A RR anybody?

Via Vonna's blog, she linked to another lady who wanted to do this chart as an RR. A bunch of people thought it was a great idea..but I think the response was rather overwhelming!

Is anybody interested in doing it? I'm imagining that each person would provide their own fabric and chart. (duh, right?!) And then we'd rotate through everybody, each stitching their name and one set of hearts. It would be probably only one night of stitching for each person. But I think there are about 20 hearts on there. I'm not a big fan of the big lock of hair in the middle! I think I'd just add another heart or something.

Anyway, I don't even have the chart yet, but I wouldn't mind getting it started if anybody is interested. I just looked at the chart, and there are 20 spaces for names, but there are a few places with extra hearts and no name! :)

Leave a comment if you're interested!

Oh no!!!

Today I checked the mail, and their was a package..well color me surprised! :) I opened it and found two cross-stitch charts!

After I saw what they were, I remembered that someone had a giveaway on their blog and you could request a pattern. I did that while we were in Alaska.

Here's my problem! :) I have a pile of blogs I read, but often click links on those blogs to go to other blogs. Now, I have no idea where the blog is that gave me these patterns!

I might just have to resort to sending a thankyou the old fashioned way! But sure wish I could find her!

sleeping

And by the way, the boys and DH and I finally fell asleep at 2:00 AM! Here's hoping we can get to sleep quicker today!

A bunch of random pictures!

A few more pictures from Alaska. I didn't bother to put them in any special order! I have a few more to upload, but will probably wait until tomorrow!

We love playing cards, really we do! :) This is my DH with his head in his hands! My brother and his wife, Jill.

These two are Anna and Bailey. They belong to my little brother Sam. They came to the airport to say goodbye! Aren't they sweet?

This is Luke with Mary. She belongs to my big brother Dan. He was reading her a story.

Here's all the cousins together! All girls, except my two!

This is my mom's backyard! Isn't this a great picture of Luke! It was FREEZING that day...The high was around 18, I think!

We were delayed in Anchorage for about seven hours, due to being detoured to Fairbanks. Thankfully, cause it was only snow the boys saw the whole two weeks we were there! Isn't this gorgeous?!

This was taken at 9:30am!! look how dark it was! I actually took this picture accidentally! I was trying to get them beside the little tree..they didn't want to stand still and this is what I ended up with! I love it!

My best friend from 1stgrade-8th grade. Then she moved to Fairbanks! BRR! She came to see me at the airport at 2am-4am! What a friend!

This is Jenny! Our moms' forced us to be friends way back when she was in 10th and I was in 12th! I hadn't seen her since her wedding five years ago, we bonded instantly! Love that!


Delta has these cool maps on each seatback. You can watch where you are exactly while you're flying! Luke took this one, I was sleeping...but looks like we were somewhere over South Dakota!

And yes, I did wear a shirt other than my blue turtleneck while I was there! :)

They are STILL Awake

The bad thing about going to Alaska, is coming home to a four hour time change! They both have school tomorrow..Andrew has to get up at 6am and Luke at 8am. And it's already 11:30pm and they are both WIDE awake! The bad thing is, it's only 7:30 in Alaska. Tomorrow morning is going ot be rough, I already know it! Pray they go to sleep SOON! :)

Time to Go Home

We leave today at 4pm, which is 8pm eastern time. We'll get home on Saturday at 4pm eastern time. We have a six hour layover in Anchorage..BORING! :) We haven't decided what we'll do, we can get a rental car for four hours for $12, so we'll probably just do that and go somewhere. My friend from high school might be in Anchorage, depends if they make their afternoon flight. So hopefully (for us) we'll be able to meet up with them. Hopefully for them, they'll already be on their way out of the state.

We've had a great time. We all made tie dye shirts yesterday, and everybody is anxious to open them up today and see how we did!

A load of laundry to do, and four suitcases to pack and then we should be good to go!

Back to real life of cooking, working, homework, cleaning, etc. etc. The break sure has been nice!

Some Alaska Pictures

This is my DH Mike! He's lost 60+ pounds, isn't he a cutie?

My dad with my sister and my oldest: Andrew. My dad is MUCH improved, but has been in this exact position (minus my sister and Andrew) for the past month! The eye he is squinting is actually the good side of his face, the other side is the side with the Bells Palsy.

My mom with Luke.

This is my SIL Jill. She is married to my oldest brother Dan.

We got to tour a Coast Guard Cutter. It was about 20 degrees that day and FREEZING! This is my mom with almost all her grandkids. We left two little ones at home!

Here is a much better view of the boat. Check out ALL the snow we had!

Here are all the kids (and the Coastie that showed us around the boat!) The poor kids (and us) were so cold! Look at them all scrunched together! Poor things! But they had a great time. You can see my mom's and my shadow on the picture!

Here are all the cousins. They were eating chocolate bars from my aunt's chocolate factory in PA.

Left to Right:

Mary (my big brother's youngest), Ashley (big brother's oldest) my Andrew, my Luke, Emily (my big brother's middle) Anna (my little brother's oldest) in front of her, totally engrossed in her candy is Bailey (my little brother's youngest) Confused yet?

Ever heard of King Crab? Yum! My sister got some for us to try. Her's is out of the shell, mine is still in the shell. Look out the window: that is ALL the snow we had while we were here! And yes, that is the ocean right outside my mom's window!

This is Luke is a rare calm moment, reading to Bailey...the youngest cousin (so far!) I love how she is cuddled in his arms!

My mom got a new camera for Christmas, these are all with her camera. I have some great ones to load when I get home. We leave the day after tomorrow. Hard to believe two weeks passed so quickly! We've had a great time, but I think we're about ready to get home! We have a family dinner tomorrow, and we're hoping to tie dye some shirts for everybody. We'll see if we get around to it! :)

Happy New Year everyone!