Thankful

I am thankful for the food we eat- for where it comes from (thank you plants and animals), the people who raise it (farmers), the people who transport it (truckers), the people who stock it at the market, and for the person who buys it (HUBBY!)

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I'm thankful for our fantastic friends and support system. They are just amazing and fun.

Thankful Today

For our lovely home, and being warm and safe. :) (With a little extra sprinkle of thankfulness to my husband who makes it possible by how hard he works!)

Thankful, 26 days to thanksgiving

I'm thankful for the little boys growing in my belly. :) Children are such a blessing and I've been doubly blessed.

Thankful

This morning a friend posted to facebook a lovely idea; each day until thanksgiving post something you are thankful for. I think this is a beautiful thing to do.

I'm incredibly thankful for my wonderful husband who is kind, caring, generous, a hard worker and the love of my life. This year, this wonderful man's birthday falls on Thanksgiving. How appropriate? :)

A rare moment of relaxation with the pups. How cute is that?

So please feel free to do this for yourself. Share the things you are thankful for in the comments, on your facebook, on your blog.... There really are so many things to be thankful for and to cherish. :) 

It's a boy! And another boy!

TWIN BOYS! What am I getting into?

I should have known... I've been chowing down on anything with hot sauce. LOL

We had a wonderful gender reveal party with our close family and friends! It was such a wonderful way to get together and celebrate with some more adult time than a shower (not that I'm knocking showers, I can't wait for mine, this was just different!) We played a few games and everyone voted on what they thought the gender of the twins were! Most thought they were a girl and a boy, some wishful thinking ladies thought 2 girls, and only three people chose 2 boys (my mother in law, sister in law and step sister in law! LOL) On the menu was a bunch of my "craving" foods: Buffalo chicken, ranch meatballs, munchos, chips and salsa/ queso dip, pudding, jello, olives, pickles, ranch dip, mac and cheese.... Oh it was yummy. :)

A garland made of sonogram pictures... just paper clip to a wide ribbon and pin up!

Find the blue paci and pink ribbon to win a prize!

My cute prize table! It's a wooden ironing board with cloth diapers as a table cloth!

Photo albums for the winners of the gender guess, little socks stuff with organic lollies were the favors and monkey bread kits went to those who found the paci and bow. :) (We are doing a monkey theme. :))

I made handmade bunting for decoration- these will go up in the boys' room

cute right?

Some of the food with the cake- all very random cravings! And yes, that's a bottle of tums- that stayed on the table!

? What's inside? Pink? Blue? a layer of each? EEK! It was gluten free to say the least. :P

oh! Gramma's cutting the cake to see what the grandbabies will be!

BLUE!!!!!! 3 layers? Oops. Nope, not triplets, but mommy ran out of batter for the fourth layer..... 

So that was the party! We had such a blast! It was a lot of work for this mama to prepare for and BOY were my feet swollen by the time I got to bed (WAY passed my bed time!) but it was worth it! It's so lovely to share this sort of thing with those closest to you!

Two skirts on a Sunday morning.

With my expanding waist comes the shrinking of my wardrobe. It's sad.

So.... I made myself two new skirts. cost? $0. They were made from fabric and an old skirt that were in my stash already.

Tada!

This one was made out of just over a yard of wool flannel for the body, and a bit of leftover black cotton interlock for the fold over waist. The front and back panels are essentially the same, but I cut an extra low dip in the front to accommodate my growing belly. I made it to measure a bit wider than my hips so there would be ease in the unstretchy wool, and added a giant pocket on the side front.

This one was an existing skirt that had a fixed waistband and a zipper. Good golly that was NOT going to fit in the near future... I cut it about 8 inches below the original waist, cutting off the zipper and making it wider than my hips. I added the same fold over "yoga" waistband out of another piece of cotton interlock. This one is a bit bigger which is fine.

I figure these will work for pregnancy and after since they are stretchy and not specifically maternity.

If anyone is interested, I'll make a tutorial later, there is another piece of wool that is calling out to be another skirt.