Midland: Icing on the cake

Hello everyone, let me start be saying...the ride up to Ft. Davis was truly icing on the cake for me! While pregnant with Jonas I received several as in about 20 crochet blankets!! I think they are all beautiful and since then learning to crochet has always been in the back of my mind. I once tried to crochet as a young child with my grandmother...but never did anything about it or showed interest again. Well, one of the sisters in our car group is an expert at crocheting!! Of course I jumped on the opportunity to learn on our drive up to Ft. Davis. We made a stop at walmart  to pick up some yarn and a hook. I'm not gonna lie...I had a really shaky start and never got the full hang of it. On the way home I was totally surprised that Rhonda decided to gift me with the beautiful scarf she made on our trip!! Wow, I could not love it more! It was so sweet of her to let me keep it! When I returned home...Rhonda sent me a link to a teacher on you tube and I gave it a try...I finally found a stitch I was half decent at and started my scarf it's not completed, but it's almost done. I guess I can check this off my list...next check is going to be the guitar! I've already stared looking at all kinds of videos and we stopped by a music store to look at the guitars! 

My first few stitches 

I never finished this one with a tighter stitch 

This one was the one Rhonda made for me!

This is the one I'm almost done with.

My gear

Midland: Ft. Davis trip

While we were visiting my aunt in Midland, a couple of days out of the trip we took off to Ft. Davis for a little camping....well, maybe some of us camped and the others stayed in a nice warm lodge up the road! In this case I was part of the others. We left on Friday and returned on Sunday. Jonas had a blast as usual...he's our little out door guy! Some friends that attend the congregation in Midland also came. It was so much fun and we are really happy to have spent some time with new friends! The trip was surly something we will always remember because of the great company as well as a couple of hiccups...lets just say between the javelinas and the thunderous snoring...we have some stories to tell!

Breakfast before we left to Ft. Davis

Observational spot 

Forty cows inside.

unloading the cars...to set up camp

Restaurant at the lodge 

Our lodge

100 year old hotel

inside a local store

The gang in the back of my uncles truck

Our Lodge from up high

Huge spider right outside the place we stayed....not cool!  

The famous camp site that got invaded by pigs!

Ryan's foot...out of the hole the javelina made

The group minus me....somebody's got to take the pictures.