Texas

Blogger seems impossible to work with when it comes to lots of pictures. It moves pictures around at random and squishes text so no telling how this will turn out. I seem to run out of day and don't have enough time to post, even with the best of intentions, so here are several new posts in a row.

These are from our Texas trip, last weekend. We went to see Sam, Sarah and Mike's new baby. By the time I got the camera out, though, I just got one picture of Sam. He was a lovely 9lbs 5 oz (same size as Alex). The top picture is Alex and Katie.





While in Texas we picked up our new doggie, Sandy. She is a pomeranian but has had a haircut so she's not too fluffy at the moment. Three dogs. That's a lot, but she's a lovely little pooch. She's about 6 and it is nice to get a used dog and not a puppy! She is well behaved and mostly follows me like a shadow. She is doing well, here.

The top right picture is the Aucoin's standing in their very own new pile of dirt which will someday be a new house!

Reading

I thought this one was too cute. Aaron is reading some, now, and he was reading Alex one of his favorite books. Aaron also has a myster orb over his head. I took 12 pictures from the same angle and only this one has the orb. Hmmm.

Mardi Gras

Better late than never, I suppose. Here are some pictures from Mardi Gras in Morgan City. The kids had fun. As you can see in the picture, Julia had a lovely attitude. She was getting mad when she didn't catch beads but refused to wear the ones she did catch.

With the chicken is Katie (our neighbor), Alex, and Ranalee, who is the kids 3rd cousin. It still remains a mystery why Calvin owns a giant chicken suit! Julia hated the giant chicken and ran away from it.

knitting

Here are some of my latest projects. The hedgehog is way cuter in real life. Apparently he doesn't photograph well. The cat was supposed to be done in a fluffy yarn but I gave up with the particular yarn I'd selected and decided to knit in a plain yarn so I could practice. The pattern was much more complicated than anything I'd done before. Needless to say, the fluffy yarn would be much cuter. I'm not doing a new one in fluff and it's coming out great. The alligator is nifty, too. I love the Lion webpage. Lots of free patterns.