MORE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS AND AN INTERESTING STORY

Well it was another busy week-end for us, but I soo enjoyed it all.  Saturday we headed over to my oldest son's house to celebrate "little" Jeffy's tenth birthday.  Honestly, I just can't believe he is 10. Where ever does the time go?  He brings such joy to my heart I could hardly express it enough.  Now I realize of course that grandma's are usually just a tid bit prejudice, but he is honestly got such a tender heart and sweet spirit about him it would be hard to miss.  A little on the shy side I guess you could say, but full of life and promise and soo cute besides.  He had chosen to go laser gun fighting and so he and his little brother and cousins enjoyed that with grandpa and their daddies, while us gals stayed back at the house and got dinner together.  Actually, I didn't do much at all besides hold a peacefully sleeping Vinny.  Hey, somebodies got to do it right? lol  The dinner was soo tasty and after that the kids ran around in their HUGE park like yards and enjoyed each other.  The guys played some basketball too. Happy birthday was sung, candles were blown out, and cupcakes were enjoyed to finish off the day. HAPPY BIRTHDAY sweet Jeffrey Joseph! Grandma loves you up to the sky and back and forever and always!

LOOKING AT THESE PICTURES MAKES ME PROMISE MYSELF THAT I AM BRINGING MY CAMERA FROM NOW ON....GOODNESS, SOO BLURRY AND DARK

SHY AND KIND OF EMBARRASSED, LOL

LOVE THIS

HAVING FUN

ENJOYING THEIR CUPCAKES

JEFFY'S MOM AND DAD

SWEET VINNY

 Stole these next two from his mom's this morning.  Not sure where they took him from dinner yesterday, but looks fun

OBVIOUSLY TOLD TO "POSE" TOGETHER, LOL   I LOVE IT!

LOOKS LIKE A GOOD SELECTION JEFFY!

And then today is my youngest son's 34th birthday!  We took his family out to lunch after church yesterday to celebrate him.  He chose one of his favorite spots...Phil's BBQ, and we all enjoyed a very tasty lunch.  In fact, we were soo full never did eat again on the day, lol.

I just have to tell you this story as well.  I had told my daughter that I would like to make her friend, (and now family for her) a gift of some kind for her upcoming baby girl.  She has two little boys very similar in age to Melody's two, and now is expecting her third baby, only this time a little girl.  We are so happy for her.  Anyway, after discussing it with Melody we decided to make it a scripture picture.  Well, Melody really wanted to use the scripture from Proverbs 31:25 which says Strength and honor are her clothing, she will rejoice in time to come.  I loved it too so I sat out trying to find a design that has this verse in it.  Well after searching for QUITE SOME TIME I wasn't really finding much at all.  One was all I found, and honestly, I really didn't like it.  Soo I got this brilliant idea of going to one of my favorite designer's web pages and e-mail her and ask her if she would/could consider designing something we could use.  I told her it would be going in a baby girls room etc.  Honestly I had no idea if this was something she even did, and what she might charge me, (could have eliminated it right there, lol) and how long it might take her to get back to me etc. 15 minutes later she answered me and told me she had been praying about designing something with this VERY scripture, and that she was taking this as confirmation she was suppose to!  How exciting was that?  She got busy on it that VERY day.  And last night when I got home and checked my email she had sent me the new design, and (now here is the best part!) for FREE! She is putting it in her store in a few days time, and asked permission to display my work from other designs she has designed in her gallery.  I had sent her the pictures of what I had done figuring everyone likes to see their work being used.  She did the design for the pillows I just did, and also for the "Train up a child in the way he should go" one with the elephants.  Soo cute.  She is really good, and her designs are GREAT to work with.    I LOVE LOVE LOVE what she has done with the design, and of course as soon as I get it together I will show it to you too.  Trying to decided what colors in the threads to use now, fabrics, etc.  Soo much fun doing these for some reason.  Quite a bit came up as a result of putting one of my pillows on Facebook as to rather or not I should attempt selling ANY of my work.  Bottom line?  I have decided NOT to....AGAIN.  I will admit I came close this time, but I actually did quite a bit of discussing with the design gal via email, and she had some great thoughts on it.  I am afraid it would take most of the joy out of it for me.  There is NO WAY I could bear to charge anyone what I would really need to in order to make it worth my while.  With the exception of the bibs maybe, or the self binding blankets, or even the crib sheets, the rest of the things take quite a bit of time and are NOT inexpensive to make either.  I wish I was in the position to just GIVE everyone who REALLY wanted something whatever it is they are wanting....but then again, that is not very realistic I know.  Soo anyway, that's the end of that story.

I don't have a lot of my agenda this week, so I will probably just work on some projects I haven't had time to get to for a while now.  Hope you ALL have a good week!  Blessings to you!  Debbie

JUST HAD TO SHOW YOU THIS PICTURE OF SWEET LUKE'S LONG, LONG LASHES...MISS HIM