanksgiving stuff

Another shot of them outside getting ready to leave.

I have been in a crochet funk.....not really wanting to crochet.......but I need to get busy as I have some things that need to get done and mailed..this Christmas afghan has two more rows then it will be done.

This is from Dishcloth Diaries, this is October's Pretty in Pink.......I did mine in light blue though, It came out really pretty.

I am going to enjoy this weekend, the weather is suppose to be nice both day, and today is very warm......so I want to get more leaves out front raked up. AJ is out with a friend, so it's just Aiden and me......I am hoping to get some crochet done and cleaning too, mainly dusting. I did have to fix the DVD shelf, I got the first season of NCIS, Season's 1&2 of Stargate Atlantis, and the first 3 seasons of Criminal Minds.

Hello!!

I was lucky enough to test another pattern for Allisha. This was for a snowman and snowball cowboy. They came out cute, and I wanted to add arms to the snowman and a few other things, but I am in a crochet slump.....I have not worked on crochet for almost a week. Allisha offered a a second hat pattern for the snowman........a sleeping cap........click her name above to be taken to her blog and from there, find out more info on her patterns.

I started this Christmas scene a few weeks back, and so far the tree is all I have done.....it will be a snow scene with a snowman..........

WE had this adorable Boxer puppy for all of one day........not even that, a night..........We named her Buttercup, she is cute and was super sweet to the whole family, she was a lap dog and followed you everywhere, she did not want to be alone..........I heard a few stories on why the original owner got her back from the first buyer.........but that is not really the issue of why we don't have her anymore.......I am allergic to dogs and cats......really any animal with fur............I knew I my allergy attacks could get bad..........but man was this the worst............ok maybe not the worst, but it sure felt that way........I had swollen, itchy eyes, that watered big time......and that is not the worse....my eyes got so swollen, I could barely see out of them, I looked really weird!!! anyway, my throat closed up..........I got huge welts all over, and my skin turned bright red............I was bringing up blood I itched so bad..........I am taking allergy medicine, but I have always had issues with them working.....at times, I was on two different kinds, with a nasal spray, and eye drops, and cream for the welts and rash..............anyway.......I end up in ER and didn't get any sleep.......maybe 30 minutes before AJ called from school because he forgot the car he made for his science class..........so my father brought that up to him, and them about a couple of hours after that, I was still awake, and miserable, and the school nurse called saying AJ was having bad stomach cramps.......so off to pick him up, I called the lady who I got the dog from, who wanted him back, she saw how awful and miserable I looked.........we miss Butter Cup already. I guess I will give up on getting a dog for now.........plus Aiden was scared and kept crying everytime the puppy tried to play with him.

Anyway since only getting 30 of sleep, I am going to go to bed early.........well after I read a bit of Twilight...........I was thinking I wanted to read this book slowly to enjoy it, but it's too good, and I just want to get through it, so I can start on the second book. I am huge Twilight fan........ok maybe not "HUGE" but I do love the movie and the books so far, and I have always loved Vampire stories..........not to mention the pictures of the Volturi vampires are hot!! LOL ok now its really time for me to head to bed. I am getting loopy.

Aiden's Birthday

my birthday boy and me.

I cheated and bought a cake.

He didn't care!! LOL

With this gifts....he had wrapped ones, but they were all in the back. Bags are so much easier. He had a lot of fun, and he really enjoyed family and friends here..........he loved the cake and ice cream, and the gifts....we took a video of him opening them.....no pictures on my part, since I was doing the video...but he would ask me to close my eyes when he opened each one, then bring it to me and say, "look what I got for me" LOL how cute.

BACK TO SCHOOL

Well above is the starting of my second Christmas project. I will take my time with this, and work on different Xmas projects, so I don't get bored.....this is the first two pieces of a Gingerbread House.......the front and back. I can't wait to see it done.

This bat was a CAL in my Amigurumi group......he came out really cute, and look at how "scary" he is on top of that haunted house!! LOL

Well it's back to school for AJ tomorrow. I will try to clean the living room, do the dusting and vacuuming......we are suppose to be getting rain Wednesday, so will get Aiden outside to play, maybe take him to the park.

Update with Pictures

Well here is my first Christmas decoration so far, she is too cute! I made her last week

I started these bats awhile ago, but needed to put the wings on them......I made 6 and hung them from my mantle

My handsome boys making chocolate cake this week

Aiden not a happy camper about being outside, this was at a garage sale down the street we walked to yesterday.......he is becoming a hermit not wanting to leave the house........he did play with toys yesterday too........so I was happy about that.

For the kids who might be reading this blog.....here is a picture of an old fashion board GAME.........not all game are electronic hand helds, or Wii remotes frantically moving through the air.........this was a game AJ and I started last week.....although he has not finished it with me yet.........

Heart Shaped

I made Pork Chops and baked potatoes for dinner tonight.....I got out potatoes and look at what I grabbed.......two heart shaped potatoes!!! how cute!!

I tested this pattern for Allisha, and I can't get to her site on Etsy, as Etsy is down, but will post her link here tomorrow..........This was an elf girl, and she is cute!!!

Hello!

I took the boys to Cow Town when Aiden's father was in town a couple of weeks ago.....and we took our neighbor, Kori along too.........this is them in the "Out house" none of them were very impressed........they could not imagine using this in the middle of the night or anytime they said. LOL Well I am certainly glad I didn't either.

My two favorite boys in the whole wide world!!!

in the old fashioned church.........these buildings were original...........and I am still always fascinated when I go there.

This is an ornament made by me, I in a crochet a long group, and I liked this one, I have not stiffened it yet.

This heart pattern gave me fits, I did not like it one bit..........but I managed to wing my way through the pattern.

I had 4 loads of laundry that I did today, and actually got it done considering I had company.......the boys and I went to a parade honoring Fireman, and I will post pictures tomorrow of that.....it was cold today, but we had a blasts with some friends, and then they came over to visit for awhile............

It's raining; it's pouring. The old man is snoring. He went to bed and bumped his head, And he wouldn't get up in the morning. LOL

woohoo I know someone famous!!! Luigi....I always knew he was real!!!! LOL ok ok, well the very handsome guy playing Luigi is famous in my eyes........and looking darn cute!!! this is his halloween costume, very cute, he wanted to be Luigi, and I found the costume at Wal Mart, for twenty bucks.......the moustache sticks to his face, so I didn't put that on.......my luck he won't wear it anyway.......but he is ready for halloween.........I want to stay home and pass out candy, never got to do that, and my knees just can't take all that walking.......man do they burn today, and my neighbors daughter who sees me as her "second" mom, was leaning on my knee and man did it hurt!!! The rain doesn't help........but I will take some ibuprofen, and collapse in bed soon..........I don't think all the running around at the park with Aiden the other day helped. LOL oh well I had fun. I felt like a kid again.........

This is a pattern I tested for Allisha, they are called Sweetie Ghosts......really cute huh? She has not posted the pattern yet, so will link up to that when she does........anyway I named them AJ and Aiden...........

Finished the second Dragonfly pillow today.....I mean yesterday.........or rather Wednesday......ok ok you know me, it's not the next day until I got to bed and wake up........so I am still in Thursday right now. LOL..........man it's cold out too...........40 degrees right now, but I am loving it, now for the snow...........I am soo ready for the snow.........and I have a few "new" neighbors around here, who don't believe that I wear my flip flops in the snow............well I do......and I really need to get back to Hawaii to find more of them............I wanted to buy a whole case, but they didn't have any.....so I settled for the two pairs they had left.........AJ broke my other pair wearing them with wet feet.......oh man I hate when someone else wears my flip flops..........they are only use to MY feet!!! LOL.............well I am tired.........but will finish watching some tv, and listen to some music, and then go into Dream land..........

Well I finally got one pillow done for the living room, I am needing a total of 4, two on each couch......this was my 4 dragonfly square, and Aiden wanted to pose with the pillow...he had been watching the movie Space Chimps and took time out from that to lay on the pillow which he gave his approval!! LOL.......I could not get it to come out very well with the digital flash, and didn't want to mess with the camera.......so retook it with my phone below.

I like how it came out..........and its comfortable.............now I just need to get started on the second one which I will tomorrow.......one of the groups I am in, is doing an October charity for a hospital, donating baby stuff and hats/mittens........well I have never been any good with hats, but I think I did a decent job on the ones below

I didn't measure them, but will tomorrow.........I got the pattern from April......as soon as she post the pattern, I will link to her blog........there are 4 size hats as you can see..........the smallest being a small preemie.......the mittens are suppose to have a ribbon, but I didn't add one yet........I folded down the scalloped edge on one, so you can see it folded and unfolded..........I did these in a soft peach yarn............I don't have any baby yarn...........but I did find some soft WW yarn in other colors...........this was a new skein.......and these 4 hats and one pair of mittens took the whole skein........it was one of the smaller skeins though. I will be working on these and another pattern I found for baby hat............with me not doing any swaps right now, I will have some time for this.............the last charity I did was making squares for VJGC I really enjoyed doing them, and knowing that they were being made into blankets for kids who needed them, and would really like them.

I am tired, so going to go lay down..........ohhh Aiden slept all through the night last night with no problems, I was worried he would wake up sick.........today he was fine........woohoo........

Is it Saturday?

Ok well seeing as how it's 1 am in the morning, it's already Sunday......but I don't really see it as Sunday until have gone to sleep and woke up. LOL......I made the above snowflakes for a swap at the Ville.........I can't find the other pictures of the other stuff I sent her, so apparently they are still on my phone.....I hope anyway......she had a pink amigurumi pig on her wish list that I sent her and it was too cute......I had a hard time parting with it, then my neighbor got upset that I had mailed it off too. LOL.........

Took this picture of Aiden and myself last night, he was being so goofy, and kept saying take a picture high........I could only guess that he meant hold the camera high. LOL.........Today was a busy day, and I soo wanted to just relax, and do a couple loads of laundry........but that turned out to be 3 loads, and I still have to put 3 baskets of clothes away..........I would not have had so much, if I had not gone shopping, but AJ has outgrown all his clothes..so the only thing he could fit into and not look dorky were his school uniforms.........and I even needed a few more pairs of pants........so off we went to lunch and then shopping..........I managed to find 4 more pairs of uniform pants...........I had thought I only found 3 but I found one more I had dropped in the van..........anyway...........found him some jeans and some really nice long sleeve shirts..........really nice!!! he will look very handsome in them........he picked out a shirt that I didn't really care much for, but hey, I don't have to wear it, it actually looks nice on him.............it is a button down blue cordaroy type of shirt....I am sure I spelled that word wrong, but I think most of you will get it...........anyway he liked it as well as these weird funky pants he wants to wear to the gym...which he and I really need to go.............he needs to lose weight........I don't bother him too much about it, but I dont' want to see him gain more, and his dr says he is a bit overweight.........and mainly it's that he and his friends sit in front of the tv...........I am having to shop in the mens department for him!!! I know that boys clothes are weird in sizing.........even his friends wear mens sizes now too...........so I guess I can't complain too much.......but man........prices are higher in that department!! LOL

Anyway I have my crochet swaps caught up, and I am going to steer clear of them for awhile, Aiden is having a birthday this month, and I also want to do some things for the house, I need to get busy on the second afghan for the living room, and the pillows for the couch too.........I have one done, just ran out of yarn, and am too lazy and tired to go in the back of the house, pull out the yarn totes and look for another skein........watch...........tomorrow I will go look and find out I am out!! UGH!! just my luck!!! Two more loads of laundry tomorrow..........ugh, not if I do my fathers clothes too..........I am getting really tired of the dirty clothes.....I think they are piling up on purpose........I think they are out to get me...........and with that, I must get some sleep now...........I am talking crazy!!!

Night

Update

AJ got new glasses a few weeks back, I really like these much better than the ones he had before.

My little Aiden, who looks really handsome in brown.

This is AJ and Aiden standing in front of the blocks at AJ's school, the students made self portraits and this is what the school did with them.

Close up of AJ's portrait.

Aiden being goofy

This is the witch I just tested for Allisha again, she is the one who did the frankenstein and dracula patterns. The witch comes with a potion bottle and book of spells, I will add the names to the book and bottle later this week. and take a better picture, camera battery is dead.