What a treat and bye for a few weeks....

Ok, so if you are a country music fan, YEP that is her..... If you are not, this is Jo Dee Messina and I. I was so very blessed to have been given the opportunity to meet her but that wasn't even the real blessing.... more to follow. A few dear friends were able to have a guest when they were invited to meet her and invited me to join them. I jumped like a school girl! I have loved her music for years and hey, she is representing the red heads out there! :) Anyways, she was so nice and down to earth. Jo Dee had come here to perform a free concert for Fort Drum and most of the people that were backstage to meet her were families of soldiers that had been injured while serving. I had the opportunity to talk with a few of them and what a blessing! These families truly have sacrificed and are true heroes! Even living here on Fort Drum I am sheltered from some of what I realized to be true that day and I will surely not forget it!

My family is headed out on a vacation for the next few weeks so I will be missing from my blog and will surely miss visiting all of yours but have a blessed next few weeks and I will blog with all of you soon! = )

Baby Blanket Auction......

Hello everyone! I hope that you all had a great weekend! My family enjoyed the beautiful weather this past weekend with some sunshine and showers to keep it cool and comfortable. ;)

In my fun however, I had forgotten to give the baby blanket featured on my previous post to my friend who was running the auction at our church to raise money for some youth in our church that are going on summer missions. So, after apologizing profusely I decided that I would go ahead and sell it anyways and give the proceeds to them. Here is a picture again. Please, please, post a link on your blogs in order to help raise money for the teens in our church that are headed out to World Changers this summer.

For those of you who don't know about World Changers, it is an amazing ministry! Hundreds of youth from around the country gather in different cities and learn how to work on houses doing things such as painting, putting on siding, repair work, and even building garages and additions. They work on peoples homes who are unable to do so whether financially or physically and use this as an opportunity to witness to them as well. What a wonderful opportunity for teens to truly learn about service and humility while serving as a witness to God. These teens pay to go help out other families for a week. You definitely don't see this on the news! If you are able, please show your support to the youth of our church and bid on this baby blanket. I will give all of the proceeds to their World Changers Fund. We will just keep a running bid going on the posting. If you are interested, just post a comment and put your bid in the comment section of this posting. I will get the mailing information from the highest bidder. If you are unable to or are not interested in bidding you can still help out by posting a link on your blog. :) Thanks for your support everyone! It is definitely for a good cause!

Here is a link to the World Changers website for you to read more about thier mission and see where they will be this summer. There are also pictures for you to look at to see what these youth do! http://www.world-changers.net/site/c.jjJVJ6MNIwE/b.4117239/k.6C6F/What_is_World_Changers.htm

The auction will close on Friday June 19th at 10am Eastern Time. Again, anyone reading this, please post a link to this auction on your site. :) Let's raise some money for some teens trying to make a difference in the world!

Finished project ....

I have been very busy at work on this project for the past few weeks. I was inspired to start it by a heart pattern I had seen in one of my baby afghan pattern books. As usual it is practically impossible for me to adhere to the pattern. :) I don't know why but I tend to shift patterns to whatever it is that I have in mind for the project. This particular piece is for a craft auction in order to help the youth in our church raise money for a trip with World Changers next month. While I was working on it I decided that I would start naming my pieces. As you can see in the small tag in the bottom picture I have named this one "Snuggly Sorbet". I hope that this afghan will be a cuddly addition to some sweet baby's crib or car seat. What projects are you working on right now?

Family visits....

Hello everyone! I hope this finds you all prepared for a great weekend! A few weeks ago we took a trip out to Pennsylvania to visit my Grandparents and I thought I would share a few of the pictures I took with all of you. I just love the country view. I always appreciate the peacefulness of the countryside when I am visiting them. The sky was a beautiful shade a blue, the trees were brilliant shades of green and the lawn was plush and freshly mowed by Haali and Mitchell. I have included a few pictures of them below as well. They are growing so quickly! They used Grandpa's riding mower to cut the grass (and there is ALOT of it!). Even my little Mitchell.... when did they grow up? Do you see the other update? Yep, that blonde dog is sweet little Jack. Remember when he was smaller than Jazzy? Not anymore! He is quite large but so well behaved! We love him very much! Last weekend my Grandma Nancy (KnittingPathsofLife) and Grampa George came out and silly me didn't take any pictures! UGH!!! I don't know what I was thinking. Oh wait, I do have one....... LOL! Yep there were three people and three laptops! :) Oh my, the age of technology! :) Have a great weekend everyone!

Thank you and a new stage of life....

As all of us know, our lives are filled with changes and our family is approaching one of those times in our life as well. I will finish my bachelor's degree in Human Resource Management in September and will be looking for a job in the near future. Because of this I have stepped down from my Craft Coordinator position in MOPS. I have truly been blessed with the many amazing women that I have had the opportunity to get to know better in the past two years. I have posted many of my MOPS crafts here on my blog and will continue to post crafts that I design but just wanted to take a few minutes to thank all of our New Hope MOPS Moms for allowing me to teach the crafts for the past few years. It has been wonderful! On a separate note completely I am looking forward to tomorrow as several ladies from church are meeting and driving down to a Hobby Lobby that has recently opened about an hour from us and then having lunch out. That will be loads of fun and I can't wait! :) Have a great week everyone!!