I can't believe Christmas has come and gone. This year has just flown by.
We had a lovely Christmas - two actually. One on Christmas at home with the rest of the day spent at my hubby's brother's house where there was lots of good food, great company and lots to drink. I never really had a drink of my own other than a glass of wine with dinner...but I did spend the day tasting everyone's microbrews with my favorite being Mad Elf from Troeg's a local brewery.
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Then on Saturday my parents were visiting from NC and we spent the day at our son and DIL's new house where we celebrated Christmas. It was a fun relaxing day spent in front of the fire. I knit lots of Christmas presents this year. My niece Lauren always requests handknits for Christmas. This year she asked for mittens - which of course I made along with a gathered scarf which turned out so pretty if I do say so myself...no pictures to show totally forgot. She is coming for a Rose Bowl party on Jan 1 - go PENN STATE - so maybe we'll get pictures then. My DIL is so fun to knit for - she received a felted bucket hat and matching mittens. The hat is still a little big so I will refelt it this weekend. But doesn't she look great in it? (See their dog Cody in the background of the picture? their new house has a big picture window and her curls up there in the deep window sill. He is not a small dog - he's part lab/part beagle but curls up in the window like he's a cat!)

I also knit my mother a wrap in Sterling and Silk - it was so pretty and again I didn't get a picture of it. I so want to make one for me. The yarn was a dream to knit with.
I also knit my two SIL's neckwarmers - I think they liked them - hard to tell...if not I'd love them back as I thought they turned out so pretty. I also knit my son's girlfriend a hat and mittens - well I finished the hat and one mitten so the hat will be gifted and the mittens will go back to college with him to give to her later. More on this present later.
Today is back to work - yuck! Actually it's not so bad because it's very quiet here - most people take off but since I'm fairly new here I don't have lots of time to use yet. Guess I should get back to work!