I finally made it back!!!

I know!!! It has been awhile! But I am back.... but not in black... cause it doesn't match the dog hair at my house! Anyway... alot has been going on. I have so catching up to do!

Thanksgiving 2008 we went to the Black Hills again this year. This was the first year that I got to spend Thanksgiving with some of my brothers and thier families.... I am not sure they thought it was a cool as I did since we kind of crashed the party! LOL! But it was terrific seeing everyone! here are some pics:











Here is the whole crew! Man are we a cool bunch or what???


My brother Tim....














Brother Tom and sister Janelle






Brother Bruce and his son Gerald

My brother Dan, me and brother Tom















Gerald's daughter Miranda (Gerald's daughter, my great niece), Sylvia (Miranda's grandma, Gerald's daughter and my sister inlaw) , Nash (sister Janelle's son and my nephew) And Gerald (my Nephew) This is the shortest and tallest pic.... sylvia is 4' 8" and Nash is 6'5" Too funny!!!

Purse Swap 2008

WOW! I had a great time doing this swap! And my partner Vivian was so much fun! Look at all the awesome stuff she sent!

Thanks Vivian for being such a great partner!

Finally!

Geeeeshhhh! It has been a while since I have blogged! I will try to get caught up and get better at this.

Me and Jason went out to the My sister's house In the Black Hills for our anniversay...9 years! Can you believe it? It doesn't seem that long... maybe it does for him!!!! LOL! Anyway Sturgis Rally was going on while we were there. So we went in to sturgis one day while we were there.... cruised around the hills one days went to eat at the Alpine Inn. And went with Hud and Nash (my 17 and 18 year old nephews) to Lake mitchel and both of them , my sister and Jason went cliff jumping! I was a Photographer..... maybe a chichen too! But it was a 40 foot jump and I'm not crazy! so here are some pics.... It was hard to get good one of them while they were jumping... but my sister was the funniest! she was scared spitless to do it but had made up her mind she was going to do it and she is the one that I caught on camera the best! Here are the jumpers after their adventure!

Here we are during our hike around Lake Sylvan:

And here is my sister Janelle, my brother Bruce and his wife Sylvia :

We had a great time while we were there. But it is always good to come home too!

Just wanted to show off my cool stuff that I recieved from my partner in the "Kit and Kabootle" swap on crochetville. My partners name was Kimberly she was from GreenBay, WI. I was so lucky to have two great partners for two swaps in a row!!! It is always a hoot to meet new crocheters. I havent joined any more swaps for the last month or so... waiting for the summer purse swap.... that one is alwas fun! Anyway... here they are.... I was VERY spoiled! Tons of fun stuff!

One of the best things was the chocolate hazelnut stash tea.... if I didn't know if chocolate tea sound so good... but I am hear to tell you that it is way yummy! It has become my new favorite!

cville 2008 spring scarf swap

I just recieved a package from my swap partner in the mail today!!! And just look at it all!






This tote bage is just the coolest! I put it right to use a took Jakey D. to the dog park today. It was perfect for a skein of yarn , a hook , and a sissors AND a leash and keys! Plus all the cool stationary stuff! I love it!

This is the scarf.... isn't it beautiful? I adore it and was bummed that it was over 80 degrees today and was too hot to wear it!
Coffee, Tea, AND Cocoa!!! WOW! Bath fizzies, lip blam, sticky notes, mini note cards!

This swap was alot of fun! Thanks Lorena!

Grovin' and Farout!

Well here I am again.... I should be crocheting but I love my computer! LOL! So I thought I would share one of my lastest project with all of you. I joined the "Groovin" CAL and started a "Babette" inspired afghan. I named it "farout". It is made up of all 2 round, 4 round, and 8 round grannies. All done in scrap or already aquired Red Heart yarn. So it will be really colorful when I am done. This is how far I am on my colored grannies:

These are 1 rounds that I am still working on:

And these are 2 round one that I have completed... mind you that each pise has 10 grannies in it!

And this is a pic of the 4 and 8 round grannies that are done:

I still have about 80 colored squares to do and then on to the black ones... They are what makes up the peace sign in the middle of the ghan.... This is my pattern drawn out:

I am trying to finish this ghan befor May. I think I am going to put a black border

on it with maybe purple or orange too! What do you all think of it? I think it is going to definately be "Farout!".

Holiday swap

The Holiday swap was interesting... my partner was from Kuwait. It was very interesting.... and harder than I thought it would be. She was muslin and did not celebrate Christmas so to send a holiday package without Christmas was harder than I thought. I wanted to share pics of the great stuff my partner sent me.

My partner name was Athba and she is due to have a baby in March. It was fun to recieve yarn from Kuwait and the shawl that my cat is sitting on is beautiful! I love swaps!