Blazer Game in the Suites!!

Wow!  My FIRST Blazer game ever and it gets to be in the suites!  How sweet is that?  So the suite is at the top of the Rose Garden, there are three TV's and then of course the BIG screen in the center above the court that is so easy to see and watch the game from there.  Just a few people were in our suite...and not much noise, so it was quite enjoyable for us "older" folks who really don't like loudness!  They offer free food in the suite and drinks too!  ...let's see, there was some sushi, some asparagus wrapped in a philo dough (yum!), popcorn and then Pizza Hut Pizza...Dina and I opted to order a sandwich with pasta salad that we shared and they didn't even charge us for that!  The Blazers were playing Cleveland and really I was feeling sorry for the team, cause they were getting wooped badly!  Dina told me it would NOT be appropriate for me to be cheering for the other team!  Needless to say, we left before the game was over, and I took a shot of the score board as we were leaving.  The Blazers did end up with 111 points I believe.  And if we would have stuck around to the sweet end we all (everyone in the Rose Garden) would have been given a coupon for a free chalupa at Taco Bell...that's okay, we figured we could do without that, but really wanted to get out before the crowds...I would even go again if I could sit in the suite!

Dina, Jamie and Scott...they are looking happy to be sitting in the suite...

View from the top where we are sitting!

Snapped this shot as the group was getting out of their seats and leaving...poor Cleveland!

Boys will be boys

It is about 5 PM on a Tuesday night....Ellie and Scott have volleyball practice, so Dina and I decide to head to Costco because she needed dog food... as we are piling into the car, Jalen insists on meeting us at the top of the driveway.  So we pull out of the garage and are heading up the driveway and what we see is a little 3 1/2 year old boy standing on top of the pillar post with his pants down at his ankle and pee-ing onto the grass!!  I grabbed my camera out of my purse and Dina tried to hurray and get a shot of that...too late, he was done.  Dina tried to tell him to put his pants down so we could get a picture...his reply was classic, "NOT GONNA HAPPEN!!"  What a hoot...he still looked pretty cute up there on top of the pillar.

Hair do dads

 I have some felt and I have some dies to cut flowers and other shapes...and I also found a blog that made some hair accessories and I knew I was in craft heaven!  I do have three grand daughters you know...so I am always looking for ideas to spruce them up...here are two of the grand daughters modeling the hair pieces...and then the little brother could NOT be left out of the pictures...so he too donned a little elastic hair piece...because he has so much hair (only it is really short!)  too funny....

And this last one was made with silk material...I cut it into circles free hand, then I used a cigarette lighter (had to borrow from Dina ...she uses them to light candles) and held it close to the fabric...it melts it a bit and curls the edges inward...gives it a neat effect.  Then I hot glued each circle together and finally ended with some beads...we decided this would look really good with a pin attached....this idea came from the same site as the previous post. 

So that is it for the crafty segment of this blog...

A new Scarf

I seem to be doing blog hopping these days...you know, you find one site and that person mentions something...and there is a link, so I have to check out the 'link' and then off  I go...into the world of blogging and if  I can remember where it even all started I am lucky...but this site has some pretty cute things...and this scarf was one of them...so I was at JoAnn's fabrics and decided to pick up some pretty green flannel...there is nothing like a soft warm flannel around your neck on these windy chilly days.  Now don't get me wrong, I love knitting scarves and wearing them too, but flannel...so soft and nice.  And this one has a little twist to it that I thought was unique...if you are going to make one be sure to read the directions (which are NOT hard), however she did make one mistake and I didn't catch it...cut two pieces of flannel 60 inches long.  Then cut four inches off both ends of ONE piece of flannel.  On the piece of flannel that you just cut off 4 inches, you are going to add a 3 inch by 20 inch gathered piece of fabric.  Well, hello...when you add three more inches to that one piece and sew on the 4 inches that you cut off, then that leaves the second piece (the back of the scarf) a tad bit short....like 6 inches short...so just use your noodle when following her directions)

http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/01/gathered-flannel-scarf.html

Isn't it cute?   And don't you love the little gathered section?  I think these would make lovely gifts...so many different colors to choose from also....so check it out and I bet you too will be spending hours looking through her site and finding all sorts of things you might just want to make.!!

Make it Monday Glitter and Scor tape

The bear and sentiments are from the Baby Button Bits...I used the scor-pal to make my diagonal lines and then placed the scor tape inside and added the glitter!  It sure looks sparkly and fresh...just perfect for a new baby!

34 Years Ago....

I wrote in the card for Dina..."I can't believe 34 years ago you made us a family"...where did the years go?  And the crazy thing to think about is...in another 34 years I will be 94 and Dina will be 68!  HOLY MOLY!!  That is crazy stuff!!

We had almost everyone at our birthday breakfast celebration...Tristan fell asleep, so Aaron stayed home with him...Ellie is heading to a basketball game after breakfast...so she is in her sports uniform (of course, that girl is always wearing tank tops in the middle of winter!).  After the basketball game, Dina's family is heading up to Seattle to spend a couple of days with her friend Emily and family.  Dina will have some girlfriend time while the husbands watch the kids, but tonight they will all share some Papa Murphy's pizza and catch up on renewing old friendships!

If my memory serves me right (and...that is sometimes questionable!! lol!) this bright, crisp day is just like it was 34 years ago...I definitely remember the 18th being a nice day as Scott and I went to the hospital as I was having some contractions, but they sent me out to walk around as I wasn't "quite ready" to have her!  We walked around a park and it was a lovely day..then stopped home to pack our bag and back to the hospital we went.  I ended up having her at 1:12 AM on this day, the 19th, 34 years ago!

 And this is the birthday card I made for her...inside it says:  Wishing you a day filled with love and joy.












Happy Happy Birthday to my beautiful and delightful daughter Dina!

7 Stitches for Addie...carrying on a tradition!

Feb. 5 night time emergency room visit

About 9:00 PM Lacey called me on her way to the ER...Addie had fallen and hit her forehead on a cabinet...split it open and she ended up needing 7 stitches.  So I met Lacey at the hospital to give her support...we were there until nearly 11 pm.  Addie was a real trooper...NO tears or screaming for her...I must admit by the last two stitches, she was beginning to squirm a little bit and kind of 'whine'..of course she was very happy to get a popsicle when it was all done and the plastic glove blown up was a big hit, especially when the nurse drew a face on it!!  (we played 'catch' with it while waiting for the doctor to come stitch her up...he had another 3 year old boy who had to have head stitches also!!)

Now you are probably wondering about the "tradition"...well, Dina started it when she was a little over two and fell at my parents home and hit her forehead on the coffee table...yup, needed stitches! Then Lacey too needed stitches on her head and her son Caleb had stitches on his forehead when we was three years old...Ellie and Jalen have each had stitches on the head, but not the forehead, they both had them around their lips...so far Lily and Tristan are free from stitches, but they are still young, and a lot can happen in the next few years!