Disneyland

We.

Simply.

Cannot.

Wait.

For.

Our.

Big.

Vacation.

On.

July.

15.

To.

18.

We will be flying to SFO to SNA Orange county. We are excited and anixous wrack. I have been there twice. It'll be my third time. It'll be probably Derek third time since he touched it when he was just a little boy. The kids will be their first time. It's actually my turn to fly a plane since I noticed a few people I know that are already rode the planes. The plane is calling to me. So do Disneyland. It'll be super fun vacation family time. I'll post the pictures. Plus, we will have a breakfast with Goofy in Goofy's Kitchen in Disneyland hotel.

Simply. Cannot. Wait. Only almost about 30 hours to go.

Status: Blanket

Status: finished.

Keisha: still preggy 

Attitude of knitter: happiest!!!

Randomly on a Tuesday

1. It's our 9th wedding anniversary today. Unfortunately, Derek has to work a double shifts today. So we went to donut shop to eat the donuts. I had mocha coffee donut and Sally's iced coffee. Derek had regular donuts and the kids had maple and chocolate with sprinkles.

2. Today is hot day. I was thinking about to spinning for summer.

3. I simply cannot wait for June 17th to come.

4. My guinea pig, Reeses approves the Pride necklace that Derek and I went to Pride parade and festival last Sunday with our friends: Michael, Danielle, Alissa, their baby, & Tyler. It was interested experience for us. It was fun and weird. But we had blast time together. Danielle told me that it was bigger than before. It's good news because Utah is really much needed opened-mind!

 

5. A few days ago when we finally have sunshine from too much of wettest weather. The kids were playing in the swimming pool and I was sitting on our brand new deck patio desk outside backyard and knitting. I couldn't resist it because they are darn cute.

 

6. I ordered some of Haribo candies from Amazon. This ones is interesting. Well, it's not tasting like an egg but the yolk is sweeter than the white. 

7. I am still knitting Keisha's baby blanket. 4th and final of edge work then done. Of course, I'll block it.

8. I am almost up to a halfway of triangle then I will start decrease the blanket. I started with the one stitch of cast on then increase up to 144 sts then I will start work on decrease then later on, I'll pick up the entire of square. It's hap shawl by Gudrun as I mentioned earlier. 

9. My yarn is on the way to my house. I am so exciting to knitting this shawl. It's absolutely beautiful. 

10. Ok knitter is out. I need to waste my days until June 17 comes. Only 8 more days to go. eghu!! Come on, June....

I Know, I Know......

I know that I am behind on my blog. It has been crazy weeks for us. Crazy? Well, I mean that we have been busy lately. Wyatt had a lot of field trips from his school. Today is last day of school. Oh boy, I will have 3 months of chaos. I was trying to keep my head above the water level. Derek has been trying to keep up our income to pay the bills. But right now, we are ok. I have been shifting my emotional due to the weather storm. Sometimes it tired me. Sometimes it anxious me. We have a lot of raining storm for almost of whole of May month. It was like total of 6 months of raining in ONE month. I have been watching the storm related movies. By the way, today's weather is partly cloud with little of sunshine. Oh and we have pretty a lot of funnel clouds here in Utah. I was shocked about it. But the canyons are all greeny due to overflow rain! It was so beautiful. We are still using our fireplace. It's little bit of chilly.

I am almost done knitting Keisha baby blanket. I am happy about it because I can move on to a new project of knitting. I have been obsessed about hap Shetland blanket by Gudrun Johnston. This ones is mine. 

Knitting keeps me to stay sane of life. Enjoying the rain, I am, but sometimes sunshine will be nice.

Breathtaking!!

Oh my! Look at them! It's surely taking my breath away! It's at second dam in Logan canyon. 

Easter Time Together

How's your Easter Day? Our was, eh, okay. The kids had the meltdown in a half of day. When the evening was came, it was good. We went to Golden Corral for our Easter breakfast. We had not gone to there for 6 years and I had forgotten how it looks like. Now, it was ok. I like village inn restaurant better. My opinion. Derek likes the buffet to get as much as you can. 

Derek was stubborn to buy the Easter baskets for the kids. I think it was totally waste due to the kids break them. We couldn't go to the family for Easter due to Emma has a pink eye. I don't even know how did she got it from. Last week, we are pretty much staying home all week. Derek recently mowed the lawn so we couldn't hide the eggs and I don't want them to eat too much of candies. Plus waste of money too. So we did do dyed the eggs instead. I think dyed the eggs are fun. The kids love it. Sometimes it stresses me due to the dyed messy. After we dyed, I made the devil eggs with avocado instead the mayo and more healthier. I used the organic foods. I like the taste of it. Yes, I wore the Christmas apron. Lucky, the blue ones was splash on over me. Yay apron. 

I'm knitting a brioche cowl. I started it last night. Because I only have one project: baby blanket with over 400 stitches. It'll be up to 816 stitches. I knit two rounds a day due to about 2 hours total of two rounds worth of knit. So I want to start a small project. I love knitting so much. I couldn't live without it. So I used in two colors. Purple/grey with minty. The yarns: Lorna's Laces Honor. 70% baby alpaca 30% silk. It's little light than called for. I wanted to use up my yarn stashes. I got this yarns by mistake. I ordered for Lorna's Lace Sportmate but they sent me the wrong ones but I don't bother to replace because hey, it's alpaca!  So soft! I am using Clover Bamboo circular needle due to my loose gauge. Metal is not ideal for my gauge with this project. Too slippery and very loosely stitches. Bamboo wood is better and more sturdy for my project. I'm using 2.75mm with 16 inches circular. 

A Moment

A moment of animal day at American West Heritage Center. I want to pause and savor the memories in this time. 

🐥🐥🐓🐓💐💐❤️❤️

Welcome Spring of April.

I'm happy to see the spring colors. The trees are blooming. My tulips are growing nicely. My lawn is outgrown and needs to be mowing. My tiny vegetables garden are growing as expected and nicely. 

I took Emma to Claire's to get her ear lobes pieced once again after they were closed due to infected. She got Elsa earring. Of course, she was terrified. I held her and told her it'll be quickly. So she trusted me and got pieced and she was like in shocked after the ladies put them in. Feel like a flu shot. 

I love the bathroom quote. Derek and Wyatt are always not being too carefully. I have to mop occasionally. Oy, what a joy to have the boys. 

I just saw this drink Coffeeberry and took it to buy it. It's yum. It's konared Hawaiian. 

I showed to Derek about being sweetheart and smartass. He agrees but I disagree because I'm only sweetheart. He said no, you are both sweetheart and smartass. Well, it's true, I always give him a hard time because I really love him so much. He was laughing when he saw this quote and made me love him even more. We are madly in love each other since 10 years together. Can you believe this it been 10 years since 2005?! One year of boyfriend/girlfriend and 9 years of marriage. 

Derek is getting his tattoo like a picture above on his upper arm. 

I finished knitting a baby sack for Keisha and it's ready for her and we found out they're having a baby boy. 

I love the coffee quote. Espresso and depresso, mmm I agree it. Without it, I'll be lazy and sleep all day. Coffee is only helping me to keep going on. 

I just cast on a second pair of sock for Derek yesterday. Today, I'm almost halfway to finish. 

Don't we love the good inspired quote? I do. 

Yesterday, I feel quite stressed and I ate a whole of chocolate pie from village inn which is that I normally don't tend to. My wine are run out. Oops, ahem. I need to go to Idaho to buy more. We are live about 20-30 minutes away from Idaho. 

I can't want to smell fresh air in spring flowers. 

Enjoy the lovely spring. We will be dyeing our eggs soon to welcome the spring. 

Spring Break

1- Next week is spring break in Cache Valley. We are planning on go to the animals day at American West Hertiage Center on Thursday, April 2nd. We are excited about it. We want to hold the baby chicks.

2- I did do my hand nails with gel bright purple as for spring colors. I did do on my toes nails into Easter colors. I did do on Emma, same the colors as mine. I, indeed, actually did do on Wyatt's hands nail blue with sparkle. Because his school is out for a week for a spring break. So why not. His nails blue won't last that long due to he is a rough kid.

3- I finished sock and I need to start a second pair ones. It's for Derek. It is perfect fits. I was so happy knitter. I am still knitting a baby blanket for Keisha. I am hoping that I will have enough of yarns. I am currently on a second section of a blanket. There will be a third section then add the lace edge. I want to start to knitting the brioche cowl. I just purchased the brioche knitting on Craftsy show. I got it for like 33% off from original $45.00 to $29.99. Hey, not all of Craftsy are pricey, but depend on what class you want to buy. The baby sack is almost finish, but I need to add little couple more of cm/inches rounds.

4- I purchased the Apple TV. I LOVE it! I love AirPlay. The newest Roku is in the family room downstairs with the brand new TV. Also I bought a Blu-ray and DVD two-in-one player. I ordered a lot of Lush bubble bars and bombs for me, Derek, and the kids. The kids love to play with it. Derek love bomb. I prefer bubble bar. I learned about the lush box that they shipped to me that inside of the puff thingy to protect the soaps from breaking is potato starch, so I planted them into my garden. I even did gave a little piece to my piggy Reeses. It's shrinking once when you water them. I was shocked. It's recycle thingy for Lush company to protect the enivorment of earth. I like it.

5- Last week on March 17th, we got our brand new tattoos. Interesting experience for us. Why yes, it's painful. Mine is hits the nerve in the middle of it on my left calf above ankle. Derek told me, it little pain for him on his left arm. But we love it. Derek wants more. I said go ahead, I want more yarns. Ahem.

6- We recently went out for our hike in Logan canyon. It was so beautiful! We even went up higher to played with the snow in Tony Grove. I miss snow.

7- I am happy that we are going to eat at Blue Bird tomorrow. Derek is not a big fan of it. It's Derek's grandma's birthday, so we are celebrating at there. I like Blue Bird restaurant and the old building.

8- Well, I am taking off now, and watching Craftsy and making the dinner. Take care!

Shetland Wool

I finished this hat yesterday afternoon. I am glad it's done. Not like I am tired of this. It's just finally it's finished because I started over again due to my miscalculated math. So I used this size in 2.25mm instead of 3.00mm. I still cant get my gauge right accord to the pattern so I used the smaller size needles. After I blocked it, it fits. That's relief.

I used the swatches of this pattern from my stupid gauge as a pin saver for my sewing. I love this yarn. It's from Shetland in Scotland. It's Shetland 100% wool. It's sticky yarn. This yarn is valuable to me. Like it's value to the people in ancient time. I was randomly picked the colours but somehow they are looking good together. I do really love Shetland wool yarn from Jamieson's in Scotland.