After Christmas Open House Catch Up!

Well the Holiday Open house was a huge success by everyone involved.  Lots of people came to enjoy all the fabulous creations and made all our hard work worth while!  So Thanks to all who visited Memory Bound the past couple of days! 

While I was busy with Christmas projects, Life continued all around me --so I thought I would catch you up on some of it via pictures posted or sent to me  by my kids!  The first event was a Trout stocking event at a local lake the day after Nicholas's BD party.  I think I have mentioned previously, he got a new fly fishing reel for his BD (which he has wanted for awhile), so this event  fell at the perfet time!

The pictures are a a little out of order, but you'll get the idea.  Nicholas ended up getting his limit of 5 after they watched the DNR stock the lake.  He got one tagged one, which meant he won a prize!  --another rod and reel and some homemade flys (Nicholas now makes his own flys, so these were of special interest to him!) 

These pictures show his catches of the day, a very good meal to come! 

This is one of those out of order pics---this was the kids waiting for the DNR to come and stock the lake---some 200 people showed up!

And the best part is a local reporter was there writing an article and the next weekend there was the article, complete with this picture (below) of Nicholas and one of his Trout!  The article was all about the benefits of fishing for kids (and adults, too) and was a great article!  Thanks to Garry Brandenburg for another terrific article! 

The other big news is, of course, Hurricaine Sandy out East.  Though it didn't affect us directly here in Iowa, it did affect us directly!  Confused---well a lot of  people from Iowa have gone East to help out--the Red Cross, Humane society, etc.--but also a lot of power Linemen!  and one of those is our son, Troy.  I loved this little bit of humor (in a not so humorous sitution) that he posted one day . 

He is in the Caskill mountains (hope I spelled that correctly) putting lines up and has sent back via FB some pics of the region and of them working.  In a couple of days they will be heading into the city to help! 

 Tho much of this region is very pretty, it too has been hit hard.  The guys work long hours with little sleep, could be there a month or more --away form home and family and at times (most of the time, I think up in the mountains), sleep in tents when they do sleep!  Troy says the people in the mountains are very appreciative of their efforts! (I should hope so!)

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 These pictures just plain make me dizzy.  He does not get his ability to do Heights from me!  All I can say is stay safe you guys--and hurry home--we miss you!

And the last thing that came and went was Halloween!  I have a few pictures of our little ghosts and goblins, but haven't seen  all of them yet!  I felt really bad, since we never really have any trick or treaters out here in the country, so I never  have any "treats" on hand-----actually, I usually don't even know when T or T night is---so when Callie showed up at our door, I didn't have ANYTHING to give her!  I'm sure I can make it up to her--she said she was just here to show us her costume--she is such a little doll!

I didn't get to see Cloey in person (she was out with a group of her friends Trick or Treating), but here is a pic of them both!

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I also got a couple of pics of Nicholas and Aiden creating their Jack-o-laterns!

and as you can see, they were very creative!  What fun!

They looked great all lit up! 

Oh, to be young again and enjoy the simplest of pleasures!

So this was my Catch-up Sunday!  Hope everyone has a great week--mine will be very busy as I have 2 classes coming up next weekend and LOTS of prep work and kit work yet to be done.  It will all be fun and good tho!  Remember--your life is beautiful---take pictures and Scrapbook it!