Christmas Day and Cute Grandsons

On Christmas Eve, DS and I made lefse, a Norwegian potato pancake, which is a Christmas tradition for us.  I rolled them out and he cooked them.  Yum Yum!!

The stockings are filled and presents ready under the tree.

Eli's shirt says he's been a good boy all year!

 Christmas breakfast before opening presents.

Eli in the shirt I made for him.  It's kind of big for him, but that's OK.

Eli and me.  What a sweetie!

Jonah is passing out the gifts.

How many new toys can a boy play with???

Jonah wearing the pilot's hat from his uncle and the shirt I made for him.

We had a wonderful time and we'll be sad to go.  DS will be deployed in about 2 weeks.  Today we move on to Florida so we can be with Abigail for her birthday!  More excitement!

JONAH APPROVES OF NEW CAMPER!

Civil War Block from Saturday.

Eli playing with toys from the toy box in the new camper (5th wheel).  There's a cabinet under the refrigerator where a box fits perfectly.  I filled it with some books and toys for the grandkids.

Jonah was very happy with our new camper!  The cabinets above the table are filled with my sewing supplies and fabric.

He wanted me to take his picture, but then he would hide his face!

I'm using my little HST quilt on my bedside table in the camper.  I'm going to make one for DH's side too, but I think it will be 1" squares.

This counter top is perfect for doing my rotary cutting and ironing seams.

We have a little Christmas tree by the kitchen sink.

We can't believe there is so much storage.  Even with all the Christmas presents we packed, there is still more room.

Thanks for everyone's nice comments.  I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!

ALMOST READY

Almost ready for Christmas!  All shopping is done, presents are mailed or ready to take with us and most baking is finished.  I still need to make spritz cookies - the favorites.  

Here is Jonah's shirt.  Since his Mommy and Daddy are both pilots, he needs a shirt with airplanes on it.  We'll be with them for several days before and for Christmas day and then will go to DS#2/DIL's for Abigail's 3rd birthday and to spend some time with them.  

I quilted the little HST quilt with clamshells.  I found it very hard to stay on the lines!  I think that's one big reason why I like free motion quilting best.  I originally saw this little quilt here and it was made by and sent to her from Kathie at Inspired by Antique Quilts.

You can see the quilting lines better on this one.

Don't work too hard getting ready for Christmas!  

ALMOST LOST IT!

Thursday morning, I was checking a few blogs and when I went to leave a comment on someone's blog, all of a sudden a message came up saying that my blog had been disabled due to a perceived violation!  I was shocked !!  I looked at their terms of service and didn't see that I had done anything wrong.  I was really upset, especially since I had not printed out any of it (and I knew someone would say, "I told you so!" - you know who you are - Hee Hee).  So I sent them an email and hoped I would get a response.  Well, I never did get a response, but on Friday morning I went to try to open it and .....  it opened!  I was so relieved!

It's not just that I lost my blog, but all the blogs that I have saved in google reader were gone and I would miss out on a lot of them, because I wouldn't be able to remember all of the names.  I thought, well, maybe I should just quit - it takes up a lot of my time, etc.  But, I really didn't want to do that.  I have learned so much from other bloggers and gotten so much inspiration.  So, I think I will start printing out my blog (unless I decided to get a book from Blog2print).  

I finished the donation string quilt for a teenage boy!  Yea!  I'll turn it in to my guild tomorrow night at our Christmas pot luck.

Here are the last four civil war blocks.  I'm all up to date on these and only three more to go.  I'm glad I stuck with it all year.  The hard part will figuring out how I want to set the blocks and finishing it.

We are just about ready for Christmas and looking forward to spending it with DS/DIL and of course, Eli and Jonah!  I hope you are just about ready too!

ELI'S FIRST BIRTHDAY!

Over the weekend we went to Eli's first birthday party!  I helped my DIL make the giraffe cupcakes (see picture below).  He is such a little cutie and he enjoyed his party.  He's taking a few steps at a time now and seems real pleased with himself!

These are some of the giraffe cupcakes!  Quite a production to make, but they tasted very good.

DH had some quality time with Jonah.  He is getting so grown up now - 3 1/2 years old!

Last week I finished a couple more outfits for Abigail's doll.  Here she is in her play outfit - overalls and a shirt.

I put the ladybug buttons that I won on her overalls.

Here she is ready for bed in her new nightgown.

It was so much fun making the doll clothes.  And our short trip for Eli's party was wonderful!  It rained all day on Sunday, but didn't dampen our spirits.  That evening we put ornaments on their Christmas tree.  We'll be going back there for Christmas, but are home now for a couple weeks.  I need to do a little more shopping and get some packages in the mail.  Plus bake some cookies, etc. etc.