a quick update

Things here are going crazy per usual. The car is broken once again. Once again we are going to fix it. We have had a very busy fall. Things are going so fast. I am hoping to get up halloween pics in the next couple of days Jesse was a Ninja and I was a Pirate. We had fun went trick-or-treating at the mall. Went around to a few houses. Hope everyone else had a happy and safe halloween.

a total rant

Some completly undesierable person decided to be ever so kind last night and back into my car in the parking lot doing a fare amount of body damage to my car and just drove off isn't it nice to know you have good neighbors.... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

knitting updates...

so i have decided in order to not make myself crazy that i am going to just post all knitting updates and related posts to my ravelry site however anything non knitting yet craftiness related will go up here so fear not... xmas is coming and my drift wood picture frames should be coming soon....

Jesse and Chase got Baptized

My big boy getting ready for church to start...
Chase my chubba bubba i love this kid he makes me smile...
CHEESE!!!!!
Nate, Jesse, Chase and Angela so glad our friends could come and be there with us for the day...
Everyone durring the ceremony There are some more people hidden behind us too (whats with the weird spot on my head....)

Papa and Jesse

Papa and Chase

Mike Kori Chase Richard Jesse and I out on the porch as Nana and Papas

Jesse and Chase got baptized on Sunday Oct 21 in Ely at First Presbyterian Church. Pastor Anna and Papa. It was a wonderful celebration Jess, Nate and Angela came which was great to have them there with us... Afterwards we went and had lunch at Nana and Papas. It was a great day.

Our Unfortunate return to Minnesota...

Sunset on our final eavning....
Oogie and Padme on the Pearl street Mall
Richard Riley Evan Evie and Oogie at Garden of the gods

Riley at Manitou
Oogie at Manitou
Evie and I nuggling at Marilyns
Oogie and Padme playing after dinner...
Oogie at City Park on the stone elephant...

The cows that are out the back door of DAM on our delerious day. Oogie loved them he was particullarly excited to make sure that oma and opa got to see picture of them because they are "the biggest cows ever!"
Kalisha, Evan, Evie, me, Riley and Jesse leaving lunch on sunday we had such a great visit with evan and his family it was so wonderful to get to know them and meet the girls.
Jesse and Riley being goofy at Mr.Biggs we had a whole lot of fun!!!
The cutest rockstar i have ever met...
Jesse and Riley walking through garden of the gods it was beautiful and made me relize just how much i love th mountains...

So sad to be back home... i didn't even remotely realize how very much i missed colorado until we went back. We had a great time got to see a lot of people and have a lot of fun. We flew in on saturday and made a b line for el noa noa and had lunch which was per usual fantastic. Then we headed to DAM where we wandered around the museum for a few hours Jesse lost intrest rather quickly but did well in general. We took that evening pretty easy as we had been awake for way to long to be healthy any longer. We stayed as Richard's friend Thresa who was a wonderful and gracious host throughout most of trip we stayed at her house. Sunday morning we woke up early and headed to the springs. We spent that day with Evan and his family. We had a great visit that i wish had been days longer. The kids got along so well and had a great time playing together within a matter of moments Jesse and Riley were thick as thieves. We had lunch together at old chicago and then headed to Mr.Biggs where the kids got to run around and be crazy. The dads did to while Kalisha and I had a chance to sit and relax for the most part. I think Evan and Richard had more fun at the pirate ball room than the kids did. We then drove over and met Kalisha's parents who were very nice we have a short visit that i wish had lasted longer but jesse fell asleep about 5 minutes into their front door... We stayed in colorado springs that night and the next morning headed back over to Even and Kalishas. We then wandered around garden on the gods and took the kids to Manitou Springs where we got to take lots of pictures and play on the old fashion arcade ride with the kids. We said our good byes in manitou and headed up to boulder. It was time for some microbrew and more old friends. We headed to Mountain Sun where we met up with Mati and Padme had a great dinner wander aimlessly around pearl street just for old time and headed to their house. Had a great little visit and got to take home some of Matis homebrew. The Fat Tire clone was my favorite. The next day we spent wandering around denver heading to old haunts like the city park, the tattered cover, twist and shout records, burbon chicken for lunch and then our last supper at of course el noa noa. We left totally wanting to never leave and can't wait to head back this time we will make sure it happens a little sooner....

Music picks for the week...

So i have know decided that i am going to do a music post each week with a few artists that i have either discovered through my boundless and endless search for great music or someone who has put something out that i think all should see...

A Fine Frenzy
So in love with her voice and piano... one of the best new artists i have listened to in a long time... A Fine Frenzy fronted by Alison Sudol is amazing....



Rodrigo y Gabrilla
I don't care who you are or what music you listen to the way these two play guitar is amazing... Their covers of Wish You Were Here and Stair Way to Heaven are mind shattering... here is one of their songs from when they were on letterman




Buddy Wakefield
How amazing can one man be his spoken word is so amazing i could listen to him for hours....



so theres my first attempt at making a weekly blog thing happen... heres to making it happen a second time...

mwauh

colorado here we come

We are finally going to be making it back to colorado after being gone for almost 4 years i can not wait.. There are so many things we want to be able to do and see on this trip we have shortened it pretty substantially so that is kind of a bummer.. but hopefully we can fit alot of it in there i think i am going to miss out on going to see a show at the gothic but maybe next time... Looking forward to the mountains, the family, the friends, the food, and the microbrew...

New Bid

Finally got a new big at work and i am leaving the land of 4- close!!! Yay!!! I got a shift that is 130p-10p so yay for me. I still get to keep my rotating days off which of course rocks. Richard and I have our vacation week coming up from the 6th-15th of oct. Which is super exciting. We are hoping to all head to colorado for a couple of days. Which will be great provided we can find the funds to make that trip happen.... Very excited with all the new changes and I also have halloween off this year too. So i can finally take my son trick or treating... yay...

Ravelry

Yeah for my Ravelry invite... I finally got it three days ago so i have been playing and having so much fun... yeah for knitting fun....

I finally conquired socks...

So I have yet to post some crafty stuff so here's one chocked full of what I have been up to in that arena...

I finally tackled my first pair of socks and they came out beautifully thanks to a little help from my mom and knitty.com... I made them for Richard for his birthday and he loves them can't wait till it get cold enough to use them.... They are Hunter's Socks pattern from http://www.freshislefibers.com/Patterns/hunterssocks.pdf from fresh isle fibers. I used lambs pride worsted weight in raspberry. I think they turned out great and i have completely solidified my love for lambs pride wool....

A very happy birthday boy...
Up close
Wip

so I'm a slacker on the who blogging thing....

Been a while since I have posted I suck I know... Tons of Everything Sep19th was Talk Like A Pirate Day Oogie, Richard, and I celebrated alittle in "dressing up" as pirates for the day... here are some pictures of Oogie and I being goofy....

pics from camping finally....

The kids and I talking a walk around the camp ground...
There's my boys playing cards.... Oogie won just about every game of go fish we played... must have been beginers luck....
The kids coloring and waiting for dinner to finish cooking richard made some great food while we were out there... we ate like kings....
Late at night the kids were finally asleep and we were playing around with the timer on the camera...
playing with the camera pic is sideways sorry this is the fire right after we threw another log on...

Our camping trip was awsome... We went for three days i could have stayed for a week.... We took Jess' two daughters Kayle and Lexi... Always interesting when you add more kids but they had a great time... We let them bring pirate swords and binoculars and they played pirates alot... We had a really nice site that was right by the beach so the kids could swim all they wanted...
Hoping to get out again this fall and hopefully we can wrangle the canoe away from my mom and dad and going canoeing as well.... well thats about it....

craftiness...

I finished the first attempt at calorimetry from knitty. It was a bust turned out way to big despite do a gauge swatch... so i am going to frog it and start it over. However, i did finish the second one which is a gift to my sick self to keep my ears out of the wind untill i am better... It worked out great and i also finally found my buttons so i was able to complete it. I finally got around to taking pics of all the wonderful items, however i don't have enough time to post them before i go to work... so if we're all lucky it will get posted tomorrow.... tata

Pictures from our trip to the family reunion...

My boys right as we arrived in Racine we stopped at our favorite spot and took a rest before we went to meet up with all the family... i love my boys...
This is the church we attended on sunday with several other members of Richard's family it was established in the late 1800's and some of richards ancestors were founding members.... It is a very beautiful church and there was a very wonderful service.
The oogie boogie playing on the tire swing that hung from an old walnut tree in the front yard of the family homestead.
being goofy at the the hotel... On our way home from the family reunion we stopped at the brookfield zoo in Chicago, we got ther pretty late and didn't have to much time be did have fun and got to see lots of animals... Jesse's favorite was the baby giraffe that is under a year old...

Oogie and mommy have some fun at the zoo....

Oogie picking out our next destination on the map he was the "line leader" of the trip....

loved these two monkeys just chilling on the cliffs across from each other....

After the zoo Richard indulged me and my love for sushi and took us out to a very nice sushi resurant in Chicago, it was great and Jesse even ate some sashimi .halibut, he didn't like the wasabi very much though.....

Our last day of the trip out to lunch with Richards mom brother and sister at a wonderful resturant called the yellow rose in racine.

This is the first set of pics from the last few weeks were we have been out and about exploring the world. We also went camping and have pics from the county fair where jesse and i entered several things those will come in the next few days... enjoy

love the covells

link-a-do

http://community.livejournal.com/craftgrrl/10571744.html?style=mine#cutid1


a tutorial on how to make wrap around pants from miss kreant on live journal on our crafty grrl blog thank you thank you thank you..... so excited to make my own pair....

an interesting thought...

"My mother always told meif your enemy knows you and you know him really well and the better you know each other the harder it is to maintain a fight." ~ Dal LaMagna

In stating this he was talking about his trip to iraq to meet with various Iraqi goverment officials to discuse the posibility of a cease fire. He talks of how if we get to know these people more and understand them and give them an oportunity to get to know eachother better and maybe find a way to resolve so much more of this. The focus is that both sides do agree that al qaeda is this biggest problem. I find it so amazing the things that this man is doing and i feel that he is an amazing person who is so admirable.... I could only hope that i would be able to follow through so passionatly about my beliefs. Needed to put that out there....

home again home again jiggity jig

Well we made it home miracles never cease... relly dreading heading to work today especially since i have the house to myself as R is at work and oogie is at omas. Being a little lazy this morning.... working on getting pics up today before work or maybe after work depending on my motivation cause as we all know i have none most of the time... really need to get cracking on harvest moon festival... going to send in my aplication hopefully tomorrow... we will see if i send it in the mail i should be fine, i hope.... anywho... going to get some breakfast going will post more later...

Eyes to the skies...

we are off tomorrow morning at 230am we leave the house to fly to chicago. Looking forward to spending sometime with my boys and getting to do some fun stuff the first day the rest of them well it is a family reunion so it doesn't really qualify for a vacation but hopefully we will be able to drink enough i won't have to deal with the stupidity. Well here to getting on our flights stand by... will post pics upon return

another day down...

mom came through with county fair and brought jesse to school so that i could get to work on time and he could still enter his projects in county fair. We had a great morning together and that was pretty nice. I am glad we got to spend the time together that we did today. Also got a new digital camera so in as soon as i am back from the family reunion i will get pics up of all my fo as of the last few months and maybe even a few shots of some wips.

County Fair

County fair entry day is tomorrow.... urgh.... i still didn't get the watermellon blanket blocked nor did i get the tam felted, at least the sock monkey is completed that at least gives me something that is fully finished... I really want him to get pride and satisfaction out of the experince, and looking forward to all of it myself as well.... ta ta...
knit another day.....

mmmm stencilry fun...

found great website from craftgrrls livejournals....

http://www.stencilry.org

lots of yummy stencils for all sorts of fun, i have a few great ideas floating around my head we will see how they work.....

A...... Day in the skies

Hoping to use this as somewhere to keep track of projects when i start them ones i would like to try out etc. Mostly knitting, a little crocheting for color, beads for alittle spice, and everything else thrown in will make it quite nice i am sure of....

At the moment i am knitting a round black with an alteration on the patter that i will see if it works if it does the voila we have a knitted star blanket... just for me. In mystery yarn that is black with silver twisted in. I got 7skeins of it at a garage sale a few years back for acouple of bucks which as always a total bonus some fingerling weight acrylic is my best guess.... but it is soft and very light i am working on size 10s right now.... well tra la tra la i am off to play around blog spot now that i have joined the real world of blogging....