April 27-28, 2013 Weekend, 2 Baby Showers, 2 Crocheted Puppy Hats, 2 Big Crochet Baskets, and a Lazy Sunday

On Saturday, Mom, Jackie, and I went to my Brother Terry’s son and daughter-in-law’s baby shower. Jessica is the beautiful Mom to be and I couldn’t go without having each of us photographed with her. Jessica and Zach are going to be wonderful parents.

Here’s Sarah with 2 of her brothers; Zach and Keegan. Jake had not arrived with the two little ones yet.

It was good to see Dean’s oldest daughter Shannon and her little boy Joseph. They were trying to guess how much change had been donated in the glass jar. By the way Shannon was the closest and won that game.

Here’s my lovely sister-in-law Cathy with Jackie. Cathy is a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, and sister-in-law. I love her more every day.

Of course I always try to gather my family together for a photo when we are together. I loved this one of us three.

Sarah and Terry always take a lovely father and daughter picture together.

Here was the view outside across the fence from the church where the baby shower was taking place. It was a cloudy cool day all day long. I’m sure the church yard has had a cow or two in it before. 😉

Then Jake arrived and my Mom saw them coming so she met them at the door to hold my youngest great niece; Charlie, (I love how Mom’s face lights up when a baby is in her arms)

and her big sister Lily. It’s so cute you ask Lily to turn around and say cheese for the picture and she does so, then you better work quickly to take a photo because she is just too busy to stick around long. Lily is pictured here with her sweet Momma Kim (who put on a wonderful baby shower for her sister-in-law).

I also decided to give Charlie the little hat that I made from the Sweet Elegance Cloche pattern designed by Elizabeth Alan of Lovely Crow designs, along with the braided sandals to match. I loved the little hat on her and the fun thing about it was that she left it on.  🙂

At first Charlie did not want to go to anyone except her Papa Kingery. Terry is such a loving man and if there is a baby in the house you can almost bet that he will have it in his arms. 😉

Jake and Sarah always take a good picture together too. I love the way all of Terry’s children treat each other. They all are just a very loving family.

You can see from these photos that Sarah could hardly stand it,

she wanted to hold Charlie so bad and was willing to sit and wait until Charlie made up her mind to come to her. As you can see her patience paid off.  🙂

Of course there were games played at the shower and one of them that was my favorite was cloth diapering a baby doll with real diaper pins. I was one of the winners from the first round.

Terry, my Mom, Zach, Jessica, Cathy, Sarah, me, and a few others joined in on the fun. I got a kick out of how Zach diapered his baby for the second round of diapering. He made a cape out of the diaper and said that super babies didn’t poop so they only need a cape.  🙂 🙂

It looks like Zach was rewarded with his patience to hold Charlie also. Sometimes it’s rather hard to keep up with all the activities going on in a group this size, I’m so glad that I captured this moment in time.  😉

Jessica and Zach loved the gifts that I gave them for the baby.

They also loved the quilt that my Mom pieced and hand quilted.

Jessica loved the Market to Market bag that Jackie made for her too. Just click on Market to Market link and you will find Jackie’s patterns which are available for purchase and downloadable from her website at www.jackieclarkdesigns.com.

I loved the look on her face when she opened someone’s’ gift of the book, “Love you Forever.” Priceless!

I couldn’t resist having my picture taken with Charlie and the crocheted puppy hat that I gave to baby boy-to-be,

this little girl guest was kind enough to pose with my newest crocheted girl puppy hat. Don’t you love the pink heart patch around the eye of the puppy?

As I was driving the winding, curvy steep hills back to Madison, Kansas I asked Jackie to take a picture of this cool aqua and red brick house. It was just too pretty not to.

Then we stopped to take pictures of the goat and sheep farm.

When I got home I finally put 2 and 2 together and figured out that that’s where the cute little soap prizes must have came from at Jessica’s baby shower. I am going to have to check out their website and order some of that soap. I have emailed the owner to see where I can purchase her soaps. I’ll let you all know when I find out.

After Jackie and I dropped Mom off at her house we hurriedly headed to the second baby shower for our dear friend Stephanie’s

daughter Lauren. She loved the tiny crocheted puppy hat that I made for her baby. I loved her comment of, “o-h-h I can’t wait to take a naked baby picture of Colton in this hat.” You can go here to see what she’s talking about.

Lauren also loved the Market to Market bag that Jackie made for her. Her comment here was, “did you make this?” Then she answered herself by saying, “that was a stupid question.”  🙂 Great news; I found out on Sunday that Lauren gave birth to her baby boy Colton at 1:02 a.m. What a busy day Lauren and her family had.

Sunday was a laid back day. I just had to share this note that John left me on

this can of Men’s Health Nut-rition. I thought it was quite funny.

I managed to finish up this Big Crochet Basket, made with Deborah Norville’s Everyday yarn, and made from the Big Crochet Basket pattern designed by Petra at ZoomYummy. I had to make it a little smaller than the pattern because I started running out of yarn. I like it ok but the yarn is so soft that the bag isn’t quite stiff enough and the pattern of the basket weave stitch doesn’t show up as well as if I would have used a plain color.

So I decided to make another one with Bernat Super Saver and

I love the way this one turned out, plus I have quite a bit of yarn left over to make Amagurumi animals out of it or something that doesn’t need to be soft, because the yarn is fairly coarse. I feel very blessed to have had such a full weekend spent with family and friends. So what did you guys do this last weekend? I would love to hear all about it.