Odds and Ends

I am beginning to think that Wednesdays are my odds and ends days. Last week we were busy and lots was going on. ( One day I am going to write a post that says, I was bored all week.)  On Friday night, what was supposed to be just a quiet party with my son's friends turned into a going away party for another friend. I was glad that Ruthie brought another cake. She made this and since normally Friday night is game night, she did a cake from the game Catan.

She did such a nice job with it.

When our youngest son, Peter graduated a few weeks ago, Our oldest son, Ben made him a present. I was so impressed with it that I decided to show it here.

He made a knife.

 The leather pouch it is in came from a pair of old work boots that he cut up and used. The leather is so soft and pliable.

That handle is made of cherry wood. Ron took out a old cherry tree and gave the wood to Ben. He took it and polished it and made this beautiful handle out of it.

See the knife part, he used an old file that he had to make the blade. The black part is still the file. You can't tell it unless you were looking at it real close.

There that is better, the workmanship is incredible. Peter is so proud of it and keeps it on his desk.

The other day, I was outside looking at Ron's junk pile and he had a bunch of boards cut up and I told him if he just cut me a couple of small ones I could make this flag. ( The pattern is on Brown Paper packages) He did so I painted it yesterday. I made a bunch of these last year but I gave them all away. So yesterday I just made one for me. It is the middle of June and I haven't decorated at all in red, white and blue.

I got the rest of the wedding photos yesterday. It is really hard to decide which are my favorites but I thought I would show you these.

All of our grand children with Auntie Em's. It had been too long of a week at this point. Tired babies.

I loved this one just because it shows the real Em's, always worrying about everyone else. This is our seven
babies and one more to be born in December. Our oldest daughter will add one more to her brood which will make it an even 8 I am so blessed. The four boys are are Ben and Megan's and the two girls and boy are  Kessie and Ryan's.

This is the whole bunch of our kids. You can't even tell that Kessie is pregnant. We were worried about the dress but it fit just fine.

Then all of us. Seeing this I have been outgrown. Oh here is a stock tip, buy some Weight Watcher stock, it is getting ready to go up because of the dues I will be paying.

It was a good day. It is nice to look at the pictures. We couldn't have done as much as we did without any of them working like they did. The only tired looking ones are Ron and I. I love my family.

So here are my odds and ends of Wednesday.
Thank you for coming along. What a year it has been.

~Kim~