sheep in the city

Christmas gifts and goodies

I couldn't go a day longer without showing you a few pictures from Christmas!!!

Here's our Christmas Pajama's for 2005. They had dice all over them. My grandma, who seriously can do anything, took a small pair and made little pj's for Alice!! So fun...I have to say that this is one of the most fun traditions we have in my family!!

I can't believe that Alice even left this reindeer headband on long enough for us to take a picture! But she did!! Of course, she was the star of the show at our house!!

My niece, Alice, got a trike from my parents. She seemed to enjoy it once she figured out what to do. It was so fun to have her there and watch her experience Christmas.

Here are the goodies that I received on Christmas. Dutch Blitz is a card game that kind of reminds me of Nerts or a fast paced Skip Bo. Very fun and addictive. The cat tin had an initial charm for my Pandora bracelot. The book AlterKnits, Yarn Harlot, and a Mary Engelbreit book on collections. A Tania Howells Knitty yellow messenger bag. I love that it doesn't have velcro!! A brown "String: A Knitting Boutique" GoKnit Pouch. And the coolest thing was a surprise that my Grandpa Poland brought me. It was a folder of all my Grandma Ailene's old crocheting and knitting patterns. She passed away a little over a year ago, and she had been looking for a pattern for me at the time. She made all of her grandkids an afghan when they graduated from high school, and this was no small feat since my dad came from a family of 7 and she had 4 kids of her own! That's a lot of afghans!! Anyway, I had asked my grandpa if there was anyway that he could find some of her patterns for me. So cool...this one is even the exact pattern she used for my afghan written out in her handwriting. That's a treasure.