Houseguests and Creepy Things

No connection between the two :). Mike's dad and his wife came in on Thursday for a visit and left early early early this morning. We had a really nice visit and I know the kids wish they could have stayed longer. Friday we took them on a tour of the historic part of Fredericksburg. We didn't have enough time to see everything so will have to catch more of it next time. We had lunch had this really neat Irish Pub called The Blarney Stone and afterwards headed down to the Fudge Factory for dessert. Yummo. I love that candy shop. I know I've said this before, it reminds me of the candy store on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. While walking downtown, I saw my first policeman on a horse. I've been downtown tons of times and this is the first time I've seen one on a horse. Pretty neat. After we picked the kids up from school we went back down town again to this really neat place that was all decked out for Halloween. They wanted to take the kids to pick out pumpkins. I saw this place from the street last year and then again the other day but had never stopped in until then. They had the neatest Halloween displays set up. I really liked the little graveyard!

I had a pretty busy week. I spent a lot of it getting ready for our visitors but did skip out on Wednesday for a last minute trip to Richmond with my friend, Juli. She wanted to go shopping and I was happy to tag along since I hadn't really seen anything in Richmond yet. We went to a big outdoor mall called the Short Pump Town Center. We ate lunch at the Cheesecake Factory YUM! I highly recommend the Grilled Chicken Avocado Club. Before we left the mall we went back again to get some cheesecake to go. Yum again. I highly recommend the Pecan Caramel Turtle cheesecake. At least I think that's what it was called. I would've felt bad about eating it except the nice man behind the counter assured us that he sucked the calories out of it :).

I didn't do much stitching the past week but I did manage to get an ornament stitched out of the new JCS Christmas ornament issue. I stitched the Norwegian Reindeer from Scandinavian Stitches. I stitched him in Raspberry Parfait Sampler threads. He was a really quick stitch. It took me 3 evenings but I only had a bit of time each sitting. I'm hoping to start on a birthday gift tonight.