Beginning of a new decade

I can't believe the things that have happened in just a few short days of a new year. I had been promising a friend of mine for years that I would make him a t-shirt blanket with his old paramedic t-shirts. They found the sack of them over Christmas, so now I had to do it. New Year's Eve his wife and I went to Walmart to purchase all the supplies. Thankfully we were not the only people at Walmart 11:30 pm. We are getting OLD :) The next day we worked 7 solid hours and up past my bed time. Roger's daughter was making a pillow with the extra fabric. She had fun putting it together.



Addie sewing her pillow up for her Daddie. That was so much fun.





On January 2nd we finished the whole blanket. The funny thing is that I had 2 men help me finish it. Roger sewed on his own patches and when I was tacking the back onto the front I had both Roger and Shane on the floor helping. It made it go by so fast. I was a fun evening.


FINISHED PRODUCT!!!

Christmas

What do I say about Christmas Break? I will try to make it short. The first few days were very peaceful and restful and then I got a second shot in my back.I spent the next 10 days VERY sore, never thinking it would ease up. That evening I drove to spend a couple days with my family. Shane was going to come up the next day but he got snowed in at home and pulled people out of the ditches with a tractor. I missed seeing all the 4 foot drifts. There was no snow at my parents house. We had a gigantic sleepover with all the nieces and nephews while we all waited for Santa Claus. We had so much fun opening gifts with 3 year old's hands in everything. They made it so enjoyable along with the older kids faces lighting up too.


Everyone enjoyed holding baby


Jenna's first Christmas


Proud Grandpa!!


Little one's enjoying looking at the presents under the tree!!



After Christmas we just enjoyed our time off. Shane even had several "half days" off to enjoy because of the snow. My dogs, Kolton and Shane enjoyed the snow so much that they had to play in it and eat snow balls. When will Kolton learn that throwing snow balls at his dad just gets him in trouble even when he thinks he is getting bigger than him. :)




The dogs wanted to help with Kolton getting wet and cold....





Balee enjoyed chasing and eating snow!!