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Giving Thanks

I hope you all had a wonderful, peaceful and joyful Thanksgiving! We had such a lovely few days, filled with family and lots of food! I cooked for three days straight. Each year I get closer and closer to ironing out my recipes. This years new and biggest hit was this Sweet Potato Casserole. Oh my gosh, SO delicious and definitely a keeper! We're slowly whittling away at the leftovers but I still have lots and lots of cheesecake, chocolate cake and pecan pie left though. Who's coming over?! You can find me right here, indulging in the goodies mentioned above, perhaps a little too often ;) 

why get one when you can have two at twice the price

 

 

Well, there they are! Our two boys! We got to the farm to pick out our Alpaca and, well, these two guys just seemed like they shouldn't be separated. So, against all rationality (that's when we know we are making the right decision) we decided to bring home two Alpaca!

Greg is still working on their shelter so we'll pick them up sometime next week. We learned a great deal today about Alpaca. The owner of the farm, Kevin, is so nice and gave us a crash course in haltering, worming, feeding, care, trimming their hooves and of course, shearing! These boys are yearlings so we will shear them for the first time this coming Spring. Baby Alpaca Baby! They had such a beautiful herd, the full spectrum of the Alpaca rainbow. These two boys also came with a stern warning that Alpaca are highly addictive! After seeing all the variation in personality and color I can certainly agree. Look! Already we came home with one more than we expected! But they are herd animals so it was the right thing to do :)

We also got to see the babies on the farm! They had two Cria there. Both male, both absolutely adorable, both already sold. (Thank goodness!)

Needless to say we are all SO excited about welcoming the new furry members of our family home. I really can't wait!

FO: Miner the Cave Bat

 

Well, I didn't jut mean to drop off the face of the earth like that. Sorry. I meant to dazzle you with finished pictures of Ishbel but things got really busy over here in the best possible way. Two birthdays in three days means a lot of preparation, fun and of course, birthday cake! I turned 32 on the 13th and Jorn turned 7 on the 16th. We both got incredible surprises. I also managed to knit up this little cutie on the eve of Jorn's birth because he is really into bats right now. He loves him! He was promptly named Miner since bats live in caves and people mine in caves (Jorn's explanation). I have knit other softies before but none have been so well received. I mean really...what little boy could resist a bat?! Project details over on Ravelry.

Jorn also got two lizards of his very own to care for, Lego and Small, two darling little Anoles. He is on Cloud 9. And the critter count is really going up here. You won't believe what my birthday surprise was? Are you ready? An ALPACA! We haven't picked him up yet but hopefully will be able to later in the week. I am sure there aren't very many husbands that surprise their wives with livestock but I sure do love my livestock giving man. We just have a few small details to work out here, like building a shelter, finding a horse trailer to borrow, getting all the things that alpacas need (what do they need?) and you know just learning about alpacas. We never do anything the 'traditional way' around here and that's just the way I like it ;)

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Vaughn and I just wanted to pop in and say "hi" while I am busy blocking and finishing off one of my favorite projects ever!

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