Day 129 ~ My first Pampered Chef order :)

My college roommate, Giselle, does Pampered Chef and she just recently held a party at Lauren's house as an excuse for us former roommates, Nicole was there too, to get together!  I was so excited about it all that I actually ordered a bunch of things!  My order came today :)

Day 128 ~ Toes!!

Kateri and I were waiting for Veronica to get home, and we were reading books like we always do... mine was an Amish book, hers was Seseme Street!  She wanted to sit on my lap and I ihad my legs stretched out on the couch so she sat in my lap and stretched her legs out too!  she wanted her blanket on her so I covered her all up.  She kept kicking her feet out and I would cover them back up just for her to kick them out again!  Finally she got frustrated and said "Toes!!"  I realized she wanted her feet out and crossed like mine were :)  She's such a sweetheart!

Day 127 ~ sooo....

I bought these things...

And made Ramona wear this just for team spirit just long enough for me to take a picture...

And did the Ravens win???  NO!!!!  My entire family could have cought that ball darn it!!!

At least Benny Boy's crooked nose was a slight consolation prize :)  My sister says at least we "sent them home with some black and purple to remember us by"

This only means one thing.... we have to up the purple next time!

Until we meet again, Pittsburg!!!

Day 126 ~ And we're on a roll... !!!

My great-grandmother was Polish and every year she would make her polish nutroll!  After she passed away, my mom, my grandmother and her twin (my aunt karen), my cousin Amy, my sister and I decided to keep the tradition going by getting together and making it once a year.  We made five batches, each batch making 8 rolls, and we have an amazing system going now!  We started at 8:30, worked all day... give or take a few goofing off breaks or to eat, and were finally finished at almost 4!  These are the pictures from the production line :)

The brown rolling pin there is my great-grandmother's rolling pin... now used by my mom!

My Aunt Karen and Grandmother, Kathy... Me, my sister Suzanne, My mom Carmen,

and my cousin Amy (Karen's daughter)

And that's a wrap :)

Day 125 ~ Christmas Countdown!

Every year I make a Christmas countdown chain out of construction paper.  This year, as I was looking for new construction paper in the craft store, I came accross felt and I got the brilliant idea to make a felt chain so that it was reusable thus environmental!

I sewed buttons onto the one end of each strip... Nate poked a hole in the other, and I used gold fabric paint to put in the numbersfor a 25 day countdown!

Day 124 ~ The Waiting...

After waiting for eons with glasses that only had one ear piece to them... thank you Madam Kateri... I finally got new glasses frames tonight!  I love them <3  Oh and I decided to take a picture of them with possibly the best and most romantic of the Amish fiction books I have ever read, and I've read a lot of them!

Day 123 ~ If you can't have the real thing...

There's always Frontierville :)

I haven't been to my frontier probably in weeks... and when I finally did today...voila!!  I was happy when I saw pretty yellow trees!  Apparently it's not winter yet on the frontier!  Mine are all yellow, which obviously makes me very happy, but I saw some red and orange ones on my mom's!  When I remembered how I never got a chance to get a pretty picture of our yellow trees outside out apartment (still a little :( about that by the way because they were very brilliant, stupid rain and wind!) I decided to take a picture of my frontier yellow trees to make up for it!