The Stockings Were Hung

I knew I was going to be making stockings this year, but what they would look like was a big dilemma! Should they have names? Be multi-color? One in every color? Be the same shape with different designs? Many of you weighed in on the debate and here's what came to be:




On Christmas Morning:


Santa brought us two of these! He used to bring them to my mom and she made sure to let him know it'd be special if we got them as kids (and adults) too!


Eventually mine got finished!

And they are sooooo happy together! This way they can have names:

Or not:

I kept some things the same but like the interest the variations add. I now know any kids names will have 7 letters or fewer, and I have all the time in the world to fret over whether their stockings will be blue snowflakish and yellow stars or red white and green or red for boys and green for girls.........

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I'm No Mrs. Weasley

I got the bug for these mini Mrs. Weasley sweaters.

Which turned into:

Which turned into:

The funnest Christmas ornament/gift tag/Harry Potter nic nac. They're going to live at John and Neola's for a while I think. They look happier on a tree all together!

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A Jolly Sort of Visit

Val was in Fresno for a brief time before Christmas and it made for some quick quality visits for traditions sake! We had a fun breakfast at Batter Up with Destinie and Deb before one of my sub jobs. We had lots of laughs, flash backs, and squees!


And we were quite the Jolly Quilters (yes we sipped the beverage by that name as well) on Friday! Man oh man we've sure missed quilting night! We almost busted out a whole quilt top!






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Knit Between

I did a bit of knitting in the time I've been gone. My master teachers mother was under going chemo and radiation. I finished this hat for her over Thanksgiving break.

It's a loose slouchy hat so I used a big bowl to block it.

  I made two more of these HP Cowls. (pattern by me and on ravelry.)

   

And Pygmy Puffs! A made up creature in Harry Potter.

   

First introduced here: 

   

Here is Dani enjoying hers. I told her its soft so she can throw it at students. I don't think she will.  

Here is Karen, a true kindred spirit enjoying her cowl and her Pygmy puff.

And guess what!? She's a Ginny Weasley fan!

Thanksgiving Break, Part II

Fantastic news, my blogpress app is back up and running which means soooo are my posts! Yay! Picking the Thankful break recap back up... I made Thanksgiving dinner for me, Luke, Aunt Audrie, Grandpa, Shan, and Weston. Cranberry sauce the night before.

Everything else the day of.

Luke mashed the potatoes and carved the turkey. Day 2 Disneyland sort of a late start as I kind of forgot the tickets the first time we left. Oops. I blame the turkey coma. Went straight to CA adventure and got World of Color tickets. Then hit up CA Screamin'.


Back to Disneyland where we signed up for our !Holliday Tour! And hit up toon town for pictures with Mickey.  Luke saw Donald.


As close as he's gonna get to Oregon for a bit. Then we went to meet up for our tour!!


We got to wear these stylin headphones that played Disney Christmas music between our guide talking.


We learned some main street trivia, an got to try the. Best. Pumpkin. Pie. Fudge. We were skeptical but man this stuff disappeared fast.


Soooo good! Then off to the Mansion where we got to go straight in. Because we were on a tour.


Then we took the train to Toon Town and sang Jingle Bells with our headsets. Yay. Then we went to Small World. Where we got to skip the line again. Woooot!



We had gone in when the sun was in the sky and when we came out it was dark and the whole small world castle was lit up. So magical!


Our tour then made its way to Toon Town where we got hot chocolate in a special mug and a Mickey Mouse Gingerbread.


Luke ate his very strategically.


Lastly, we were escorted to a special section of front row seats for the parade. Our tour guide read us a Walt Disney/Disneyland story. Then, we enjoyed our hot chocolate, gingerbread, and front row parade seats. My favorite part of the parade was the short legged snowmen. They waddled. They were funny.


Then we rushed right over to CA Adventure where we caught a showing of Disney's Wonderful World of Color. It was fabulous!


The next day Luke put up Aunt Audries Christmas lights. He's very particular about how they're folded.


I went with Aunt Audrie to pick out a Christmas tree and since Luke was the tallest he got angel duty.


Next Day: Disneyland Morning Magic, Early entrance.



The weather got to 80 degrees that day. It was gorgeous! The Morning Magic route was the way to go. There was only a 10 minute wait for Space Mountain and that because it took that long to get through the line.


I requested very strongly that we go on the Dumbo ride. It's one of my earliest faint Disneyland memories. You can tell Luke was thrilled.

Now mocking me.

Giving in to boredom.

Luke says this was his first time on the Peter Pan ride.

Remember that picture I posted of the family reading in line. Here's their digital counterpart.

One of our last adventures was a quick trip to the beach.

Where I took these so I could post them on my blog at the appropriate time. Better late than never.



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