Whew! What a Week…

Posted on June 25, 2009 by gettinitpegged

Hiya!  I’ve been under the weather since Monday…well, actually more like 6 feet under  with a terrible onslaught of summer flu/cold and have been unable to get to the blog since then.  But let me tell you that it’s not for lack of things to say!

Mom and Dad under ArchWe held my parents’ 50th Wedding Anniversary party on Saturday and it went beautifully!  How many couples do you know that have celebrated their 50th anniversary?  It’s an amazing milestone to be proud of and  hollered from the rooftops. 🙂  My siblings and I have been planning this since we were preparing for my nephew’s wedding last July.  We’ve been meeting covertly to discuss all the planning and to divy out all the assignments.  There are five of us to divide it all between, but even so, it turned out to be a very big to-do list!  My end of the deal was to create a closeup of candlewebsite for them, and to design and purchase all the supplies for the invites, and all the floral arrangements for decoration.  I also got the task of scanning all of my family’s old photo albums to be used in a video slide show for the event.  This alone was a beast of a chore and took my dd and me 12 hours straight on the last day of the push before I absolutely had to hand over the scanned pics to my brother to put into slide show format…whew!  Everything else on my list was a breeze once that was completed, lol!

mom and dad in the buffet lineOn the day before the event, we got together at my 2nd eldest sister’s house (who was really the director for the entire affair and all meetings took place at her home) to prep the food and decor.  I made 12 floral arrangements, 8 gallons of iced tea, and helped skewer countless chicken ka-bobs for the dinner…did I tell you that playing with raw meat gets me queasy, lol?…but let me tell you…they were absolutely delicious!

emily with mom's dressMy eldest daughter spent the prep day in repairing little tears in my mother’s wedding gown…from age and kids trying on throughout the years, you know how that is…she made countless tiny little stitches to bring it back to it’s original glory and we steamed it to be placed on display at the party.  Everyone enjoyed looking at it, and it was made a hundred times more special to know that my grandmother, my mom’s mom, made the dress herself!  🙂  Mom and Dad by big photoWhat a lot of love went into that gown throughout a span of 50 years…

My eldest sister’s family made this so cool actual size blow up from one of my parents’ wedding photos, and we had this on display near the dress.  What a ton of fun we had with it!   She also put together a fun photo board that had pics grouped by decade…some of them a real riot, lol!

My niece and nephew, believe it or not…made this absolutely gorgeous cake for the celebration!  Isn’t it wonderful???  We have a very creative group of relatives, if I do say so myself! 😉

Katie finishing cake 2The CakeCake Closeupemily stuffing her face with cake!

In the end, I think my mom and dad were very much surprised at everything we had put into the celebration (as we had kept everything top secret…they only knew what time we were going to be picking them up, lol!) and will remember the day with great fondness.  It’s not every day you get to celebrate 50 years of commitment to someone!

Then.,..Father’s Day went by in a rush, and I ended up really sick on Monday, and I’m so ashamed to say that with all the hub-bub of the previous events and then getting sick, both my hubby and I completely forgot that our 19th wedding anniversary was Monday as well!  😛  I think that’s the first time in 19 years we have actually forgot.  Since I’ve been sick all week, we decided we’ll celebrate on this coming weekend to make up for forgetting.  😉  I’d better get lots of rest, because I don’t want to miss out…again!

Hope you’re having a happy week…

Bethany~

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Happy Father’s Day!

Posted on June 21, 2009 by gettinitpegged

EvanI think that my girlies have the best daddy in the world…he’s so ready to help them understand everything and anything they’re curious about, he’s always there to lead them into deeper understanding and therefore to protection against the things in life that we, as a couple, had to learn the hard way.  My eldest daughter said not too long ago that she thinks she’ll be doing okay in life, because we’ve told her so many stories of the wacky things we did when growing up and the consequences thereof, that she knows what to avoid before the situation even comes to her door.  Of course, I responded that I’m sure she’ll have her own mistakes to make, but at least they most likely won’t be the same ones we had to struggle through, lol.

Evan with his girliesMy hubby is also such a zany, wacky guy that we never have lack of things to laugh about.  🙂  One of my younger daughter’s friends was here for a sleep over not too long ago, and we were bantering back and forth at the dinner table as we usually do, when suddenly she laughed out loud and said that being at our house was like being in a sitcom TV show, lol!  We all thought that was hilarious and thought it might be a lot of fun to have the “Dailey Life Reality Show”… I know for myself there’s been plenty of times I wish I had a video camera literally glued to my hand to catch my hubby’s extraordinary gift of wit. This is a part of his nature that just spills out freely to all those around that he feels comfortable with.   🙂 

In short, because I really could go on and on, he’s just the best dad ever, and I’m so thankful that he’s the father of my girlies.  We love you, Evan!

In honor of all daddies out there, I thought I’d link to a special video put together by my favorite musical artist of all time: Steven Curtis Chapman… with his lovely song written just for daddies and daughters:

Have a wonderful Fathers’ Day!

Bethany~

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Newest Clique Pics!

Posted on June 18, 2009 by gettinitpegged

I’d love to share with you some new Clique Pics I received from my friend Marilyn, a sweet lady who has regularly attended our local loomers knit night for the past couple of years (Wow! Has it really been that long already??).   A BIG thanks goes to her for sending them along to me and giving me the go-ahead for doing a little “show-n-tell” for her.  😀

Chunky Slipper Socks by MarillynFirst up is our most recently published Peggin’ Pages Pattern:

Chunky Slipper Socks!

Don’t they look so fluffy and cozy?

Cabled Scarf by MarilynNext up are a couple of classics by Isela Phelps.

Cabled Mitts by MarilynWe spent a little time learning how to create cables on looms and these are the projects that Marilyn completed using this great technique!

Half Finged Gloves by MarilynAnd finally, we all enjoyed a series of classes on Karen Gielen’s Half Fingered Gloves, complete with her informative project DVD!  Didn’t Marilyn’s come out great?  🙂

Brenda's bootiesOne more little item that has been listed on the Clique Pics page, but I didn’t formally introduce it here is this photo provided by Brenda Hoffman featuring both sets of baby tootsie wear:

Bethany’s Booties & ‘lil Tykies!

These are definitely the Cuteness!  🙂

Thank you ladies so much for sharing these great photos of your very nicely done looming projects!  If you have any completed items created from projects found here at the Loom Knitter’s Clique, please feel free to send them to me pronto and I’ll be tremendously tickled to post them for all to see and admire.  😀

Happy Looming!

Bethany~

 

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