Art with Arwen

Hasn't she got the sweetest smile?

Happy times at the House of Endless Fun!

Arwen Makes Gifts for Her Parents for Christmas

I was a guiding voice, but not a guiding hand: she did everything by herself, even the wrapping.

Now that the gifts have been given, I can post these:

 

Hanging Out with the Kids

Lately.....

Game Night with Arwen..

Improv 101 Finale...

Glad my husband can fix stuff....

The strawberry harvest is over, but I loved every last bit!  And I frozen enough to add to lots of more bowls of oatmeal.  (Frozen strawberries are too mushy to eat straight but they are fine in something: smoothies, oatmeal, yogurt, etc.)

And, no, I didn't photoshop the heart.  I just noticed it when I cut the berry in half.  :)

Lately....

My camera has had ISSUES.  Very sad.  I managed to fix it by pushing random buttons.  (Yes, truly.  Don't try this at home.)  So I haven't been taking a lot of photos lately.

Here is one of my niece over Thanksgiving, before I got the camera squared away:

"Tree croquet is not really working out....."

Here's one of my current projects:

Yesterday my Beloved and I harvested 17 pounds of potatoes from eight plants:

We still have some carrots in the ground, but once those come out, we can total up the garden produce and see if we met our goal of 150 lbs from the garden.

We also FINALLY put the rain barrels away.  The daytime temps were high enough that even though night was below freezing, the barrels didn't get enough ice in them to crack.  But we still cut it way closer than I would have liked.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Saturday!  I'm going to go make gift bags for next year's craft fair while I wait for my friend Stacy to come over.

Weekly Round Up

I did some sewing at my friend Carla F's a few weeks ago, working on Mom's run.

Her amazing daughter Mary showed me some of her artwork, which you can buy on T-shirts and other items here.

For my birthday, we enjoyed the Red/White Husker Volleyball team scrimmage.  I'd never been before, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Finally, here are some photos that my friend Sarah took before the tea party.  Such pretty girls!

Weekly Round Up

This week I....

.... stopped by Crete to see what will be Grandma Rose's new digs.

.... had a tea party with Arwen and my Goddaughter Isabel.

.... followed by the Disney Princess Game:

... ate lunch with Auntie M. at a hip little cafe and then....

... enjoyed the ethereal art of Elin Noble at the Hillestad Gallery on UNL's East Campus.

Nora and Horses + Arwen

My cousin's daughter Nora participated in a charity horse show a few weeks ago.  And I discovered that, despite my photography class, I'm not all that good at photographing motion.....

Lately.....

Someone famous and dead once said, "Only good girls keep diaries.  The bad girls don't have time."  While I hope I'm not a bad girl, I'm starting to think the same thing is true about blogs!  So here's a random catch-all that goes back to, um, April.....

We bought a new tent:

 Here's is me, in the tent, while it is raining, eating at our make-shift table.  It rained for at least 12 hours straight, mostly at night.

Visiting our dear friend Anne M. in her beautiful new apartment.

 Hat shopping with Mom....

We planted asparagus for the first time....

Hung out with Arwen.  Check out our matching purses!