Conference weekend is a time to enjoy and appreciate hearing the word of the Lord in your grubbies, from the comfort of your own recliner. The messages are always inspiring, meaningful, timely., etc. We were happy that Autumn was able to come to visit and spend the day with us on Sunday. We enjoyed chicken enchiladas and the treats she brought--the very tasty Cream Cheese Danish as well as Spinach, Artichoke & Parmesan dip and chips. Thanks! (Sorry we didn't get any pictures of Peanut...only her food.)
Airie (previously) and I (while watching Conference) finished crocheting 25 purple baby hats for the Purple Crying Time Project. The hats, along with information to educate and help prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome will be given to new mothers in hospitals during the month of November across the nation. Many states and areas of Canada are participating by knitting or crocheting caps for newborns. Would you believe that the national headquarters is right here in Farmington, Utah, in a nice office behind the old K-Mart? Our contributions ended up being quite a melange of colors and patterns...probaby 10 different styles/combinations. I added some blue trim to a couple of mine for the sake of little boys!
I took the 25 purple caps to the headquarters where all the employees were feverishly knitting away and planning a valley-wide "Knit-In" for 4 hours at Primary Children's Hospital the following day.Speaking of purple, as most of you know, we get together with Darren & Livy Franchow (Dad's old boss, who has MS and retired just before Dad) once a month at Little America for lunch and a 2-hour gab session. They are such nice people and fun to talk to. They have a "purple thumb" and grow wonderful lavendar bushes that are the talk of their neighborhood. They brought us several vases of dried lavender last week...here is a photo of one:
Notice how green and lush our backyard looks for October. However the next day, the temperatures dropped 40 degrees, the wind blew, the rains came and it snowed in the hills. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! This isn't a good photo, because I took it too late in the day, but you can see the cold, white stuff on the hills to the east of our Ornamental Pear tree. Boo Hoo.
Notice how green and lush our backyard looks for October. However the next day, the temperatures dropped 40 degrees, the wind blew, the rains came and it snowed in the hills. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! This isn't a good photo, because I took it too late in the day, but you can see the cold, white stuff on the hills to the east of our Ornamental Pear tree. Boo Hoo.
2 comments:
I really like the dark plum colored yarn of those 3 hats in the front. :) Glad you had a good conference weekend. We did too, but could have used some of that spinach dip, hehe. "My spinach puffs!!!"
It was really nice to come over and watch conference on Sunday, I'm glad you liked the spinach artichoke dip (it's one of my favorites). Your little hats turned out so cute and I'm still amazed at how fast you can do those! and I love lavender, we have some growing at my work and it has stayed beautiful all summer...it probably liked all the rain we got.
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