Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knitting. Show all posts

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Knitting, Waiting and more


MT Rushmore in SD

Little Dom @ the beach, hes a crawler now!


Panning for gold in SD



Summer is winding down here and the weather has gotten a little bit more tolerable, just a little. Today the humidity and heat reminded us that summer is not over quite yet.  School shopping is upon us for our 2 oldest and an exciting new school year is only 10 days away. Romeo will begin 7th grade this year and  will be going to a new school. I am excited for him and just hoping the transition is smooth. I know some good friends of his will be going to the school he chose as well, so that should make it easier.

SD

Gabriel sitting with the goat @ The farm in SD
What a busy and fun summer we have had. We took a trip to South Dakota in July for a family reunion, visited many parks, pools and beaches. The older children spent some days with grandma, and we did so many other fun things. I personally am pretty content to be home these days, but not my children, they love being busy doing things and being around extended family and friends.

Just hanging around with Uncle Dan


Over the summer I have been working on my knitting, teaching myself more and trying more difficult projects. I knitted my first project in the round, a cowl for myself and it turned out ok I guess, but I think either I knitted it a bit to loose or perhaps used the wrong yarn fiber. I also decided I would knit all my children something for their upcoming birthdays. I just finished Dominique's. I made him 2 different balls.  I made a few mistakes but overall they look ok. Now on to the next 3 projects. Hope I can get them all done in time, we'll see.

These past few weeks have been filled with some stress, excitement, hope, and prayers. We are waiting on finding out if our plans to move will happen. After being in this house for 8 years we have more than outgrown not only the house itself but also the neighborhood. Everything is in place and now whether we can house hunt or not is just a phone call away. Say some prayers for us please. Our family really needs this change.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Bad Blogger

When It comes to blogging, I am terrible at it. I honestly would rather write in my journal or Facebook. Its so much less time consuming to just update your status about your life in a nutshell or pour out your heart to a piece of paper that wont ever be able to judge you. I also would rather pick up the phone and talk to someone personally. I do like blogging though because its a place to keep memories, something i am big on.

This Thursday I will be 15 weeks along in my pregnancy and that is also the day we find out more about how the baby is doing, I can't wait. We did get the blood results back from Prob and it turns out he does have the antigen that my body is making antibodies to so that is scary because the baby probably does too. We'll know more Thursday and I'll try to remember to post a blog.

Here are some pictures to catch you up on whats been going on around here.

Our trip to Duluth-Gabriel was so afraid of the waterpark and snuggled me the whole time, I didn't mind that part. The older children had a blast and some very nice people we didn't even know paid for our meal the first day we were there. Thank You whoever you are!We walked the boardwalk on Lake Superior, it was beautiful and the kids loved it!













Gabriel's first time playing outside in the trampoline, he loves outside

Romeo teaching Gabe how to play guns, he seemed to like it to, go figure, all boy already!
Gabriel's first time at the park, he was so happy!

My first knit project, Romeo got me into trying to learn. I am currently working on booties originally for Gabe but I finished the first one and it is too small for him so I guess they'll be for the new baby. The first bootie looks great though.






At the Cambodian temple for the New Year, our first time going since I met my husband, good experience for the children and I also liked it even though it was yucky out.






Gabe just had his first sickness, took him to the Dr and he had an ear infection and a terrible cold, antibiotics are helping him recover. He got to sleep with Mommy and Daddy for 4 nights.

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Our very neat Easter eggs that we dyed with Men's silk ties from an idea we got from a thrift store, so cool. Check out the recipe below and give it a try!




My First Easter

Our friends Florence and Eleanor

HAPPY EASTER!



Uncle Dan ( who is going skydiving next week) and the boys
Daddy and Gabe at our trip to Linder's to check out the beautiful flowers I can't wait to buy and plant!
Also, to anyone who I am friends with on Facebook, alot of my friends got deleted by accident and whoever I noticed I re added but please check and see if I overlooked you and re add me ( if u want lol)! Have a great rest of the week (: