Finally Finished a Project!!!

I am on a roll with these posts, so here's the last one for tonight (DesignStar is on and FoodNetwork Star comes on next). I am sooooo excited because I finally FINISHED a crochet project! It's a little blanket that I have been working on for Luke. I started it at the end of March and with a few minutes here and a few minutes there. It's finally done. For my first project with a new stitch, I think it looks pretty good. What do you think Auntie Leona? Now I hope it doesn't take me 3 more months to send it down there...hehehe!
This pic shows the stitching: It's a V-Stitch with a Picot edging...pretty impressive terminology, huh :-)

Rock Cats Baseball

Okay, I know I totally did this out of order, but this is the follow up to the earlier "Birthday Preview" post about what we did on the actual day of Emma's birthday (June 11). After we went strawberry picking and bowling, we went to the Rock Cats game. It's the Double A team for the Minnesota Twins. The kids love going in the "Fun Zone" where they have a bunch of inflatables. Aidan did the hitting one, while Emma went a few times on the slide. We also paid to have Emma's name announced over the loudspeaker at the end of the 5th inning. They also put it up on the big board. She was soooo surprised. It was nice and the money goes toward the Rock Cats foundation so that's a plus.

It wasn't too warm either, in the 80's...fabulously warm! And it was also Polish night, so there was a polka band before the game. That was cool. So I think that we made up for last couple of
years of not celebrating her birthday. She's good for at least 3 years...lol! It became kind of a birthday week celebration, too because Beau felt bad we didn't have a cake for her, so we got one the next day to have after dinner. Aidan had to stick his finger in it, of course :-)

Emma's Birthday Party

Hi All,
Here are some pics from Emma's birthday party that we had on the 14th of June. It was a Strawberry Shortcake theme, so we had personal strawberry shortcakes and strawberry cheesecake instead of cake. I kept going back and forth about canceling the party and postponing or changing it to an inside venue since the weather report said isolated thunderstorms. No good for a bounce house and water fun. But, it all worked out. I decided to move up the time of the party and the storm started just as the last guests were leaving...so awesome! I think everyone had a good time, which is always the goal :-)

Birthday Preview

Hi all,
I know that I have to catch up some stuff from the end of March til now, but I thought that while I was at the computer I would add a few pics from Emma's birthday today. It's about 4 p.m. and so far today we have gone strawberry picking, had lunch with a few of Emma's friends, and gone bowling (Emma won, too). We are leaving in about a half an hour to go to the Rock Cats baseball game where we hope to score some free stuff. More details to follow :-)