On our way home for the Christmas cruise, we stopped at Lelia’s house for a visit and some gift-giving! It was so much fun to see her after what felt like forever (a.k.a. six days since she moved out…)

I had been working on Lelia’s surprise Christmas present for what seemed like an eternity. “Toothless” (from “How to Train Your Dragon”) was the hardest thing I have ever sewn (part of the difficulty was attributed to the ambiguity of the instructions…), and it was totally worth it in the end! Lelia was so excited about it, and I had a lot of self-satisfaction just looking at it and thinking, “Hey! I made that cool dragon!”

Before Lelia had gone home, she had a brilliant idea for a gift for Michael. We went in half and half on it, and it was awesome seeing his surprise when he opened it.

We still need to go get it inflated it and try it out! That is a lot of fun just waiting to happen!

Lelia spoiled me too, but this gift has to be my favorite because she and her mom came up with it AND created it!

A camo hat that says “HARDCORE” on the back! That’s probably my favorite/most frequently used word… In fact, if you looked it up in the dictionary, my picture should be next to it, because I am the definition of HARDCORE!