Last Friday my sister set up a "girls family lunch." It was so fun to see my cousin (in the picture with me) and to have lunch with my sister and two of my sister-in-laws.
I have such an awesome sister...Thanks cute girl for getting us all together. I think we all enjoyed an opportunity to dress up, get out of the house and enjoy each other. I can't wait until next month when we do this again.
I have been knitting some scarves lately. SM has been encouraging me to sell them since I love knitting them but I don't wear them very often. Finally I decided I'd see if they could sell.
I asked my sister if she'd be willing to see if any of her co-workers would be interested in buying a decorative scarf or two. So, she took them to work and sold three...yipee!
And so I am very motivated (by money now) to continue knitting scarves and seeing if my sister can sell a few more scarves. (Thanks to my cousin for being my scarf model).
SM and I spent the weekend in Austin Texas with our friends. We were able to be downtown at the State Capital of Texas. Wow! What a huge building!
Look at how tall that dome is...it made for lots of stairs but a place to put all the pictures of former govenors of the state of Texas.
Look at those cute girls sitting in the sun and enjoying the beautiful weather...and it was gorgeous weather. We were excited that the weather was so warm and inviting. Very different than the cold, snowy weather that we left.
I loved that the hinges of the doors in the capitol had this inscription and decoration.
This is where politicians tell the public about the decisions that have been made. I wanted to go up behind the microphone to make my own declarations but chickened out at the last moment.
This is a photo shot from three or floors above this atrium. I actually couldn't look over the edge and so SM had to take the picture. It just was too high for me to feel comfortable looking down.
And this last photo is looking up towards the dome. It was so ornate and beautiful and I'm so glad I was able to go see the Capitol of Texas and our wonderful friends.
We were lucky enough to be with our friends in Austin Texas for Halloween. In the above picture, the dog Phoebe is wearing her Halloween costume for a few seconds...it's a mullet for dogs. Below, check out the biker chick with her friend...me, and my costume is really scary. I'm the lady with the spider on my shoulder!
We had a great time with these friends. 
The Fall time has arrived and so has a lot of work. It's time to gather in all the harvest and do something with it. I had to take a picture from mom's deck to show the leaves changing. It took less than a week to have the leaves change colors. We haven't had the hard frost at our house that my mom has had at her house but look at the colors. Wonderful!
Peppers from Mom's garden before we cut them up to put in the hot sauce. We also cut up onions from her house and garlic that my grandmother grew. Just need some vinegar and salt added to all those yummy veggies and Ta-Da...hot sauce.
Yesterday we bottled it and canned it. Now it's in my food storage. Yum!
Last Friday I made some puppets out of felt with my sister-in-laws. My mother-in-law organized a service project for us to make...she was unable to attend since she was at work but we had so much fun with these puppets. This is not all the puppets we made but they show the different puppets that we made. We traced them, cut the, decorated them, and sewed them. Phew! It took most of the day but we are very excited to send these to an orphanage in Uganda. Hopefully they will also enjoy them as much as we did making them.
Earlier this month my friend N emailed and invited M and myself to her house for lunch. It had been many years since we'd all been able to be together and so we were very excited to get together. M brought her two daughters and N had her two youngest home with her and we had a great lunch.
I had to post a picture of this dresser. N painted this dresser herself. She has so much talent. I loved having the tour of her house and seeing her touch in every room. She is a very talented woman and amazing mother of five kiddos. I hope to see her one more time before we move out of the state.
N, thank you for such a wonderful afternoon. You are a very gracious host and I loved being able to catch up on our lives.