November!

I love November.  I love fall, yes, even here in Juneau.  :-)  I love having lots of family birthdays in one month..... My birthday is on the 1st--- I am now the big 50!, my boy Tim is on the 6th--25, my Mom is on the 7th, my boy Erik's was yesterday the 21st--24, my Dad is on the 24th.   So many times to remember those I love..  and Thanksgiving.  Erik's favorite holiday.  Although I won't have my David for the first time ever! At least he will be home for Christmas.  I had the family over last night for Erik's birthday, we had spaghetti and meatballs, salad, bread and Dale's cheesecake with raspberry and blueberry toppings.  I love having all of us together.  Tim and Katie come home!

I am truly blessed with a wonderful family, and it is getting bigger.  :-)  Two, granddaughters.  2!!!  Miriah is also having a little girl; she and Erik had an ultrasound last week, and they brought over the pics and even a cd the tech had made.  It was so exciting to actually see her moving around in there.  My baby is having a baby.  It is real.  :-)  Until she pops out she will be known here as Jelly Bean.

We're having yet another burn ban.. I hate and love them.  My bedroom and the basement are warmed with our boiler, but the rest of the house is SO cold.  And we have a really good stove that burns well.  Oh well, not everyone has a good stove, and I don't want a ticket. I will submit.

On the knitting front, I finished Tim and Christine's blanket, I LOVE it.  It was all my favorite colors.  I have started Ashleigh's, and it is going well.  Yarn is ordered for Kelly's, and I have some picked out for Latecia's and Hannah's.  Not yet for Miriah though.
That's enough for now, I need to go to work today.  I don't want to, it's my day off.  But since we are doing our Thanksgiving on Wednesday, I have to.
Later!

Kelly with Owen at Christine's shower

My birthday  boy

Rikki and Max

Too much love!

Signing the papers for their first house-- next door to Larry and Kelly!!!

Owen's new blanket

hope

Today is my Mom's birthday.  She would have been 70 years old.  I have been missing her so  much lately; I think it's because I am going to be a Nan, and I know she would have been so excited to see her grandbaby having their own baby.  Someone told me recently that I really look like my Mom, it made me so happy as when I was growing up all I wanted to be was her.  I am so fortunate to have had a Godly Mom and Dad, to have grown up always knowing that God loved me.. to know that even though there is death here on earth, I will see my family again.  That they are happy and worshiping our great God.

Worship today at Church was amazing, I felt so close to God and grateful for all He has done for me.  I was remembering when Dale died, seeing the sunrise at my friends house thinking this is Dale's first sunrise with Jesus.  Being so sad and happy at the same time.
Thank you Jesus for loving me, for saving me, for always being there for me.  Thank you for giving me hope.

yarn!

Today was Three Irish Girls day at my house.  Every month I get an order in... this months yarn is so beautiful.  I haven't been posting many pictures of my yarn lately, but I have to today.

Feast your eyes on the gorgeous work of Sharon:

Here you have flourish, cornucopia, bountiful, sweet pea and alchemy. 

Ahhhh.  Bliss. 

50

So I am now officially middle aged.  I don't feel old, I still think I'm young.  Saying hey, I'm 50 sounds really weird.   Oh well, I'm as young as I want to be.

Today has been a very nice day.. I had lunch at the Sandpiper with Lisa, Sherrie, Latecia and Miriah.  It was so much fun to sit around and chat with my lovely friends.  Look at the fun things they got me:

I had my first massage today, I don't think it will be my last.  My chiropractor cracks me up every time I see her; today she just shook her head at me and said, "Janet, you are so unusual."  What can I say, I like to be a challenge.  :-)
I have been told I have tendonitis, and can't knit today.  I don't know if I am going to obey or not.  I'm halfway done with Christine's blanket, and I'm having such a fun time knitting this one.  Maybe I can just knit for an hour.

The weather says we could get 4-8 inches of snow tonight... we'll see.  I'm always excited for the first snowfall.
Last night we had another family dinner-- roast this time.  It was yummy, and was again tonight.  :-)  Kelly, Miriah and Latecia let me take a picture of them last night, they are so sweet and cute.

 I bought some really cute baby clothes from Mommy and Me Saturday, including 2 sweet little dresses.  It begins.  :-)))