Marvelous Tuesday!

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Good morning! I keep thinking it is Monday! This week is going to mess me up! Anyway, what are you reading? I finished Get Outta My Face by Rick Horne. What a blessing. -- A must read for biblical counseling in the face of today's problems with teenagers.

Now I am on to Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin. Should be an excellent book. I am excited to read this one!

Sunday we had an awesome day! After church Tracy and Wesley came over. Tracy and I played hand and foot. Then after evening church LennaDee and Caitlin came over and I taught her! We had such a fab time. Then yesterday Caitlin came over for awhile to play with Lex, Ellie had Lacey to play with (she spent the night) and then Tracy came over, we dyed our hair. I can't wait to show it. Hilarious!!! We will stick with liquid dye and not creme! I hope it fades a bit.. lol

So I hope you have a blessed day. Happy reading!

Blessed Sunday ~

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We had such a wonderful time yesterday. The girls did too! Hunter's birthday party was a success. 6 kids showed up. Whew they are a LOT of work! Boys bouncing off the walls, literally! We played games, had pizza, opened presents, bowled and then ate ice cream cake. The bowling alley gave Hunter one of the pins from the lane and had all his friends autograph it for a keepsake. Isn't that awesome!!!

Jeff and I played the WII after we got home last night. Hunter had gone to a friend's, so it was just Ellie, Jeff and I. Jeff boxed so hard he had sweat coming down his face!!!! LOL

Today is church. Then after that, Tracy and LennaDee are coming over to play hand and foot. LennaDee wanted to learn and Caitlyn is spending the night. (They are in the middle of a quick move so I am not 100% on all of this YET!) If they don't come over, I will read my book, Get Outta My Face by Rick Horne.

Have a blessed Sunday. I have no stitchy pictures to show, didn't do anything last night!

Stitching!!!

So here is the first piece I finished this year, SMO January Blackwork!



Here is the second piece I finished, it was a UFO. It is SMO June 2006 Blackwork!



Here is the third piece I finished, the Jan 2010 Cal.



And last but never least, here is my WIP. From Cross Country Stitching, Song 2010.



I am so thrilled to be sharing again!! I have missed it the last couple of months. It is motivating to see others' pieces, but to see from one week to the next your piece growing is real motiviation!!! Enjoy!!

Picture time!!!

Here are some pictures from a month ago or so after everyone was ready for church!









Enjoy! I am soooo glad I remembered my photobucket password FINALLY! Now off to take pictures of my WIP and my finishes this year so far!!! Hooray!!

Party day!!!!

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Woohoo party day! Today is Hunter's 8th birthday party with his friends at the bowling alley. Ice cream cake, presents, bowling, hot dogs and soda, I'd said that sounds like a pretty good day!

Lex and Britt went with the youth group to a snow day in Yakima. Snowboarding, sledding, bonfire, sounds awesome too!

I got the camera stuff on here, I just forgot my password to photobucket. So if I can't get it today, will just make a new one!

I finished The Inn at Eagle Point. Ended really good!!! I love Sherryl Woods writing. I hope you check her out too!

I didn't stitch yesterday. I hope to tonight after we all meet back up!

Thank heavens for Fridays!!!

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I am sooooo glad today is Friday. Tomorrow, no rushing around, no getting up at 5:30! Hooray! A day to sleep in! Tomorrow we are going to the bowling alley for Hunter's birthday party with his friends. Should be lots of fun.

I am so loving working on Song 2010 from JJ. I am ready to work on the other lady but I have to finish the birdhouse on the left first! I think I will start backstitching on the left too, so I don't have it ALL to do at the end!

Still reading The Inn at Eagle Point. It is really good!

Anyone have any awesome weekend plans? Stay warm wherever you are!

Is it Friday YET??

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Well I have done really well this week! I have posted almost every day so far! Yay me! I have to delete a few programs on this laptop before I can put the camera stuff on, so maybe today will be the day I do that! I would sure love to share my stitchy finishes and show my progress on the one I am doing which when it is finished will look like this:

http://www.crosscountrystitching.com/data/project/216home.jpg

I have been enjoying stitching it. I am almost done with the whole left side. Now to do the other lady and backstitch! I always love the colors of JJ's charts! So many to make it look so awesome!!!

I am also in the middle of The Inn at Eagle Point by Sherryl Woods. Doing it as a buddy read with Kelly A. So far it is really good. I read almost half of it yesterday it is so good!!

Enjoy the day! Have a blessed one!

Almost the middle of Jan!

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Time sure is flying by! Almost the middle of Jan! I have such huge reading goals and this month is flying by. I hope to get at least half them read then! LOL

Yesterday we had a fabulous time! After the doctor appointment we went to the beauty supply place, I can't wait to take the girls there. Ellie loved it! Then we went to Freddy's to look at the DS and WII games. They have sooooo many!!! The kids were drooling. -- Last night, Jeff grilled some pork ribs, made potatoes only like he can and green beans with bacon. So yummy I wish I had some of those darn potatoes this morning!!! No one can beat his potatoes! LOL

Today is going to be a quiet day. I want to finish The Murderer's Daughters. I wasn't sure how much I was going to like this book but going back and forth between the two sisters, I LOVE it!!!!!!!!! Going to be a hit for 2010 for sure!

Have a wonderful Tuesday, the 12 of Jan!!!!

Just another manic Monday!!!

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It is Monday. It is not my usual everyone go back to school/work Monday though! Hunter has a cleaning with the dentist this morning. Then we are going to join Ellie at school to eat lunch with her. Then we take her to The Dalles for her doctor appointment.

I am really looking forward to spending some fun time with him today!!! I hardly ever get a day where the girls don't have school. He always goes to school, so this is a treat! Although he has learned to whistle, so that is ALL he does. Drives me insane!!!

I am reading The Murderer's Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers. I have it to review, I noticed it is coming out on the 18th, so I thought I better hurry!!!!

Well have a blessed Monday!! Stay warm. (I am soooo looking forward to spring!!)

Stitching right along!

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Good Sunday morning! I am all ready for church. Been up quite awhile, stitching and enjoying the quiet. :) -- This afternoon I am going to get my camera on this laptop so I can share pictures.

I am ALMOST done with SMO June 2006 blackwork. It was a UFO, I am so glad I am finishing it!!! Looks awesome!

Well have a wonderful lazy Sunday! Supper is going to be steak and crab, yum yum my stomach is growling already!!!

Welcome 2010!!!

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Welcome 2010! All is well in the Speelman household, just busy with birthdays and the holidays. We had a wonderful blessed holiday.

My camera isn't hooked up to this laptop YET, going to get that settled on here ASAP, so I can share pictures of the fam and my stitching.

My goal for 2010 is to finish up some of the UFO's I have (hahaha) and get some other things stitched that I have wanted to.

The boys went shopping today, so it's us girls at home. Did all the chores, now we are watching movies and I am stitching.

I am working on SMO 2010 Jan blackwork. The electric blue is beaUtiful!!! I can't wait to show it!

Be back soon, I hope!!!