Retreat!

It's a retreat weekend!  Tomorrow I get to spend the whole day sewing and I'm very excited.  When thinking of the projects to work on I felt really guilty that I hadn't finished several of my Christmas presents (more than half...)  I knew I should bring those projects to work on but honestly I didn't really want to.  I don't get sewing days like this very often anymore and I have a whole room full of projects waiting to be worked on.  So in order to not feel really really guilty about not bringing Christmas presents I worked hard this week to finish most of them.  I only have two sewing projects and a couple of computer projects left!  Amelia also has something in the works but we need Daddy's help with that one.  Yay! 

I can't share pictures of what I've been working on yet because I'm finding out more and more of the family is actually reading this thing so in order to be safe I'll share after Christmas.

I can share the snowflake we made at school this week.  Amelia is getting to be a pro at stamping her hand.

In addition to crawling and rolling everywhere she's also working very hard at standing. 

Her Godmother Hilary came to visit on Sunday and we went to a new friend's birthday party so of course she had to wear a party dress.

I decided to work on the interior of our house again.  A project I had started before being pregnant which quickly halted once that happened.  I'd like to paint the living room and had several simple furniture items I wanted Lucas to make.  We went to price out everything and then chose a few projects to start with.  He's been pretty busy fixing cars and snow blowers so I realized that these projects most likely wouldn't happen before Christmas and I was fine with that.  Apparently my father doesn't have enough to do this week.  After 4 days just about everything is done and being painted now.  :-)  So to thank my dad Amelia and I had him over for coffee and homemade doughnuts this morning.  I used this recipe. Yum! 

I'm off to start packing!