Happy New Year!

 Happy New Year!

1. I'm not going to apologize any more for lack of posting. I think y'all understand I work full-time and posting is harder than it used to be. I'm going to post what I can when I can.

2. This will be a long Christmas and New Year's post. :)

3. I'm still quilting! I know, silly thing to say. I even got one more quilt finish for 2020. Eventually I'll make a post about it. :)

So Christmas was a little different this year.

I think that's something everyone can say.

For the most part we stayed home.

We visited Dwayne's parents down the road on Christmas and went to his brother's New Year's Eve.

We video chatted with my mom and some dear friends. That was different but fun!

We got snow for Christmas!

It did take a couple of days for all of it to melt.

This is our first Christmas with the new camera.

I captured quite a few good smiles!

:)

Why use a pocket knife when you can use a bigger knife.

Someone's excited!

Happy writer.

Happy for hearing protection.

Really cool powerful spot light.

It's so powerful it reflects the stop sign a mile away!

New knife.

I missed the smile on this one.

How many 15 year olds are excited to get the complete collection of the Federalist Papers?

This history buff certainly was!

We got this silly melting snowman.

It's basically softer silly putty with snowman pieces.

It's been fun watching it melt over and over.

Three generations.

Really bad photo of the video chat with Grandma Knapp.

Chicken feet socks!

(Connor pulled up his pant legs so you can see.)

Bolt tank top that he really likes.

I got a couple of quilty things.

One of them was this cool pin-cushion magnet.

The pins lay so that the heads are easy to grab.

You can drop them on it and they turn to lay like this... well most of them anyway.

Then we discovered that you can balance one on its point.

We did manage standing two at once but the photo was blurry.

The aforementioned quilt! It's a Christmas quilt for the family to enjoy.

And we got ourselves a new stove!

I've named it Big Iron.

So that leaves us to today, New Year's Day.

The new year has begun with an ice storm.

Maybe 2020 wasn't ready to leave yet! ;)

The power went out for about 30 seconds and thankfully came back on.

I know others in our area weren't so fortunate.

An ice storm isn't exactly how you want to ring in the new year.

It is beautiful though!

I'll end this post with photos of Nolan playing with Pepper.

Quite cute!

Not a spoiled dog in the least!

Thirteen

Like a good mom, I forgot to make a birthday post for Connor.

I guess I was a little distracted.

Better late than never!

So we officially have two teenagers in the house.

We need another fridge. 

To my surprise he requested an ice cream cake.

That's quite the bonfire.

Quick, blow them out before it melts! 

It was hard work...

but eventually he got them all.

The kid loves to build things with his Legos.

This is the latest creation, complete with a scope!

Oh and one other thing, he was inducted into the Junior High National Honor Society.

Not bad for just turning thirteen.

Connor's Creation

Nolan is our author and Connor is our builder.

Connor recently built this while sick this week.

Nolan seems to have a talent for writing.

It comes easy to him.

His stories are amazingly creative.

As much as Nolan creates with words, Connor creates with Legos (and Bionicles).

That comes easy for him.

He builds things like this all the time.

No instructions, just a boy's imagination.

Keep on building Connor.