Hey there! It's Monday. Has your week gotten off to a good start? I have some fun pictures to share with you today. We got to spend quite a bit of time with my family on Saturday. On our way to the get-together though, we stopped at World Market. A couple of you sweet readers mentioned that you thought World Market sold Tim Tams -- the yummy Australian cookies that we've gotten kind of fond of (wink!), so we stopped in to see if we could buy them here. Turns out, we CAN! Only in the US, they're called Arnott's, which is the name of the company that makes them. When we found the cookies, we turned around to discover that we can also buy Vegemite here too! Haha! Bart's not a Vegemite fan, but I tried it myself for the first time earlier this year and I have to say that I didn't hate it. LOL! It was pretty different, but I'd try it again. :) We've shopped at World Market for a long time and never realized we could get these fun Australian goodies right here in town. Fun!
Oh, and since I know some of you will ask, yes Bart is on crutches in the photo above. His knee still hasn't quite healed up since his surgery this summer so his doctor instructed him to use crutches for two weeks to see if his knee will get better. He wants to determine if it's the bone bruise that they saw this summer and if it's not better in two weeks, then it's probably not the bone bruise and he'll have to have another MRI to see if something else is going on. So, there you have it......sorry for the side-track, but I know you girls -- one of you (or 20!) would have asked! Hee.
So, I thought it might be fun to take along some supplies so that us girls could work on a little project at the get-together. My sisters and I worked on sets of Christmas gift tags - ones that they could use themselves or give as gifts. This is my sister, Gracie, gettin' glittery.
We created quite a mess on the kitchen table, but I think we all had fun. :) The boys were all sitting right behind us in the living room, watching tv, so we could all talk and laugh and carry on, but we were getting a little girly project done at the same time.
This is my sister, Diann (the babies' mama). This was a great time for her to get to work on a crafty project because there were enough of us there to help keep track of the babies so she could actually have a little mama time.
Baby Ally (hardly a baby at all -- can you believe how BIG she is?!) had her first stamping lesson! See the stamped tag on her shirt? I used some dimensionals to stick it on her. Ha! You can also see a few stray dimensionals left on her shirt. :) She liked her tags....for awhile anyway!
Here are the little tins of tags that we made. I only took two stamp sets -- 2009 Holiday Tags Collection and Signature Christmas -- but look at all that we were able to create! I'm thinking of using mine on cards instead of as tags.
Can you see the girls in your family working on a project like this, say at your Thanksgiving gathering? That way, you'd all have tags ready to roll when you wrap your Christmas gifts!
Here's Ally and Aunt Glory (my youngest sister). Styyyyyylin'!
And look how big this guy has gotten! This is baby Malachi. What a sweetie.
Nap time!
After we got done crafting and eating, it was time to play some games which included a few on the Wii. Even Ally got in the spirit! Cuuuuute, right???
And so, I'll leave you with this for today.......
Smooches!!
