Hello again....

So lets see since my last post.... ....


My 14 year old has graduated the 8th grade (yikes he is growing fast, I love you and am so proud of your accomplishments)


My 11 year old has discovered her green thumb and has dreams of one day feeding the world with her new found talent (love it sweetheart you have such a caring personality I believe you can do it)



My 9 year old has decided riding a horse is fun fun fun (you are such an adventurous soul I love you)





And my youngest has had her first birthday and discovered that ice cream push pops are the perfect thing on a hot summer day. (Happy Birthday my little one)



And lets see what is coming soon to our life... ...

My Mom will be here soon, we are so excited to spend some time with her this summer. Its always so nice to have her visit us and we always hate to see her get back on that plane and head back home.
My garden was vandilized by the deer, they seem to love my tomatoe plants and will move heaven and earth to get to them. We are trying something different with our last attempt this season. Hopefully there will be time for them to produce this year still. We have planted some right off of our back porch in large containers. If this works, I think next year we will just do a container garden right behind the house of the back porch as the deer seem to avoid that area. They love to nibble on my flowers in the front of the house though, lol you can see them peeking in the front window nibbling away at times. I swear they are taunting me. hee hee hee

Have a great weekend and hope everyone is enjoying their summer.
~ K ~

Oui gooey yummy Ice Cream goodness!!

So we bought the Kitchen Aid ice cream attachment for our mixer. I was a little Leary since some of the reviews said it did not work well with the non-lifter version of the mixer (the tilt head version), which is the style I have. But I figured I love my mixer, and if they did such a great job with it why would they create an inferior ice cream attachment?? So bought it. :)

Let me tell you ~ the ice cream was oh so yummy. :) We decided to go with the basic French Vanilla recipe that was in the book that came with the attachment. It is a very simple yet tasty recipe. I really can not wait to try our next batch this weekend. The kiddos love the endless possibilities, and the hubby and I love the fact that we control what it going into this sweet treat to make it a not so unhealthy dessert option. I think we are going to all have to take turns creating some flavors, or make up several batches at once. hmmmmmm decisions decisions.

We of course could not leave it so simple, so we added broken up Resses cups and some marshmallow cream. If you know me you know I wanted to add more, chocolate, Carmel and ?? who knows maybe some brownies lol.

However if you know the Hubby he is the type who likes his ice cream simple. So we went with just the two add ins.

And as you can see he was very happy with the results. (Doesn't he look like a kid in a candy store. hee hee hee)

However once in my bowl I added my chocolate and caramel syrup. :)

The littlest one cant have any yet but she sure loved her teething cookie. :) Not sure if she is wearing more than she ate.

My oldest daughter also is like me but she choose to add chocolate and strawberry to hers and she really liked it as you can see. :) This was her reaction to me asking if she liked it. lol

The other kiddos were to busy eating the ice cream to smile for a photo this time. lol Maybe the next batch they will if I hold the ice cream out of reach until they pose for a photo. hee hee

Talk to you soon,

~ K ~

Hair clippies for the little one!

I decided to make some little clippies for my youngest and for my niece as Christmas presents. I have been to every baby store in the city and none of the barrettes or clips would work in her hair. After doing a little searching on the web and thinking of my own, I came up with these.



And here is a photo of my little one showing off her pretties. :) Such a cutie, isn't she.




We have pretty much spent most of the last month around the house due to the snow we got right before Christmas and through out the end of the year. Here is a photo of my mail box poking out of the snow. :)
Well I hear the timer going off so I better go pull the dinner out of the oven.
Happy stitching,
~ K ~

Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year too

Well I certainly did not mean for my last post to be up so long without updating. :) I guess life has its way of pulling you into another direction for a bit. :)

Well lets see what has been happening lately....

My youngest is now a little over 7 months old and she has a new little cousin who was born the beginning of this month. She is such a cutie with a full head of dark hair and the cutest little baby face.

We have been getting buried in snow here for the last week and it started with a record snow fall last Thursday and has only stopped snowing here and there a few times. The hubby is outside plowing the driveway AGAIN. I have lost track of how many times he has been out plowing but it has been alot. :)

As much as we have gotten it sure is pretty and serene looking out there so cant really complain to much.

The kids are loving the snow and Christmas break too. Since we got so much snow by Thursday morning they cancelled school and then again they cancelled Friday to so they were thrilled. :)

Was telling my Mom the other day how the littlest one loves to take her larger teething rings and put them on her legs and then she grabs the little one and chews on it. It is such a cute site and I finally caught her today doing it so here is a photo. (she is just so cute. :) Not that I am prejudice or anything. hee hee )
Here is another photo of her and her big brother, she has quite the look on her face. lol not sure what caused that one. hee hee hee

Ok I should get back to my last minute wrapping and help the kiddos get those cookies decorated for Santa since he is getting closer, they just love watching his progress towards us every year.......

http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html

Have a very Merry Christmas and if I dont update again before then have a very Happy New Years as well.

~ K ~

The last few weeks.....

So it has been a while now hasn't it......... Really only about three weeks but whos counting?? LOL

My Mom came to visit and we did a little stitching while she was here, an apron was made a diaper stacker and lots of fabric was oogled and bought during the many fabric trips that we made. hee hee I will have to get some photos of them and post them soon.

The kiddos also got a chance to go up in an airplane, our local Young Eagles group had a day where they take the local kids up for a ride around the area. My 8 year old was all strapped in and at the last minute decided that it just was not for her (which is really a suprise since she is the fearless one) but the other two older ones loved it and could not quit talking about it for the rest of the day. They got to ride in a Beechcraft Baron. Thanks to the wonderful flight instructors that donated their time to get the kiddos interested in flying.

While my Mom was here we just had to take a trip to the local thrift store as well.... well here are my thrift store finds a curtain with a pretty ruffle (I have a plan for this and if all goes well will be posting the after photos soon) and two chunks of some really pretty pink, brown and green double sided quilted fabric. They are two small pieces but hey I can certainly come up with something to do with these as well. :)

Here is a photo of the little one Sleeping like a baby. :) Isn't she just the cutest. :)

Another thing while my Dear Mom was here a friend of hers talked her into making a Grandmothers Flower Garden Quilt, my 10 and 8 year old daughters fell in love with the idea and sat with Grandma and stitched a few hexagons for her. So now they have decided that they would like to start one of their own, lol. So I can see myself cutting hexagons out for a bit, but hey I kind of think I might want to start one as well....

Until next time,
~ K ~