winter time

Just going through pictures and collected some random winter photos.

Dinner in front of the fire.  

Family game night. 

Our only bit of winter weather. 

Lou started playing the recorder.  Good times with hot cross buns. 

Bee did a lot of art. 

Lou and daddy playing chess. 

Lou won the Col 3:23 award at school. (back down right)

Bee won top scholar award for science.  (front row, maroon pants)

Lou having a little fun with fraction pizza at school. 

We all passed around strep, a cold, and strep again.    Happy winter.

The leg, the final chapter

 After four full months of dealing with the leg- we've graduated out of physical therapy!  
(that leg part 1, part 2, part 3)

One day he said, I think I can do everything Jon asks me to do today.  And he did.  

And then he chose to take the stairs at church. 

And then they let him graduate.  The shirt is diploma.  

Congratulations buddy.  They didn't give us enough shirts though, we all earned that shirt! 

We got to return the wheel chair.  This happy occasion called for a selfie.

Baptisms

I'm going through old posts and look, here's a precious one that never got finished.  

My sweet baby nephew... eat him up... oh my word...

This is from before Christmas... He's a big old 6 month old now.  

My mom and her hubby drove in from Kansas (to northernish Indiana) and I drove up a few hours (from southern Indiana) to be there for nephew's baptism. 

Look at these two stylish kids.  

Here's the sweet family. Happy baptism day!  This is the beautiful church where they were married.  

This is the baptism gown that Bee wore, I wore, and my sister wore.  There were several family gowns between my sister and her hubby to choose from, but nephew is the first of hopefully many babies, so there'll be others to wear the other gowns.  

daddy daughter and a sleepy mama

Bee and sweet hubby went to the daddy daughter dance again.  First, they went to Five Guys for dinner.  Bee chose it, but I think she chose for daddy.  They decided to go to dinner before getting dressed.  Good call.  

There was hair and makeup and a last minute new necklace, and an even more last minute slip constructed out of scrap fabric. Lou had to point out that her dress was sheer.  All to go with the new dress and shoes.   More about Bee's necklace here. 

Last year Lou and I went out too, but I am pretty under the weather this year and we decided that ordering pizza and a movie on iTunes might be a good choice.  I might be dozing in and out... I can't follow the Trolls movie, so I must have missed bits and pieces.  

Daddy sent her flowers at school- he's a sweet guy!

The movie is over and Lou is stalling bedtime.  Oh, these two are going to dance the night away.  Lou is going to watch as much TV as I'll let him and I'm going to nap on the couch.  

leather

Bee and I repurposed some leather and made a bunch of jewelry from some scraps I salvaged months ago.  The art room was cleaning out their closets and giving away excess.  I grabbed up a whole box of leather samples.  They were on a big ring like a collection of swatches.  

 

Bee made several tassels.  (That'a my favorite bag/purse- it's from Karma- oh my, check out all the goodies here.)

I made earrings... so many pairs of earring. 

We didn't have any actual supplies on hand to make earring so we just took apart old earrings that were going unworn.  We parted them out and made new. 

Then we ventured into necklaces. 

We have had friends ask about them, like wanting their own- Bee and I may make up more and list them in one of our easy shops.    

Bee had a special request for a necklace to wear to the daddy daughter dance.  She wanted to wear brown sandals with a black and white dress to the dance and we decided that the only way to make it work was going to be to wear another piece of brown leather.  

I think it worked!  Check out those awesome gladiator boots.  She has amazing fashion taste.