Number 5!!!!!

Thanksgiving brought a joyous announcement to our home. We are expecting grandchild number FIVE next summer!!!!! Dianna and Travis announced the happy news Wednesday night. She reminded me that she is keeping her end up with what I asked for, a new baby every year for Christmas for the next eight years. I am such a glutton! How truly blessed I have been to have this loving, growing family.
Thanksgiving brought crafts to Gramma's this year. I found these foam trees at Pat Catan's a couple of weeks ago and thought that the kids would like them. I hope that this can continue as a tradition, it was fun. Of course we had to strip down to diapers and underwear for this event. Glitter Glue would have to be hard on clothing. How can she sit like this for so long? I would be in traction.

Tyler is probably the perfect age for this. He was so excited with craft time.

And Logan loved the Glitter Glue, making big piles of it on his tree.

Even Kendall got thrown in to the action, with Gracelyn, ever the little mother, trying to help her.

Finished this scarf on Thanksgiving morning. Since we have Thanksgiving on Wednesday night, John and I have Thursday to do whatever we want. It is always a day of much needed rest for us. I am embarrassed to tell you how much I slept. Let's just say it went something like this. Breakfast, tidy sewing room, lay out some ornaments, sleep, lunch, cut out some ornaments, sleep, supper, sew some ornaments, sleep, make a jello salad for today, sleep, sew, sleep, go to bed, sleep. Seeing a pattern here?

These are the boys crafts. They were left here to dry.

And the ornaments. Cathy at Cath's Pennie Designs was making an adorable candle mat and one of the elements was three button snowmen. If you have not checked out her patterns, you need to do that. They are wonderful designs! Anyway, as I was still drawing a blank for my ornaments for in my Christmas cards this year, this idea seemed perfect to me. Off to the button collections and digging through wool.

They are fun and every one is a little different. Right now they are hanging on my lamp at my chair. They still need steamed, but I like the way they are turning out. The first few were a little thin, so I cut a smaller oval out of blanket wool as sort of a batting for in them and now I like them better.

Fun TV work!

Today I am off to my cousins' house near Ohio. I have not been able to spend time with them in so long and I sort of invited myself to Thanksgiving. I am going to try a reprise of the cake this morning. Dear hubby has left for deer camp and I am sure this one will not burn as he is not here to witness the success.