Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas

and received everything you ever wanted.

Ours was good. I spent most of my time

baking and then hosted my family at our

house on Christmas Day.

When Santa dropped off Lance's dog

early he left a letter for Lance.

Here is proof Santa did visit our

house Christmas Eve. He asked

Lance to leave out cookies which we

did and apparently Santa only takes one bite.

Must be because of all the houses he has

to stop at and probably wants to avoid cookie overload.

Today has been spent taking the kids to

pick up items with the Christmas money

they received and the rest of my day once

I am finished here will be spent stitching.

Tomorrow morning as long as the snow we are

beginning to receive isn't too bad - I along

with one of my stitching pals will be making

the trek to In Stitches for the early opening and

they encourage pajama wearing...which for the

first time I will be doing.

Hope you are enjoying your holiday and

staying warm and safe!

Guild Holiday Party

This past Saturday was our guild holiday party.

In addition to seeing members during the holidays.

We have a luncheon, ornament exchange and stitching gift exchange.

We also invite vendors in and this year we had a record number.

Unfortunately, I didn't think to grab my camera,

so I don't have photos of all the vendors or the luncheon.

I am not even sure where to begin in listing all our wonderful vendors.

Here goes - web links are included if I could find a website for them.

We Had.......

Stitchers Stash, Queenstown Sampler Designs, Samplers Revisited,

Blackberry Lane Designs, Sylvan Treasures, The Sampler Girl,

LaChatelaine, The French Needle, Graceful Threads,

Guild House Samplers, Carriage House Samplings,

Kathy Barrick and her Jewelry.

I also set up a booth with my Longaberger

baskets and just have to share the

design-a-basket I had made for our guild.

The colored splints are maroon and black,

with house tacks and a personalized lid.

In addition to the 7" Round Keeping set,

it is available in the following sizes

Medium Market, TV Time and

Small Berry. If your interested let me know

or if you are interested in a basket designed

for your own guild or group let me know.

A little early present...

Well most people will think I we have

completely lost our minds and you know

what I think I would have to agree with them.

Our youngest has asked for his own dog for a year.

It even made it on his Christmas list.

We currently have three dogs.

My husband and I decided well each kid

does deserve to have their own dog.

So Santa made an early pit stop at our house.

Apparently according to the note it is too cold

for little doggies to stay in the

North Pole so they went ahead and dropped off the little one.

So Lance had a little bit of a surprise when he got home

and so did our three dogs...

Shuey our current Shih- Tzu might be liking the fact

we now have a girl Shih-Tzu....

The other two didn't quite know what to make of

this fourth one showing up.

With a little help from me we now have a Lola.

My mom may be a little surprised by

the name since it was her mother's name....

Hope my Mamaw doesn't mind.

Holiday Tea

I am fortunate to live near

Oatlands Plantation which is a beautiful

historic home located in the foothills

of Virginia's horse country.

During this time of year they

offer holiday teas for the season.

Lance and I took my mom

he wasn't too sure about it since

it was mainly girls and women

I think he enjoyed being

with his mom and Nina

but maybe it was the fact they gave

him his own hot chocolate pot

to keep at our table.

Each child that attended received

an ornament which is the silver

Christmas tree sitting next to his plate.

I had to take advantage of him

being all dressed up.

The three of us after our tea.

Lance and I before we left our house.

I have learned to cherish all the little

boy things he does because they grow up

way too fast and are no longer little boys

but grown men.

A gentleman my husband works

with gave him this coin and he

thinks it is the coolest thing ever.

Not quite sure what this really means.

This is what happens when your son spends

an evening with your very hip brother and

he feels the need to teach him something.