Happy Thanksgiving!

After the Fact.........Sorry I've been gone from the blog...today is really12/9/08.......Blessing to All. All in All I have to say it was a good Thanksgiving. Thankful that I was with both my children and my granddaughter,Lil Orchid. My son was able to work his schedule from Grad School and his job to drive home for a few days. Had to leave on Thanksgiving to be back for work on Black Friday. Thankful that I got to share it with my Mom and Stepdad (YeYe). Thankful that we could let her rest, and Thankful that my stepdad who had collasped in the store the previous week (rushed to IC for a stroke) was here with us, even if he sleeped most of the visit. Turned out it wasn't a stroke but he was hit with a bad viris that attacked his nervous system (he has already had multiple heart surgeries). So we are Blessed.

Lil Orchid is wearing a cap made by my Mom when my daughter was in kindergarten, Thanksgiving 1981 (vintage wear) it is still very big on her but she looked so cute just like her mom mom.!

She's A WINNER ! THANKS !!

Yesterday was a day to Vote in more than one way.
For us Americans, it was a New President.
It's was all about her Future!


But for Lil Orchid
she needed every Vote
that you gave her.
SHE WON !!

So THANKS to all our Family and Friends,
for our Friends of Friends,
for our Yahoo Groups and
for all Uncle Nathan's Friends,
and of course...
Lil Orchids and Mam Maw's Blog Friends !!

It was Scary and Close watching the last hours.
At 7pm they both had 398, by 8pm it was Peep 414 & Cowboy 410, 8:17 Peep 420 & Cowboy 416 then 8:34 Cowboy 424 & Peep 423, then 9:30 Peep 435 and Cowboy 432, by 10 pm Cowboy 443 and Peep 441, at 11pm they were both at 450 .....then the final results.

Little Bo Peep (42%, 461 Votes)
Cowboy (42%, 455 Votes)
Two Thugs (9%, 94 Votes)
Sigfried and Roy (8%, 86 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,096

This is the comments on the Voting Blog regarding the results....
And speaking of election results, Little Bo Peep is our Chicco Trevi Twin stroller winner - check out the poll on the left sidebar!! Congrats! Adorable Christopher the Cowboy gave her a run for her money all the way down to midnight last night (I know that because I had to stay up until then to close the poll on the exact hour since it was such a close race;). Thank you to all who participated in our photo contest and the voting process. It was fun!

Congrats to ALL four finalists.
THANKS AGAIN
EVERYONE EVERYWHERE
THAT HELPED US WIN !!!!

Sunday, Sunny and Mowing Grass ?

Sorry not much sewing being done. The weather gave us a second chance at working outside before the weather turns terrible. Yes, can you believe it in the 70's ?!?!?!

Extra work needed to be done...someone is stealing our firewood from the back of the property, so we are moving it closer to the house. We worked to hard chopping and stacking that wood. And it has memories, some of it is from the tree that fell through the roof during the ice strom.
We have big plans for it... keeping us warm this year. lol

Vote for Lil Bo Peep !

My Lil Orchid is a finalist in a Halloween Photo Contest
and we need your VOTE!!

Please follow this link
http://www.goodhappenings.com/?page_id=487 ,
at the bottom of the 4 photos is a poll,
please VOTE for LITTLE BO PEEP.

THANKS ALL and Please pass this around to your friends
so they can Vote for her too!!!
You can only vote once, it goes by your IP address

The voting ends on Nov 4th......
if she wins, we get a double stroller perfect for when her little sister comes home:)

Lets make Handmade & Homemade Count !!