November 30, 200

Here's a couple pictures of Anna and Jonathan's new bed. It has a privacy panel on each bed and can actually be put in the middle of a room as a room divider effectively splitting the room half on each side. Because of Jonathan's age, it's been put against a wall giving a high barrier to keep him from falling out. Miss AnnaBell is so proud of herself for having a "big girl's" bed, she can't see straight! Jonathan's pretty pleased, too---proudly showing off his new stars on the ceiling that glow when the lights are off. Heather said to tell all who helped "thank you"....

I'm happy to report our tree is up! Never happens this early, but Rog and Andrew an George were hip-deep in the project before I got home and it seemed more practical to carry on than quit!

The boys had a great time. They used the collection of wooden ornaments (many of which I've had 40+ years). We usually do red apples or bows or something to make the tree look more uniform, but just we jus went with an overall conglomerate....it's still very pretty.

We got some cute pics of the kids and decided to share a few.

November 20, 2008

Today is the last day of recaps at work (getting the new medication sheets in the books for th new month). It has to be done by midnight tonight, so today will be a long day.

I'm happy to report little Anna's hand is okay. She'll probably lose a fingernail or two but it's a much less serious injury than we feared with no breaks.

I'm starting a quilting class on January 12th to make a Pioneer Sampler quilt. You can see the quilt by going to the following websit and double clicking on the picture of the book...it will blow up the quilt quite a bit bigger.

http://www.amazon.com/Quilt-Pioneer-Sampler-Block-Party/dp/0922705437/ref=tag_tdp_sv_edpp_i

I'm not clever enough to figure out how to make it show a picture here.

Wow! The caption reads, "The Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles an ant when observed using ground-based telescopes... The nebula lies within our galaxy between 3,000 and 6,000 light years from Earth." (taken by the Hubble Telescope).

We had quite a day around here. Recaps came about 11a and I made it to work around 1pm...worked until almost 6:30. Meanwhile, back at Heather's, AnnaBell got her fingers slamed in a door. Just as I got off work, I had a phone message from Roger to meet them at the hospital in Red Bluff.

We're happy to report her fingers are injured, but not broken. She's likely to lose a fingernail or two and ER was amazing. They actually had her x-rayed and sent us on our way within about 20 mins. She was a little doll and did very well. She was shaky and appeared kinda shocky, but was a little trooper. She was asleep instantly when they got her home in her bed.

On the other hand, I suspect her Mama isn't so hot....just more trauma at the end of a long day. We are grateful that the Lord was gracious and Anna (and Heather) will be okay.

Pictures - November 15, 2008 - read second

Wow! Blogging is soooo much harder than posting on Facebook. It takes forever to download pictures this way. If you're able, go look at Facebook.com as there are full albums of our pictures there.

November 15, 2008

Among many requests/complaints, I've decided to relent and blog again. I'm really enjoying Facebook but many of you are unable/unwilling to join, soooo....

Quick update: Most of the two families are sick with cold/flu/URI. Heather's sicker than the rest of us, of course. I was hoping to escape with a small cold, but looks like it's going to hit my lungs after all (I've fought the good fight for five days and thought I'd beat it). Oh well. Welcome to winter!

Heather appears to be doing well in school (as you can read on her blog http://2homeschool.blogspot.com/). She says she's enjoying it a lot. All the kids are growing like weeds, including Jake in Texas.

I bought a sewing machine and have been making clothes for the little ones (three dresses for AnnaBell). I'm working on PJ's for Jonathan at the moment.

My Needleworks group here at the Lake decided to show some of us how to quilt, so now I'm hooked. I made one block paper piecing and loved it (see picture of a Christmas tree). Very precise.

Unfortunately, classes don't start until next year. Bad choice of time to get interested, I suppose.

I'm taking sewing lessons that came with my machine...today is the third class of four. Learning LOTS. Sewing is so much easier than I remember (Haven't sewn in many, many, many years). Guess the new machines are taking most of the work out of it! Fortunately, I have a wonderful friend, Karen, who's willing to answer my weird sewing questions morning, noon and night to help me get through it!

I'm enjoying Facebook a lot. There's games, gifts to others (little e-mail icon stuff), photo albums, etc. If you use the controls to limit to "friends only", nobody can see site except those you clear.

Well, enough chatter. I'll try and download some pictures now. I think they're pretty self-explanatory. Jake is at a Pee Wee roundup in Ft. Worth earlier this year in this picture, I think.

Hhhmmmm...can't get the pictures I want because they're on my flashdrive. This will take a little work and I'll have to add to this later.