sherriknits

I want to begin this post with an apology. My last post was titled “the c word” and then the first thing I talked about was 2 friends diagnosed with cancer. What I had meant by the c word showed up later in the post when I talked about crocheting. I didn’t even connect it until this past Saturday when I was spending time with friends. I want to apologize for being so tactless. It’s been difficult dealing with the emotions of the diagnosis and I would never want to make it sound light. I am sorry.

Well….the boy is 16. Thankfully he forgot about wanting his driver’s license, like he used to tell me when he was about 11. I’m thinking it must have been something he was hearing on tv.

Do you remember last October when I showed you a picture of him on the morning of his 7th birthday?

Well, that was more than one picture. But here he is at 16!

I almost always manage to catch him coming down the stairs.

I love the look on his face.

Hmmm, this one is hard to get in to. lol

The whole family came for breakfast. Little Missy Mayah hadn’t eaten yet.

This is how his day went….fun with the family for breakfast. Lunch with Dad. (tradition is that every birthday person gets lunch with dad, except me, I usually get dinner. Then he got to go to the movies with Rebecca to see Ice Age.

We had to take a little detour from celebrating to go gather to pray for our young friend with cancer. He didn’t enjoy that part so much.

Then we headed off to Rebecca’s to have Baskin Robbin’s ice cream cake!

Before we had cake, this is what the boys looked like. Tyler is playing too, but his wii mote (how do you spell that anyway?) is laying on the ground.

Then here comes the cake with those crazy candles again.

Note that the ice cream is melting!

I love the look on his face again.

Note how Mr. Cool has his hands in his pocket while he blows.

I hope he never loses the thrill of these things. This is after he managed to get all the candles out….several tries and hopefully not too much extra spit on the cake. lol

This is how the little miss hugs. She lays her forehead on you. She makes the sweetest little coo when she does it and her eyes (I’m always eyeball to eyeball with her) say it all…..

and talking about saying it all, how cute is this?

I’m back to knitting the chickens. I’m a little bugged. The place I got the yarn from said that the 3 chickens could be made using 2 skeins of cream, 1 each of aqua, yellow, and orange. I’m glad I followed my gut instinct when I had started the second chicken, knowing I still need the aqua for the stripes on the little chicken because this is all the farther I got.

I still have a little over 2 inches to go on the body and then I need to do the head, not to mention the stripes and finish the dots on Lottie. It really kinda bugs me to pay postage a second time but am glad I did it when I did so when I got there I had it ready to go.

We’ve got more birthdays this week and an anniversary. I’ll be back soon!

ps… Swagbuck update:  $45 in Amazon cards!

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