Flowers

My birthday was December 20. The kids and my mother-in-law put together a wonderful dinner and had these beautiful flower and balloons for me. They were so nice to have around for my birthday and the holiday.

My sweet husband got me these beautiful poincettas for Christmas. (What a stinker we were not suppose to get each other anything but I was really surprised and greatful beacuse they are wonderful).

Crochet Along Afghan

Most of you know I love to crochet and in September I came across on one of the sites I follow what was called a crochet along. A crochet along is when you are given pieces of a project each week until it is done and you don't know what it will look like until the end. All I knew about this project was the colors and that it would be an afghan so I decided I would try and do this for my mother-in-law for Christmas since she would be here and I knew she would love something like this. It was a lot of fun to do and see pieces of an afghan slowly coming together week by week. I almost finished it in time for Christmas day. I had the whole thing put together to wrap for her other then the border. I was able to finish the border before she left and this is the finished Afghan. I am very happy with how it came out and so was she.