Happy Endings and New Beginnings

On Friday afternoon, I drove to Foxboro, MA to witness the marriage of Michelle and Nick (friends of D's). I must say we had a great time and I LOVE Nick's family. Good times!!! Congrats Nick and Michelle, we wish you the best. Two pictures of the happy couple. Aren't they adorable?


Love them.

Here's a pic of us.

Today is a day to relax and this morning shortly after waking up to more snow, we (me and the children) saw this out of Juwan's window.




Yep, WILD TURKEYS. Reminder...I live in the city (no woods around). The kids were excited and so was I.

Now it's time for me to crochet...I'll post pics later.

Happy Hooking...

Monday Update...Take 2

So, as promised, here's the pictures of the slouch hat. My sister took these and the hat is for her best friend. She (my sister) loves it.

Happy Monday

Happy Monday to you all. Last night, I realized that I never posted my New Year's resolutions. After careful consideration, here's what I came up with (no particular order).

* Crochet for at least one hour a day (how else will I get to perfection???)
* Learn a new craft (knitting seems to be a big one at my office, BUT I want to sew. I can't afford to buy new clothes and I am losing weight rapidly.)
* Learn how to live on a budget (I'll never buy a house if I don't)
* Have more patience with the children (AKA don't yell)
* Be healthy (set an example for the children by treating my body better)

So, there you have it. My resoultions for 2009. I've already experienced set backs with most of them...LOL. It's a new week, I'll give it another try.

Crochet Update...
Last night I tried the Puffy Slouch Hat and it took two tries but it worked. I stupidly forgot the camera at home so I will post the picture later.

Works in Mind:
Ferris Wheel Slouchy Hat
Swirls Hat

Works in Progress:
Two sweaters using two patterns from Lion Brand (I'll post links later) for myself. Yes, I know something for me. Can you believe it?
A few hats (still completing orders)

By the way, I am now on Ravelry. I received the invitation in November but never actually logged in. I'm tjcrochets. Hope to see you there.

Keep Hooking

Birthday Party Success

Well it's Sunday afternoon and I am posting which means I survived another birthday party. Ya me. This year's party was a huge success because everyone pitched in. So, I would like to publicly thank her grandmother (decorations - extremely cute), my sisters (the ones who call themselves twins--LOL), and her father who helped with everything from cleaning before, making ALL of the sandwiches, decorating cupcakes and the giant cupcake (he did all of the airbrush work), cleaning up after the party, and just being great the entire day.

The Birthday Girl in her t-shirt that mommy and daddy made for her. Thank you Hook for pressing it.











The giant cupcake, turned out wonderful. Thank godness I do research, it totally helped.

The twins with the birthday girl.

Happy Friday

I am so happy today is Friday (even though I know I have a very busy weekend). For starters, let me first wish you all a Happy New Year. The last time I posted was in 2008. I owe you all a few pictures and promise to put some up now and more later.

This weekend we will celebrate Z's 3rd birthday and of course mommy is make the cake (pray that it comes out great). After her 1st birthday, I promised her father that we would not have another "BIG" party until she turned 5. So with that in mind, I had to plan something fun and exciting, and inexspensive. Good thing I am creative.

The Theme: Crayola Coloring

I purchased most of the stuff (decorations) from one of our local dollar stores (I was actually shocked to see that they had matching pieces). Her father decided that we would serve finger sandwiches and chips (keeping in mind that the party is for the little ones NOT the adults). For the cake, I remembered seeing a giant cupcake pan in Michael's while I was working and thought that would be cute. So, I went a purchased one. The giant cupcake will have little friends to go along with it. Hoodies cups and it's a party. Of course I had to do something for the lootbags so I looked around for colorful stuff that was around $1. (This is where I blow the budget.) Sorry D. The most expensive item in the bag was the 8 pack of jumbo washable crayons ($2.83/pack). I only purchased 6, everyone else will get the normal 8 pack.

Wish me luck.

Almost forgot my crochet project. My sister is totally in love with these Slouch Hats that everyone is wearing so I made her one and now she wants more in different colors. I spent some time searching the net for patterns and only came up with 3 or 4. So I thought maybe I could get her to try a beret (same thing right? WRONG.) She hated it. I think it's cute but maybe for my aunt (older lady). Here it is.

Keep Hooking.

Vacation

First let me wish everyone a very belated Merry Christmas. Christmas was great. The children are happy so that makes me happy. D joined us for Christmas this year so Zaria was really excited (deep down, so was I).

Since I don't take any "real" time off during the summer (I work for the school department but I am management which means I work year round), I decided to take Christmas week off. So my vacation officially started yesterday. So I am planning to post everyday this week. Kinda like a chronicle of my vacation...

DAY ONE
I dropped Zaria off at daycare because I need to get my house back together from the holiday mess. SIGH!!! I returned home only to clean the kitchen and sort laundry and then I did something that I knew I shouldn't have done...I checked my blog. Once I saw Christina's chocolate chip cookies, I just had to make some. So, I did. Once I made the cookies, I decided that I should try to complete the gifts for Zaria's daycare family (mainly her provider and her oldest daughter AKA Grandma Brenda and Auntie Sandra). Notice no cleaning getting done. There's always tomorrow (hey wait...that's today...LOL). I ended the day by visiting my grandmother and two of her friends (Auntie Joni and Auntie Bev) who brought gifts for the little monsters. Thank you Aunties. We love you.

DAY TWO - Today
I dropped both of the children off today. Zaria to daycare and Juwan to his afterschool program that is open from 9 - 4 today and tomorrow. I have been very productive this morning. I have already washed 4 loads of clothes (this included some blankets) and folded them. Small steps to victory. I also organized the computer center which is why I am currently blogging...So, back to cleaning.

Happy Hooking.

An Evening Off

Can you believe I took some time off for myself? Well, it was more like tricked. My best friend called my house and told J to tell me to be ready at 8:30 with jeans and sneakers on. I thought about it and wondered if someone had pissed her off and we were going to beat them up. LOL. Yeah right? Us? We would never do such things. We are ladies!!!

So, I did as instructed and I would like to publicly say THANK YOU to Cece. She tricked me into going bowling with her and a few of her friends (soon to be in-laws). My little sister tagged along and we had a blast. I promised them that I would go out more often. We already have plans to go bowling next Monday and we're bringing Juwan and a few friends.

Thanks again Cece. Love you much...