Crochet Me Crazy

Alison passed her driver's test yestereday! She's fully legal now. We did parent taught driver's ed...thank God that's over! LOL!

Love my sweet girl....I don't know how I deserved such a sweet daughter. I came home from work on Monday and she had cleaned the house for me...dusted, vacumed, unloaded the dishwasher.

I am in a crochet slump right now it seems. I have been working on a cabbage patch hat for weeks and I'm just not into it. Haven't finished it! I'm totally uninspired. I made several pairs of booties but those really require no inspiration to make. I had sent a pair of booties to my niece and she told me how much she loves them! She wears them everywhere because they stay on her feet and keep her feet warm. So I'll probably throw a couple more pairs of those in the mail to her. Good to have an actual baby experimentation & know they work so well and aren't just cute!

There are a couple of developments in life to record for myself here....I think I mentioned my son & his wife & boy were living with us. Well, they moved out of Saturday. That's a good thing. I'm glad we were able to help them for a little while. They are moving in the next few days to another town that's about 2 1/2 hours away.

The other news is that they had a sonogram yesterday and found out that the baby is a GIRL! Yup, I'm going to have a grand-daughter. The baby is due on July 2! Boy, does that feel weird to say! I guess I better start browsing my crochet patterns for stuff to make for baby girl! So much easier to crochet for a girl! This should get me out of my slump.....time to start browsing for blanket patterns! :)

So excited!!! We went to our 2nd Mounted Shooting Clinic on Sunday! Alison decided to bring her horse, Princess. She was really apprehensive about the whole thing. For one thing, Alison herself was nervous about the guns...then of course, you expect your horse to react if they haven't been gun broke. I told her to just do it and we'll see how it goes...she doesn't have to do anything she doesn't want to do and either way it's a good thing for both of them to be exposed to. They tell you how to work with your horse to get them used to the guns and then when they start shooting you start out with a 22 and gradually increase the callibers. (Keep in mind, you are only shooting non-lethal rounds) You lounge your horse and shoot in front of them at the ground...then in back....then finally you shoot leaning over the horses saddle. It was so exciting to see how AMAZING Alison and Princess did. The close relationship and trust Alison has with Princess really shined this day. I think everyone there was pretty shocked....Princess barely even flinched at the guns. Alison ended up shooting off the back of her horse and trotting the pattern shooting the balloons before the day was over. I think we're really going to try to do let Alison do this. The Shooter Club that was there were so great and helpful. They are motivated to try to help people get started in this sport in South Texas because there is very little of it here....most of the shoots are up near Dallas. I wish I could post the videos I took but my internet is too slow.

Everything and nothing at the same time. I've feels like I've been really busy but I'm not sure what I have been doing that is making me more busy than normal....We started back to the normal routine with dance and school this week. Alison is really sore trying to get back in shape in dance class after the break. I think I feel so disorganized and busy because I'm a creature of habit and structure and that is upset right now because my son and his family are living with us right now. Throws our normal routine off a bit.

I am working on a couple of crocheted projects but it's slow going. Maybe I'll get some picture up soon if I can ever get a completed project!

Tomorrow, we are heading to Uvalde for the day with Alison and her horse for a mounted shooting horseback clinic. We've been to one before but we are taking Alison's horse this time. It'll be good for both of them.

We just finished up 2 days of Stock Show yesterday. It's so worth it but I'm always glad when it's over! Alison showed Princess and a goat. We are so happy for Alison because she won Showmanship in the Senior Horse Division. She knows Princess won't win Grand Champion but her goal every year is to win Showmanship -- and this year she did it! She gets a belt buckle and a $200 scholarship to the local Junior college.




Her goat didn't place but she got $800 for the goat in the sale on Friday! Definately worth the trouble! Woo-hoo! Congratulations Alison!

We just got back from a 4 day trip to Louisiana -- 2 of which we spent driving. Glad we made the trip to see Jeff's parents and his granmother but I'm glad to be home and sleeping in my own bed. It was a very long drive! They have a nice little house on a lake. Alison and I took a little walk to the lake one afternoon.



I'm glad to be home sleeping in my own bed!

Today, I'm unpacking and we're going to start getting the Christmas stuff packed up.