This has the possibility of being my longest blog ever.

Try as I may, I can't usually think of anything to blog about and I always forget to take pictures. Thank goodness Bennett is mastering the art of taking pictures of himself. He reminds me so much of James, and this is just another "James" attribute. I gave him a bath tonight and he asked me, "Nana, do you have a p-penis (he always says p before the word penis)?" No, Bennett, I do not! Miles is in the terrible horrible phase of being an 18 month old. He is cute as a button but really hard to watch and naptime is great (so is bedtime).

I got called the the basement the other night to find Maya and Porter working so hard on the party in the doll house. I don't know if you can see the figurines in every room and the cars were all lined up outside the house. That must have been how the figurines got to the party!

I posted a picture the other day of the fabric for the 'new' baby's quilt. I got busy the other day and made this simple quilt. I will quilt it when my friend finishes her quilt that is on my frame now. I think it turned out cute.

AND...... this is for James. He sold his Camry (or Accord, I can't remember) and Brad went to another car auction and bought him a Jeep. Here are the pictures for James to see what his money bought.

It doesn't have car mats so my old Camry mat in in the floor. Leather interior.

From the back. The lift gate doesn't stay up when you open it.

Passenger side door. It has a little rust under the window on the door.

From the front. It has a tow package.

From the side.

Oh CRAP!!! I forgot to take a photo of the stereo slot. I will run out and do that right now, James. I will update this post in a few minutes.

Fabric Stash!!!!

I have been wanting to find a way to organize my fabric stash for sometime now. I have bits and pieces of fabric in drawers, on shelves, here, there, everywhere. So, I mentioned to Larry that I wanted to buy bolts to put fabric on. I priced some on the internet but they were quite expensive. I then ordered some comic book cardboard (someone on the internet recommended it) but that was terrible. Then my hubby brought some stuff home from work and it was perfect. Shelves that use to look like this one above, now look like

THIS!!!!

That is such an improvement. The thing I love most is that I can pull a bolt out and cut off what I need without having to fight the whole length of the fabric. Then, I just pin it back onto the bolt and shelve it. I still have some to do but I am loving it so far.

Amanda is having a baby boy in April and I found this cute fabric and have started a quilt. I love the colors (this picture color isn't totally accurate). It should end up cute and hopefully I can finish it before the baby is born.

Fancy Lunch

Have I ever said on here how much I love this guy? He is my rock. I get mad when he does this when we have people over but I still love him. He makes me happy.

On Saturday, Grampy decided we needed to go out for a Fancy Lunch to Cici's Pizza. We all got dressed up (some more than others) and went out. We got some funny looks, mostly because of Grampy. I am not sure if that is fancy or just geeky.

The fancy girls. They look somewhat normal, right?

Maya is so beautiful. She did get a little embarrassed at Cici's but got over it quick.

Now, this got all the looks. I can't believe he would humiliate the Buckeye Nation by wearing that coat and his buckeye necklace. Oh well, we had fun and it wasted a few hours.

Catching Up

I really don't feel the need to catch up with all the Christmas stuff as the girls do such a great job. I just had some pictures on my camera and thought I would post a few. These are Christmas morning with the whole family here. I love these guys. Matching PJ's are a Christmas Eve tradition. This year everyone got shirts with their initials on it and the number in which they joined the family. Larry #1, Kathy #2, Amanda #3, Sarah #4, etc. It was a hit. We are up to #18 but Ella was too small to get a shirt but she had PJ's that matched the kids. Pogo Sticks and Stilts. How much fun can that be??

Christmas Eve Larry couldn't contain his excitement and HAD to give the girls the presents he bought them (with my suggestion). They were somewhat surprised, to say the least. This is the guessing picture.

The, "OH MY GOODNESS!! I GOT UGGS" picture.

The modeling picture. It was a hit. Dad always has to outdo me!~

Hannah with her stocking.

Casey.

Steven having a hard time containing his excitement.

James, handsome as ever. I sure miss that guy.

Brad and Jessica. Jessica got her hair colored back to blonde for Christmas. She was happy about that and has sworn to never go brown again. She is beautiful.

I miss the family times. In my 'ideal' world, everyone would live in the same town and we would have Sunday dinner together and lots of fun outings.

Up-date

I took a cookie decorating class on Saturday and really enjoyed it. I don't know if you can see the detail but I am really proud of little masterpieces.

Snow is here...... where are the GRANDKIDS???

The tree is up. Hannah helped and that was so great. Larry helped also.

New baby Harward

Ruby? Kathryn? Olivia? Who knows, but SHE IS HERE!!!

With her first 'lovey' AND less than two hours old, she sucked her thumb!
PS Her name is ELLA KATHRYN HARWARD

2 weeks

I have been home for 2 whole weeks from Utah and now I am off to Lafayette to see my newest Granddaughter that will be born on Friday. I just can't seem to stay home for very long (not true, I would love to stay home but I get to missing my kids so much that I have to go see them).

In the past two weeks, we had a General Authority from our church stay at our house so I had to clean like mad for a few days. I did another Dinner Theater at church. We only had about 300 people this year. This week, I am catching up and trying to get a Thanksgiving dinner grocery list done for next week. We seem to be getting to bed early with the time change. Why does changing the time, make you sleepy earlier?