Saturday, January 28, 2012

More projects

As soon as I found out that we were going to have a baby, I bought yarn & started a baby afghan; yellow, because that's what we seem to do when we are trying to go gender neutral.  Anyway, here's the result: 



So, when I asked Amanda to start going through my patterns to make something for the baby, she couldn't choose anything.  She was very sickly and because it was so early, we didn't know the baby's sex.  She kept mentioning the alien toy so this is the first thing she picked:


Projects for Baby

Here's a foreshadowing of our smiley baby.  He was smiling in his sleep on his first day. Everyone comments on what a happy boy he is.  Maybe he's smiling here at the blankie I made for him.  Probably not, but I'll pretend it is because of the blankie.....

Grandmothers taking their survey

Five tiny fingers, five tiny toes
Little itty bitty clothes.
A cute baby boy
To cuddle and squeeze,
To pamper and play with
And bounce on your knees...



New Daddy


Grant & Cullen; look at that happy Daddy.

Sweet Boy

Here are Amanda & Cullen getting to know each other.  They both look quite satisfied.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Aunt Sarah

Here's my sweet Sarah, holding her new nephew.  The rest of us look like we only got 3 hours' sleep but I guess you don't when you're 26 years old.  Or maybe it's joy shining through. 

Precious Picture

This is the sweetest thing I've ever seen.  Thank You, God.