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Hello Everyone.  It's been a busy week around here.  I've been doing lots of knitting and crochet and since I'm feeling a little bit better every day, I've been trying to catch up on some of my cleaning although that's a never ending battle.

I finished the fourth "Antler Toque" but forgot to take a photo of the finished hat and gave it to a friend at church on Sunday.  She loves it.  I've made her lots of hats and she wears them everywhere.  She especially liked the double brim because she's prone to ear infections and this keeps her ears toasty warm.

One of the teens at church was selling poinsettias for his senior class at school so we purchased both a white one and a red one.  They are both gorgeous and help make up for the lack of a tree this year.

I also made this doily last week.

Here's another view.  It isn't lopsided, although it looks like it is here. :-)  It's 21 inches across.  My gift closet was getting to have slim pickings, so I thought I would make some up to have on hand.

One of the grandma's at church has three small grandsons.  A 3 year old and a set of twin 2 year olds.  She asked me Sunday if I could make them Batman hats for Christmas because the 3 year old is crazy over Batman.  This is what I came up with.  I'm taking this one on Sunday for one of the twins to try on for size before I make the others.  I don't think it's too bad do you although my color work isn't very good.  On moving boys no one will notice. Ha!

Another doily started last night.  It's much smaller and almost done, I think there are 3 rows left.

Sunday evening we had a ladies ornament/kitchen gadget exchange at church.  I forgot to take a picture of the goodies until several gifts had been chosen already. Lots of fun things and good food too.  We do this every year while the men have a tool exchange upstairs.  Fun!

Sitting by the toasty fire yesterday while knitting.  It has gotten cold here the past few days and we have a winter storm watch for tomorrow and Friday.  Ick.

Lot's of snow in the mountains but not here...yet.  Tomorrow it sounds like this view will change to white.  The clouds are obscuring the top of Mt. Spokane in this picture.

Some of my snowmen.  We didn't put a tree up this year, but I love snowmen and  have them scattered around.  On the far right is the Nativity that Teresa gave me last year.

This isn't a very good picture because I was taking a picture of my iPad with my phone while face-timng with Alex on his phone last night. Isn't technology something?  He had just picked Mutsuko up at the train station.  Yesterday was Alex's 28 birthday, (well, it's today here in the States, but it was today yesterday in Japan!)  Yes, our son who loves Japan was born on Pearl Harbor day.  Ironic isn't it?  Anyway, Mutsuko lived with us for over a year when she was going to school here for her Masters in Business.  She has always been very close to Alex and to our family, much like another big sister to Alex.  She's been back to visit us several times and we've visited her in Aomori City where she lives.   She was laughing at something I said here.  Dennis and I both just love Mutsuko and hope to see her in person again before too long passes.  Isn't she cute?  We sure miss her.

I need to get some laundry done today.  We have one of the Samsung washers that has been recalled because apparently they explode while you're washing clothes!  It's only a year old and we haven't had any problems but it needs to have the appropriate "fix" done to it for the recall.  They're supposed to be here tomorrow, so I want to have everything done in case they tear it apart and can't fix it right away for some reason.

Take care my friends and I hope you're all having a wonderful holiday season and remembering why we are celebrating.  Jesus came to earth for all of us as a tiny baby.  What a wonderful gift from God.

"The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.  We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the father, full of grace and truth." John 1:14

Blessings,

Betsy