Birthdays and such....

Just a quick note...the fiber pictured above is from Willow Creek Farm Alpacas in Fulton, NY. It is 2nd or 3rd shearing from a male alpaca named Beau. It is the most incredibly soft alpaca I've ever felt! It nearly resembles angora!!! Anyway, I've been spinning up some of their fiber for them to resell in their store....a nice side job for me and a great item to offer in their store! They entered a bulky skein of my handspun(from this fiber) at the Empire Fleece Symposium at TurningStone Casino in Verona, NY and it earned a BLUE RIBBON! This is very exciting for me because I have never entered any of my handspun in a competition! Maybe I will now! ;)

This must be the prettiest yarn I've seen, ever....I found this on Ebay and had to have it! It's Opal yarn in the Magic colorway. I guess it's a tough one to find, too. I am more motivated to finish my first pair of socks so I can get started on a new pair with this lovely yarn!

This is my son, Brendan. He turned 5 last month on the 26th. As you can tell by this photo, he is a live-wire!! He puts everything he has into everything he does. Very intense little guy! We had a birthday party for my kids and sister at our home on the 28th of January, not much, but it was fun. He is playing with mini machines and cars that were a gift from my parents. He loves them....

This is my little doll, Caitlin Rachel. She turned 1 on January 12. She has such a personality for someone so little! She does have quite the temper though...have to nip that in the butt soon! She's been walking since the beginning of December and she has 8 teeth, 4 on the top, 4 on the bottom. (She's bitten her fingers a couple of times while munching...the look on her face is priceless....like she doesn't quite understand what happened!) She doesn't say too many words yet, but she understands A LOT....she likes to help me with the laundry, handing me clothes to put in the washer. :) There's a 4 year difference between her and her siblings, so after Brendan heads off to school this fall, it's just her and me all day.

This is the cake I made for the party...it was chocolate with cream cheese frosting. MMMMM!!! Everyone loved it....though Brendan only ate the frosting! Sigh.

This is Cara holding Caitlin sometime last month. Cara turned 7 on the 25th(yes, a day before Brendan). She's very smart, loves Care Bears...if she never had anything but Care Bears, she wouldn't care. She loves to play with Caitlin and is very good about watching her for me when I need to do something. She's very tall for her age...probably due to the fact that her daddy is about 6'1"! Very long, slender legs....we'll have to watch out when she becomes a teenager!

We decided to send Cara to a local non-denominational Christian school for 1st grade. I was homeschooling her for Kindergarten, then Caitlin came along in the middle of that. Needless to say I am terribly unorganized and I didn't want to mess up her schooling because of my lack! She was also very unfocused and wanted to play all day....nope, sorry. She's doing wonderfully now and loves school....can't wait to go back the next day!


I'm off to card some blue(natural) angora fiber....need to spin it up for a lady in Texas. She requested all the angora I have be spun! Thank you!

Blessings, joy and peace.....