A couple of my favorite Christmas gifts this year.
I'm so thankful for everything I received this Christmas and I'm feeling very blessed. I am also very grateful to have had my loved ones put some extra thought into my surprises. My daughters both spoiled me with many nice gifts, and I had a couple of favorites I wanted to share. I especially loved a gift from my oldest Daughter and her husband, a family photo collage. I love it, and I must admit it made me cry when I saw it, happy tears of course. It's really nice and I know they spent time on it for me.
I also especially loved a gift from our other Daughter, of a beautiful hand knitted scarf that she made for me, I know she spent time on it for me too and it is so perfectly me, I love it! Hubby gave me something very special that sparkles, and also a new laptop that I love and am enjoying everyday, and also sometimes into the wee hours of the morning such as right now{*yawn*}, as I type away on this blog post, but I really wanted to share this. My eye lids may be a bit heavy right now, but my smile is wide and my heart is full.
Family Photo Collage
So many great photos and they did such a great job on it. I love all the photos they chose to use.
Our parents placed beside us on the top row, my parents in the upper left corner and Hubby with his parents in the upper right corner (from a trip they took to Yosemite). I love that they also added a wedding photo of us, and included our beloved dog Jake (who was part of our family, and shared life with us for almost 14 yrs), and the rest of the photos of daughters, son-in-law and granddaughters, and a group photo in the center. The photos of our granddaughters sitting in leaves shaped into hearts (I love hearts!) are a couple of my favorite recent photos of them too. And the phrase just completes this. "Family memories are always close at heart."
Hand Knitted Scarf
This is a beautiful scarf.
This is an interesting and different type of yarn and knitting technique. (I'm hoping you can see the detail of it, maybe I should have photographed it on a white background?) She did a very fine job on this, and it's a one of kind made just for me! I love it and that it really is so perfectly me. Black and gold are two of my favorite colors and combinations. I love how it sparkles too. Its a big HUG around my neck from her each time I put it on!
Heartfelt Hugs & Smiles...
