Mackenzie's excitement with a gift

Sorry that this is so dark, but to capture Mackenzie's excitement and unexpected comment is priceless!!

Baby James loves climbing

Baby James (7months old) just loves climbing. Jonathan and Jami surprised all us by meeting us all in Phoenix for a few days before Thanksgiving.

Mackenzie singing in the mirror

Mackenzie pretended that the headband was her princess crown and did this little thing looking in the mirror. Her mom and dad don't know where she got this from. (I guess, it's just her creativity) She wanted her grandpa to watch her do this.

Happy Thanksgiving

Mackenzie with her usual delightful pose!!
(purse on her arm and grandma's heels) :)

Happy Thanksgiving

Isn't this the most pathetically adorable baby face!!

I have so much to be thankful for. I'm so thankful that my whole family was together for a couple of days here in Phoenix! We all planned to meet here for Thanksgiving except for my son and his wife who live in New York City. Anyways, he and his wife surprised us all by meeting us at the airport as we arrived. They were only able to stay a couple of days and a good time was had by all. My brother Kenny and his wife and daughter will be here to celebrate with us, so it will be a wonderful time. We were able to bring Alaskan King Crab, salmon, and halibut down with us, thanks to my brother, Kenny. It has been enjoyed by every one and the highlight of the Thanksgiving feast will be the crab salad!!!! Thank God for families!!!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Craft projects

Here are some of the things that I have been working on! I do a lot of my knitting on the road. The bag needs some buttons added to finish it off. It was a lot of fun sewing. I did a lot of creative stitching on it. I meet with a number of creative ladies every week and one of the ladies presented the bag as a project. Most of the ladies there make quilts and WOW there are some creative women out there! It is inspiring. In the mean time I take time to teach a couple of friends how to sew and I am totally impressed with what they have done!!!! Little did I know that when I was learning to sew in high school that at this age I would be teaching others. It is very rewarding. My fabulous sewing teacher is now in heaven with the God she loved so much and I want to thank her so much for the patience she showed me and my other classmates how
to sew--it took a lot of patience teaching us "active" high school students! My most memorable project that I did was a pink paisley dress. I don't have a photo of it and wish that I did. It was beautiful. I wonder what grade I got on it. :) You know what? I'm going to pray that God will provide a photo of me in that dress. He is so amazing-I know that He will do it!!!

As a side note: I have been praying for a number of years for a photo of me in the dress that I graduated from 8th grade in and guess what???? I finally got the answer to my prayer this summer!! God is totally GOOD to me! Thank you dear God.

Berry jelly

Here are some of the berries that I made this recipe for jelly with. I made one batch with only the small mossberries-it turned out so good and tasty. This batch had the rest of the mossberries and the alpine blueberries. This turned out so good. Actually, I must say that this was the best jelly I made in a LONG time. I used the pectin that "Ball" sells.