After a nice long weekend relaxing at home it was a bit tough for me to get back into weekday mode. (Saya doesn’t have school on Mondays, so she and I always have three-day weekends.) We never want to leave the house on weekends now, but we did have friends over. A friend from Pittsburgh [...]
Archive for January, 2012
stitching and other things
Posted in uncategorized on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
color
Posted in uncategorized on January 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Junji has been spoiling us with juice almost every day for the past month. It is usually carrot, orange, and apple and sometimes he adds other stuff like ginger, celery, or spinach. It is so delicious, and look at that color! I love it. I hope he keeps it up. We had been borrowing the [...]
saya’s dollhouse
Posted in uncategorized on January 15, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Saya got this awesome dollhouse for Christmas. It was made for her by her Uncle Jim. It is fun to decorate it with crafts and small art works.
good to be home
Posted in uncategorized on January 13, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Man, it feels so good to be home. We moved into our house a few days before Thanksgiving. We took down wallpaper, painted, replaced the kitchen countertop and backsplash. There are many things we dream of doing in the future, we’ll paint the kitchen in the spring, but for now we are taking a break [...]
wide world
Posted in uncategorized on January 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
We are back from our trip to Colorado. During long hours in the car, marathon shopping at IKEA, and hiking in Colorado, Saya was a champ through it all. On our third day of driving, somewhere in Nebraska, she looked out of her window and said, “Wow, I never knew the world was so big.” [...]
ornaments
Posted in uncategorized on January 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I made some ornaments for friends with snowflakes and their children’s initials. Now that Christmas is over I can post this pic The cross stitch patterns are from here.
post christmas
Posted in uncategorized on January 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The Christmas season can be fun, busy, sometimes stressful. We love going to my grandparents’ house in the mountains after Christmas where there is a big fireplace, and no cable, and no internet. The weather was gorgeous, even though it was way too warm for the end of December. I loved spending time with my [...]
Happy New Year!
Posted in uncategorized on January 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Hi everyone. I just wanted to pop in to wish you a happy new year. I will post more later today, mostly pictures from our time away. We are home now for two days and then Saya and I will hit the road again to help my sister move to Colorado. In these two days [...]
