Today's Blog

Hello you all,

I have been so busy like a crazy. May, June, and July will be so super busy for me. But that is good to keep me to stay sane than being bored and grumpy. The kids will have the activities in the summer to keep them busy while I am working.

Next week or two, I am getting surgery to fix my uterus tubes tied. I am exciting and relieved. I can worry free. No BC, or IUD or anything. Derek will get his later in next year or so.

In June, we will be at Disneyland again. Surprisedly! Yeah, the kids didn't know until we get there. We have been keeping secrets for a while.

Anyway,

I decided to bought this FitBit Alta bracelet after I went to doctor visiting. I am really enjoying it so far. It has vibrate, time, sleep tracking, calories tracking, exercise tracking, date, read texts, how many minutes, and how many steps. It is water resisted. I like the charger than using the battery, battery is pain in a$$.

Yesterday, I took a bike ride to Knit Unique yarn shop. It was little hard due to little hill up than down to my house. I want to keep exercise daily. I also frequent taking the public bus around the city for my exercise and save my gas. I walk, I bike, I take the bus. Those are fun and work out well.

Derek's friend from the work, gave me the fresh shored off of the sheep hair for me to spinning. I am so excited! There are still a lot of wool to be wash. I am doing time to time due to huge wool. Washing is hard work. I have to do repeat and repeat wash in one batch of wool. I have about 12 batches of wool. I used blue dawn dish soap. Wash for like 3 times. The first of wash, there was so dirty and brown water. Then second and third washes, there were some of dirty remain. I have to shake then off after they are dry. 

I want to buy another spinning wheel. It is Louet S10 DT. I want this ones to spinning with the wool. I bought the hand carders for woolen yarn, I need to buy hand combs for worsted yarn soon. I bought the Craftsy class: fiber preparation for spinning with Esther Rodgers. I love this class online. It was so good and learning a lot. 

On May 7th, we will go to Cornish for Wool Trek 2016: Who: spinners, knitters, weavers, and curious interlopers. When: May 7th 10:00AM-3:00ish (or however long folks want to stay). Where: Cornish. What: potluck brunch wheels, spindles, needles and gossip, skirt scramble, wool sales-fleece-roving-yarn-felt.

It will be my first time for yarn festive! I am exciting, because I have been wanted to go to Rhinebeck, New York for wool fair festive in every fall season. 

It will be fun! Yay me!

Eh, ugh, yikes, ew to this weather today. I want sunshine, sun, sunny, bright sunny to be here. I hate this depress, gray, cold, dark, and tired weather. It's been almost 2 weeks. I miss sun, anyone of you who are living in the sunny place, you lucky! It's has been windy. I was worried about my trampoline in my backyard, and also my trash can. But they are all ok after I woke up this morning.

I'm going to sit down by my precious fireplace and knitting. I have been working on my Etsy all this morning.

Randomly on Monday

I finished the socks for Justin. It's looking good. 

I finished the baby socks for Brantley. So daddy and son have the match colors socks. Baby socks are quickly than adult socks. I got it finished in 2 days. 

I'm currently working on crochet Unfold cowl. I'm using Madelinetosh 80/10/10 fingering weight yarn. 

I love this quote. I think it's pretty funny. Cheer.

I captured this yesterday sunset. There was a little rainbow on the left above of mountain. It's hard to see it. After this, it was turned into dark blue-gray. 

Wyatt had his dentist appointment today. He has another silver caps on. He had bad cavities, I wasn't realizing after I saw when he was laughing. Emma hasn't yet have her baby front teeth out. 

Derek and I have been planning on our vacation in June. It's surprising vacation for the kids. 

I'm still obsessed about Yarnharlot. I asked my husband for a permission to buy the ticket for flights. He said yes. So I'm planning on go by myself to Seattle and Portland in Oregon for just in 24 hours. I love airplane. I wish I hate it, but nope. I'm just visiting the airport, not outside to tour around in the city. Just want to stop by then flying to Portland. Then again, flying back home. I live here in western. But never touch Washington and Oregon. It's kind of bothering me. I'm happy to just see the city in the air. Go ahead and laughing. You think that I am crazy, but I think it's good idea to "touch" the states without the vacation there. We are planning on to fly and touch the 50, actually 47 states to see instead tour around in the cities. I realized that I only fly in four states. California, Arizona, Nevada and New York City. Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming were in car trips. 

I saw San Fransico in the air. I saw Golden Gate Bridge, bay, and white point building. I'm good enough. My eyes touch the cities than my physical body touch the lands. 

Derek is planning on to go to Denver to watch the Broncos football game with his friend. So we made the deal about the flights trip. 

Happy Monday and happy knitting. 

Welcome April

Finally, March is gone. That's means the summer is getting closer. I usually love winter cold days. But the beginning of the year, I wanted sunshine, warm, & long daylight. I am happy that daylight is finally here. No more dark early. I love to see the sunrise in every early morning. My body must to have sun soak on me. It's help to cheer, lift up, and sun therapy.

I usually love this temperature of 50 F degrees, but right now, it's BRRR for me. I wanted 80 F degrees. (I can't wait for Mesquite, NV for our mini vacation in June)

I ordered 8 books by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. I love knitting related book. I just bought Knitlandia by Clara Parkes. Currently, I am reading A Yarn Whisperer also by Clara Parkes. I love this book. I didn't thought of this reality life compare with knitting life world.

Lately, I have been ordered a lot things from Amazon. I feel like it Christmas again. I  love to see the boxes at my front door. I know that I already know what is inside, but I love to see and touch the real things on my hands from the orders on the computer. Also, what is inside that boxes when my orders are shipped. They are not in organize shipping. I have one remain that are still in shipping to come.

I ordered dark blue fingering weight yarn to knit the a pair of socks for my mom for Christmas 2016.

I am almost finishing the second socks for my brother, Justin. Like I said in earlier, that I am knitting everyone in Thourp's family socks for Christmas. Except for Jayden, his wife is allergic to wool.

We went to Baby Animals Day in American West Heritage Center. We had blast time. I love to hold the baby chicken and ducks. I am little disappointed that we missed the baby rabbit. The weather was so weird. The moment we arrived, it was light mist raining, a half hour later, it was so wet and humid, I took off the jacket. Sweat and humid= unforgivable. Then another half hour later, it was sunny. The last moment before we leave to head home, the raining was so pouring hard and windy. We ran to our van in the very far away from the entrance.

Here the pictures:

 
The baby chicken.

The baby ducks.

 The donkey and goat.

The baby bears.

The baby turtles.

The baby goats. I love them so MUCH! They were "BAA" at me. I love to pet them, really soft fur. I saw the dried belly cord connection to the mother.

 The baby cow.

Our spring break was good. The kids went to the Moab with their grandparents Thorup. I was free for  Saturday night to Wednesday afternoon. I love to sit on my bed and watched the Netflix and knitting. No chores for me. but we did cleaned the kitchen together and went to WinCo grocery store after we came come from the frontrunner to dropped off and picked up the kids. I love to take frontrunner, because I hate to drive the crazy freeway down to Bountiful. The freeway roads were chaos due to the construction. I hate slow traffic, busy, too fast than limited MPH, and cops. We used the highway 89 to Ogden. We parked our van there and take the train to Woods Cross. My parents picked us up. I love being in the train, worry free, watch outside while the train is in motion, love to sit with the table, it has plug for changer, it has restroom, and we love to sit the top level of train. Derek was sleeping there. I was planning to knitting, but I was so much enjoyed to watching outside the views.

Tonight, I am going to knitting and watch the movie: Daddy's Home.

Happy Knitting and Happy Spring.