So, So Thankful

So very much to be thankful for this year.

The new exciting things, the old, comfortable things.

A few very, very hard things…

and some incredibly wonderful, happy things.

All, I believe, designed by our loving Heavenly Father to help us stretch and grow and love harder and stronger and ultimately…

to bring us closer to Him.

I am indeed grateful for my sweet home and cute chickens and my dear, dear family….

some of whom may or may not be playing chess…

at the dinner table.

And I love them to bits.

Happy Thanksgiving my friends.

Those Silly Spooks

 

 

Our sweet little Halloween party has evolved into an event of huge proportions. So much so that we have to meet at a place that is bigger than any of our houses are.  Pretty fun to see that all those little spooks from years ago, are just great big even crazier spooks nowadays–with a whole new generation of littles coming right along behind.

Ooooh, I love these people.

General Conference 2016

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October General Conference–easily one of my favorite events of the year.

Listening to our leaders speak…

while surrounded by my sweet family.

And fabulous food never hurts either.  I was too busy eating it to take pictures.

Har de har.

Owlbert

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Made this little sweetie for my baby grandson’s 1st birthday.

I had other plans, but they fell through, so this little pattern came to the rescue.

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It actually whipped up surprisingly fast– about 3-1/2 hours from topknots…

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to tail feathers.

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My kind of project indeed.

Oh, and I printed off this pattern a while back and can’t find the origin–to give proper credit. I’ll keep looking. Sorry.