More Gingerbread Houses!

The lovely Miss V turns sweet sweet 16 tomorrow, so for her party this year we hosted some of her friends for a gingerbread house-party





Building and talking and laughing.

think there is enough candy here?





After the girls were done, I got to decorate a couple of houses also............

This one has coffee beans on the sides, so it will travel to my favorite coffee shop.




And my gingerbread cottage. I love the roof!!!

Total fun!

Only 3 more to go. Another kid who missed out on gingerbread-ing is stopping by next Saturday and she and I will decorate some MORE!!!!

Some SWEEET building going on!

Miss V and her cousin Brianna working on a house together

Rachel who is one teeny month younger than V working on her house........

Kayla, who is a teeny 11 months younger than Miss V working on her house.

Cayleigh the cheesey working on getting her picture taken, instead of working on her house.

Some nice roofing going on here............

Becky and Ben practicing for when they go on their Habitat for Humanity trip.

Ben getting serious about his house.

Smallest builder of all, Emily. We decided she got the prize for most sugar involved. Once she was done putting every kind of candy on, she sprinkled sugar on top too.

Lissa and Rachel, very serious builders

Once again, fun was had by everyone!

If I can find Jim's pictures there will be a end shot of all the finished houses, since once again my camera died part way through all the fun stuff.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

My favorite holiday of the year.

Two little chickies are home, and two more are on the way in the next few days. I hope everyone has a wonderful warm happy holiday.

After the feast I have to gear up and get all my gingerbread houses built so the niece's and daughters and any nephews etc can play with the decorations and create masterpieces.

There will be pictures after Saturday when the massive gingerbread-ing is done~

Marching Band Last Blast

Another great weekend back at college!

Here is the gang that got to go, just missing one kid! Hopefully we'll all get together at Thanksgiving and do some more family pictures.

And the lovely Becky

The senior band members were recognized at the Last Blast concert.

Becky and her boyfriend Ben.

The seniors presenting the director with a neat collage of band pictures and such.

What a fun weekend!!!! A half time show, a band concert AND a choir concert! Does she know how to entertain us or what?

too bad I didn't get any pictures at the brunch she hosted for all of us!

Left overs and a cat

Here's a little Halloween runner I made from some leftovers from Miss V's first Halloween quilt.

Now that she is doing a second one, I have another pile of cute little scraps to play with.

And the cat.

Mr. Big Bones. He seems to need to get up at 3:00 am to go downstairs to have a snack to keep up his strength.

This wouldn't be much of a deal, except now that cold weather is here and the heat is on, we keep the stair door closed. No matter, he just tromps downstairs and bangs on it, which causes loud rattling to echo all over the house. This is what happens when you have a 17 lb cat and old doors.

Random Photo of the Day

Sputnik Cow!!!!

Warning!!! This post is totally UN P-C!!!

I received this in my email earlier in the week, and since I am pretty much NOT PC, (more of a laptop kinda gal) I thought it was funny.
If you are the type to be easily offended, do not read this. There, you have been warned!



A Powerful Message from Stevie Wonder on Michael Jacksons Death
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Deep stuff huh?
It brought a little tear to my eye when he said
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