a few extra days!

i guess the path of the traveling afghan has changed directions! i was all ready to ship it off early to texas... when i got this email from cj... don't ship, sky diving plans were canceled(the afghan was going to jump out of a plain!) so we are able to enjoy it's company for a few more days. i was so happy with the news because i was able to share the story of the afghan and where its been with my grandma minten.

she loved it, she was amazed by the pictures, stories, and families in the journal. she was so impressed by cj for coming up with this wonderful idea she was shocked when i told her that cj and her little girl were in our play group... that i actually know this out of the box thinker:) she just kept say after every page she read...for example "oh sara, look sacramento, california... the villacres family, what a beautiful child" and "what a wonderful thing to be a part of!"
after she read what i wrote for my page in the journal, she said something that she had shared with me before (when someone gave her a copy of what i wrote about her on my blog for her last birthday). she told me how she thought i had a way with words. that meant so much to me the first time she said it and it means so much to me now.

i always had a difficult time growing up in school, like max will be experiencing, i too was in the "special classes" i have a difficult time in comprehending what i read, and so my spell is horrible(God bless spell check!). so to hear people who know what i have struggled with my whole life tell me that,... to me it means i am overcoming that small but in a way, huge battle for myself:)
i am so glad i was able to share this with my grandma.

we are sad to see it go.

today is our last day with The T21 Traveling Afghan:( last night we went over to log home studio and had some beautiful pictures taken, she was nice enough to edit them while we waited so i could get a copy to send with the journal. here are two of my favorites!

i have to say this whole time waiting to be a part of this wonderful project, the biggest thing i wanted to see was what the other families wrote and shared about their experiences with the afghan. i thought i would share my page with all of you. (you should be able to click on the picture to make it larger.)

a few more pictures.

a few pictures of max with the T21 traveling afghan!

saturday night.

he thought he was so funny.

lilly and max with the afghan on the couch watching sunday morning cartoons:)
that's my happy little boy:)

it's our turn!

it's here it's finally here!!! we signed up for the T21 traveling afghan project when max was 4 months old. we so very excited to be a part of it! this morning at our monthly play date with our other Ds families our friend lilja gave max the afghan! here are a few of the pictures from today.

so sweet, now only if max would kiss lilja back.

almost max, it was so cute:)
thank you for the kisses and the afghan lilja:)
we had a huge group together this morning, we were going to try to get a picture with just the kids and the afghan but realized they were all to small to listen and just sit for the picture. plus we had three new families there today and one of them was with a 8 day old baby girl! what a great group of kids, i feel so lucky to have them and their families in our life.

we also celebrated ruby and logan's third birthdays (they are not twins... just great friends).

max and lilly in the back seat of the car, on the way to target. max was pooped from seeing all of his friends today (oh, he is feeling much, much better. the meds must be working!).

aunt val, and max sitting on his very soon to be little cousin.

cousin jake giving max one of his many hugs for the day:)

cousin wilson opening his birthday presents... his is turning 4!

lilly watching wilson open his gifts.

lilly and max both love wilson little chair:)

we had such an exciting day, starting with the T21 traveling afghan, meeting and making new life long friends, and celebrating there wonderful kids birthdays:) what a great, great day.