Broad street mittens in progress using hand spun superwash merino.
I do believe that this is becoming a pattern on cold days we snuggle down for movies, knitting, and imagination play. 
Mittens in progress abandoned on the couch while we play babies.
Lilly won't answer when we call she must think that she is completely hidden but I think she has forgotten one important part.
This is the second mitten that is in progress. See previous post for more detailed information about the pattern and yarn.
These are the most current pictures of my first mitten completed.
I started and almost finished my first Broad Street Mitten. The pattern can be found at knitty.
A day at Great Grandma's house is always an adventure. We never know what Granny Apple will have planned for us to do. Annabelle was tuckered out after our day of fun that she climbed onto grandmas couch and promptly went to sleep. I had to wake her to head back home.
While at Granny Apples we made granny's special fried apples. The recipe goes something like this. Slice several apples into thin pieces. You can also peel the apples if you prefer.
This is my Granny Apple. Granny loves to sew and read. Today granny is working on a small quilted chair arm cover.
Annabelle loves to play in granny's buttons as much as I did as a child.
The Christmas wish lists have been started. Santa I hope that you are listening.
These are my favorite things today. As the temperatures outside drop I love to start up a warm and glowing fire.
And on long cold winter days there is nothing like napping with your best friend.
These are my knitted babes. Some have names and some do not, some are gifts and some are not. The picture above me is a picture of Gorgeous Beautiful as named by the young lady who received her as a gift.
These two young ladies are going to say in the family. The dark haired girl is my first attempt and the other my second. The patterns in Knitted Babes by Claire Garland are just wonderful. If you have children in your life that like dolls go out and buy this book right now it is worth twice the list price.
The babies that are staying at our house are getting quite a wardrobe thanks to vacation knitting and sewing.
We are now going to spend the rest of our vacation relaxing toodles.
The kids had a great time playing in the recently raked leaves. Later inside we realized that Annabelle had an allergic reaction to something in the leaves. Luckily it cleared up quickly.
This photo was an attempt at a christmas card photo but not good enough so we will try again later. 
Sammy loves to play outside with the kids, he is never far from the action.
Stacking and splitting fire wood.
Burning bushes in full color.
Wind chimes that sing in the wind.
After 50 years my mother's sister who was adopted saught out her birth family. We had a lovely reunion at a local restaurant filled with tears of joy.
This is a picture that I took of my mother. I think that this is the most beautiful picture of her that I have!
I recently read a post about taking pictures with your children especially if you are the primary picture taker in your family. I find that I have hundreds of pictures of my husband with my children but I have very few pictures of me with the children. With inspiration from another blog post I decided to ask my husband to take a few pictures. These are not photo studio quality but they are going to remain full of memories because of the fun that we had trying to get every one to smile at the same time.
We definitely need to take more pictures with me in front of the camera not behind it!
A post full of pictures that remind me of the joys of summer!
Black eyed susans
yellow squash and pumpkins
My best friend Tamy, my children and I took a day trip to the Kansas City Zoo. The day started out with a cloudy sky but we were luck and only got a few sprinkles.
The highlight of our day was feeding the lorikeets.
This lovely photo was taken at the elephant watch point.
Tamy had not been to the zoo since she was a little girl about Annabelle's age. Tamy enjoyed watching all of the animals and playing with the kids. All in all it was a great day.
These are the lovely animals that were on display at the Sedalia Missouri MONGWA which I believe stands for Missouri natural growers wool association. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
There is nothing like fiber bearing animals to make me smile.
