Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone and welcome to my newest followers.  May 2012 be a year of love, laughter, happiness, good health and of course lots of stitchiness!

We had a wonderful Christmas.  The boys were home and hubby had the week off.  Despite our best laid plans, we still did not accomplish everything that we thought we would.  Christmas morning we opened all our presents and had our traditional cinnamon rolls.  Yummy!

Gotta love the smiles! 

Time to eat!

My mom really surprised me with one of her gifts.  She handed me a box that was heavy.  When I opened it, I found that it was filled with frogs!  I began a frog hunting mission this past year and she really helped me out.  She found a great little antique place and throughout the summer/fall went back a few times and found all of these!  Now I need to go in search of some scissors to fill all of these!

During the week, we took the boys to the Turkey Hill Experience.  For those of you not familiar with Turkey Hill, it is a very popular dairy in PA.  They are known for their ice creams and iced teas.  The most favorite part of the tour was the free ice cream and tea samples - all you wanted!  Yes, we got back in line a few times in between the activities.

Of course, you have to try your hand at milking a cow!

And driving the delivery truck. 

And standing in the ice cream container while sampling the goods. 

When we were leaving, we stumbled across this place:

Very pretty glass!  I was good and didn't buy anything, but can see visiting here again.

I snapped these pictures on the way home.  It was snowing just a bit, but not enough for the boys to use their new sleds yet!

We ended the day with our traditional pork, sauerkraut and dumplings for good luck in the new year.

I'm now ready to get back into a routine!

There was not a whole lot of stitching going on during Christmas break.  I started this before Christmas and only worked on it a little this past week.  It's the Humility Sampler by Heartstring Samplery.  So sweet!  I love the colors and the saying.

June from Butterfly Wings mentioned a few weeks back that she wanted to try and stitch an ornament a month during 2012.  I wanted to do this as well, so we decided that during the first week of every month, we will post a picture of the ornament we will be stitching.  And during the last week, we will post our finish.  The finish could be either just the stitched finish or the completed ornament.  If anyone else would like to play along, feel free!

I went through some of my stash today and found this one.

It's a Jenny Bean ornament from Shakespeare's Peddler.  I pulled the DMC colors and converted them to my own choices of Gentle Arts Sampler Threads.  I hope to start stitching this one either tonight or tomorrow night.  You can pop on over to June's blog to see what ornament she chose.

Thanks as always for stopping by.  I really appreciate reading all of your comments!