Swoosh..

Today, I realized that we have 19 more days left for Christmas. It's less than 20! I still remember the Halloween day. I made myself a promise not to decorate the Christmas after Halloween. If I do that, Christmas will be over before you realize it. Oh geez! So I decorated Halloween, thanksgiving, then Christmas. I may be faint.

I did not want Christmas to be over because then spring will be here. Today's weather supposed to be 95% snow/rain and guess what? NOTHING! I really want a blizzard snow. The snow is melting now. I put the snowflake on everywhere in my house and jinx it'll be heavy snow outside. Come on, snow. I miss you. 

Last night, I started a new project. Even I have a lot of projects that are still in progressing. I wanted something easy and off my mind for a while. So I want to knit this: 

So this is what looking likes: 

My computer is lazy. It doesn't want to be wake up. I want to watch Craftsy class while I'm knitting. So I have had restart a few times. My internet connection is execllent. I cannot wait to buy a MacBook laptop. I bought this PC Toshiba, because I wanted to watch my Craftsy classes with subtitles. It's doesn't work on iPad. Only on a computer. I am using my iPad for blog. It's easier to upload the pictures than computer. I don't want to transfer, save the a lot of files, use the fast flash card, or save to cd. So I'm saving my time. I already have an app of this blog. 

A few weeks ago, I finished the three hats: 

The neon orange is mine. Green is for kids. Yellow is for Derek. I used lion brand yarn thick and quickly. I ordered the Pompoms from LionBrand.com. It's so damn warm! I don't personally like to work on bulky yarn. But I couldn't resist this project. 

One thing I'm excited about Christmas is: I went to Hallmark store on Main Street for Hawaiian shoes. My croc shoes is worn out and I didn't want to fell on wet slippery floor so I bought the shoes for crystal hot spring. I got lost when I saw this and I knew that I MUST have it. It's my childhood traditional Christmas tree light.

So I put it on my wish list in Amazon. But hallmark has it for just $40! Amazon has it for $100! So I grabbed it and bought it without ask my husband for a permission. Hallmark has white ones too but green is my traditional color. 

We went to City Creek last Friday. We have fun time. I bought this: 

Yes, Teavana Tea. I absolutely love this! I was planning on to shopping: Lush, Disney store for the kids. But I saw this store of my corner eyes and dropped my jaws open and went inside and started shopping there. I had a millions times thanked my husband for this. I told him, I want to go back again. Emma agrees with me. We were supposed to be at Willard Bay for Christmas light but he's late for work so we dropped it out. So he promises me that we will go in next week. 

Merry Christmas! And happy knitting!

It Took Me A While....

I know, I know that last time I blog was a month ago. I wasn't feeling like to blogging it. I was trying to take the precious time with autumn weather. I absolutely loved the fall colors leaves. It's almost winter now. I loved the pumpkins, pumpkin walk, fall drinks, smell the fall crisp air, and walked on the crispy leaves on the streets. Autumn isn't stay that long enough. We went to the pumpkin walk twice. We have been gone to Crystal Hot Spring a lot lately.

I was down for a little. To be honest, my fan knitter, she's traveling heavy since September. She hasn't blog a lot like used to. I was always thrilled when she posted her blog. She is knitting teacher. She is teaching everywhere in the world. She lives in Toronto, Canada. So, I miss her blog. She is super busy lady. Sometimes, I know that she is home but she hasn't blog and I felt little annoying about it. Sometimes she blogs that she wanted to have a few days off from her work and blogging. I don't blame her. Also, she has an instagram that I can follow her if she cannot blog. Right now, she is home from her heavy traveling work. She is supposed to stop traveling like now, so she can stays home and do her spreadsheet for Christmas.  Last time, I saw her face on her instagram, she looks very tiredness. Not only hers, her husband is also traveling for his work too. He is musician. She usually post the finished knitting on her ravelry account, but lately she hasn't post her works since January. I wanted to see her finished work on ravelry. I have one too. (I know, I know that I am little stalker to her.)

I have been knitting a lot lately due to my wacko emotional and the earth is changing like dark is getting longer, the war between syria. Right now, I am crazy about the beads. I am working on the beads scarf, beads shawl, bulky hat, and a pink cape for Emma. Also the colors do affect my mood too. I hate pink and purple now. Cape is pink. One of the beads scarf is purple. (ugh!) But pink will be good for me during the gray related color weather. I have been watching Craftsy- knitting with the beads with Laura Nelkin. I have been ordering a lot of the Matsuno, Miyuki, and Toho beads.

Right now, we are at my parents' house for Thanksgiving dinner. We are supposed to be at Derek's parents' house but the families are not making it. Today is supposed to be heavy snow, but it hasn't yet. My home is now snowing but not in Bountiful. Odd. Hope tomorrow morning with the surprisedly snow.

Sorry, no pictures because I am using my parents' Macbook laptop.

Updating....

1. Right now, I'm drinking coffee and waiting for my idiot computer to update. I'm using my iPad for this blog. 

2. October 17th, our aunt Diane passed away. We went to her funeral in bountiful. We stayed in Country Inn hotel with a suite room. It has a fireplace and a jet tub. I absolutely loved it. 

3. I'm surprised by myself that I'm keeping exercise everyday for thirty minutes. I did used our hotel exercise room so I won't miss a day. Good job, Jenna. 

4. I have to exercise that my doctor ordered me to do so. No excuses. 

5. Last week, I was sick with cold flu. Now, the air is killing me because it's dry air. 

6. We are looking forward for Halloween. 

7. We went to Pumpkin Walk. Twice. Love it so much. 

8. I'm currently working on dog coat for Aggie. It's knitting. And yes, I finished the previous projects. Finally. 

9. We love our Reeses, the Guinea pig. She's comfort with us now. 

10. Oh I realized, I'm tired. So I'm sipping my coffee now. 

Good/Bad

What I am good and bad at things: 

Bad: I'm lazy to blogging it for a while. 

Good: I'm good at reading the knitters, their blogs. 

Bad: I'm not good at house cleaning nor keep up my housework tidying. 

Good: I'm keeping up at knitting. 

Bad: I really need to do housework. 

Good: I have been watching a movie- Stepmom. Jackie is really good at being a motherhood. She's influencing me to do to improve my housework. Like it's music to me. 

Bad: Derek is tired of this movie over again and again in our a DVD player almost every night. 

Good: I have kept up my routine since school started. 

Bad: I am trying to not to take a nap during kindergarten period. 

Good: I have been exercising since school started and my doctor ordered me to do so. 

Bad: I'm not cooker for dinner. We are struggling with out-eat. 

Good: I'm working on that above. 

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I have been knitting a lot due to my depression and little crazy. It helps a lot. Currently, I'm knitting a fantastic cowl for a friend. I'm on last and third repeat of a chart, then I'll knitting 6 of garter stitches rounds. 

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Our birthdays were great. We went to Chuck-A-Rama for lunch on Sunday of 13th. Later that day to the evening, my parents came with the presents. I bought a present for Emma, it's a pink scooter. 

I got the batt that I spotted it from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee aka yarnharlot. I immediately texted the link to my mom for my birthday gift. I absolutely love it. 

It's black alpaca with hand dyed silk rainbow. Spinning is calling me and I'm trying to making a time for it. 

Wyatt got a small toy to feel justified from being a left out. He got Lego, -I-was-like,-oh-shit.-In-my-mind,-you,-my-parents,-wasted-your-money-for-that!- He will definitely lost the pieces. And now, his Lego is somewhere in the house in the pieces. He is not doing well with toys that are: electric, pieces, and fragile toys. He's destroyer. Sorry dad and mom. It's still bothering me, because he's almost 8 years old and he's still breaking the stuffs. We told him a millions zillions times not to do that. So we decided to buy him the clothes for his birthday and Christmas. 

I made the birthday cake. Macey's bakery is expensive so I decided to make it anyway. 

Notice there's one letter of an N....there was only one N of candy letters. 

That's it for now. Hope I can blog sooner. Happy knitting and happy fall! 🍁🍂

Catching Up

I have been behind on things/house/knitting. I have so many of WIPs that I need to get them finishing. I finally started the cowl because I realized the autumn is right there around the corner. I really want her to feel the cowl with chilly outside. The cold weather will be coming in a few days. I'm so looking forward to. I'm almost finish the Shetland hap shawl blanket so I can use/wear when the beauty of the fall to come. Only 3 edges to go of four square sides. Also I want to get my tank done that I was supposed to wearing for Disneyland, but I didn't finish it. I always feel like 'so little time and so many patterns to knitting'. 

I'm so happy that school starts. We can have our routine back. I love to clean my house in the morning. Knitting in the afternoon. Doing the chores in the afternoon is not so great for me. I'm always tired in the afternoon. In the morning, I feel fully awakened. So the kids are in school and I'm all alone without the kids give me the hard time. So I can get things done by then. 

I went to the yarn shop because I miss it so much. I haven't bought the yarns lately, but this time I didn't, because I have so many WIPs and I wanted this book so I got it for 50% off. Like Stephanie said "Experience palpitations when passing a yarn shop?" Always, always, and always. I love her books. So far, I have 4 books of hers and of course, I need to buy more of hers. 

Psst, the pink drink is Plexus Slim. In case if you're wondering. 

Happy knitting and happy autumn to you. 

No Time To Do Blog Or Chores

I realized that time is going faster than I thought. I feel like I have no time to do most of things. All I want is knitting. I hate chores. I did do my chores like yesterday but it was last week. Stop the clock, please. My kitchen is trashed. My zucchini is sitting on my kitchen counter and waiting for me to cook it. I'm planning to make zucchini muffins with cream cheese. I'm supposed to make zucchini cinnamon rolls but making the dough is tough. I don't want double trash in my kitchen with the flour over all. 

Anyway, I'm knitting Shetland hap shawl. It's old name for Shetland. It's means that it's blanket. 

No time for blogging, chores, cook, and napping. More time for knitting. 

Welcome Brantley

Welcome, welcome little ones. You born at 7:20 PM today. Your mama just had C-section due to stop processing. We will be seeing you at the first time on this weekend. Welcome to beautiful earth, little boy. 

The blanket that I knitted it is for you. Your aunt can be hugging wrap around you in that antique blanket. To remember by me due to far away from you. 

Your papa and mama are surely exhausted. They waited for you to arrives. I was anxious waited for you to arrived by texts. 

Your cousins are excited to meeting you, little ones. 

Psst, yes you, Brantley, please just don't grow up so fast. 

Disneyland V:4

We were underwater of Finding Nemo. It was fun. We ate at Hungry Bear restaurant in DisneyPark. Splash Mountain. Derek should switch the seat because we can't see Wyatt's expression face. A photo of us together.

Welcome to Cars Land. Mater is real truck. Even, we couldn't see the driver inside. It was so cool! We really like the new ride: Cars. Hi Mickey Mouse.

I don't recall that I rode the Little Mermaid but I went anyway. It was 5 minutes wait in stand by. It was fun. We saw Pluto the dog and stop and said hi. We ate the free cupcake for birthday of Disneyland the 60th. I love the square candy ones. Wyatt loves the Tower Terror. You can see that he is really enjoying the ride. Emma doesn't. I had to held my stupid boobs when it drops down.

I love that Derek has been doing with Emma's hat. Ha ha. Emma was shy to smile by Minnie Mouse at the Goofy's kitchen. She said that she is little scared because it's big than small from the TV.
Oh look! It's green soldiers toy thingy. I can't image that they have to wear that thing and green paint face in the hot sun. Even coats. Anyway, the cupcake is huge. The inside was orange with chocolate chip. It was okay.

We rode in the Monster Inc rides. The kids love being in the small car in the Disneyland hotel. Oh look, how it has been changed since 1955 to present. It used to parking lot front of Disneyland park that once is now California Adventure. It was our first time being outside to our flight from our gate. I did breathe the SF air!

There you go.

Disneyland V:3

Here the pictures! Enjoy them.

 
We woke up really early on Wednesday morning. 4AM. My dad dropped us off at the SLC airport. So we don't have to pay our van for parking lot. It is their first time being in a plane. Our flight is Alaska. The little planes are in SFO airport.

 

Once we arrived to SFO. It has playaround.
The plane is our flight. United.
You can see the Golden Bridge under the cloud. Yes, I know it little bit hard to see but it's there.








































Once we arrived to Orange County John Wayne airport. We went to our hotel: Quality Inn.
We are so happy to be at Disneyland for their celebrating of 60th birthday. 1955-2015.

Once we entered into Disneyland park. Our very first ride is Tea Cup of Madder Hat.
The kids are excited to have the hats.
Emma loves the castle.

The next rides are: Finding Nemo, Boat Story; there are frozen castle!; and walk around to see the Tinker Bell, my favorite fairy.

PS, I will load more of the pictures tomorrow.

PPS, I am using PicCollage app. There are hundred of photos. PicCollage save my time.

Disneyland V:2

Oy! We landed in Salt Lake City airport in really late night on Saturday. Almost to midnight due to delayed from San Francisco airport. Delayed: really late inbound crew. I really love the plane most of time of our vacation.

We arrived in our hotel: Quality Inn on Wednesday, 7.15.15. We had layovers two flights. I absolutely loved it! I don't really like nonstop flight. I loved the feeling of takeoff and landing. During in the plane, we love to watch the tiny cities below. We did part of touch in SF, CA. So I don't have to visit it. I saw a city of SF and Golden Bridge on my flight. That's good enough for me. That's means SF is do exist from the movies.

I thought it will be awful of layover in SFO. Really, it isn't. I was surprised. It has playground for the kids, which it is so neat! We ate Chinese food in SFO. The kids ate pizza. We walked around in departure level. I love to see the planes takeoffs and landings. We did breathe the air outside of SFO to count of my visit to SF for a few minutes. TSA gave the kids the colors book to keep them busy. I was like thank god for that!

Once we arrived in Anaheim, we went to Downtown Disney to ate the restaurant at Rain forest Cafe. It was an hour and a half waiting in the line but we decided to claimed the bar instead of waiting. It was empty of 4 seats and we are lucky to got the seats. Oy, it was so expensive prices! But, of course, it's California. It's their price equal to their paycheck wage and it was different than Utah prices.

Next day, we went to Disneyland park. It surely was longest day ever! The waiting line stand-by was so long. We left our hotel to ART bus to Disneyland at around 8:30pm, actually, we didn't pay attention the time. We didn't get to our hotel until 11PM. We went to almost all of the rides. I finally rode the Monorail! Because I remembered that when I first time saw it, I begged my dad to ride it and my dad said no because it related to Disneyland hotel. I knew it that he is wrong. Our last ride was Splash Mountain. It was an hour and a half wait in the line due to the maintain problems. The ride was jammed. Most of the FastPass give up and left before 15 minutes when it's resumed. We didn't give up. My feet were killing me! So we decided to leave to go back to the hotel due to our bodies aches. Yes, the kids threw the tantrums by wanted to see the neon parades and firework. By the bus, we saw some of fireworks. I really much needed to get my feet off the floor. When I was woke up in the next morning, it was little better but still sore.

Next day, we went to California Adventure. I decided for all of us that we can only ride 5 rides due to my feet. So we went to Cars, The Little Mermaid, The Monster Inc., Terror Tower, and Cars tractors. We did planned on going to Grizzly bear ride but it was 55 minutes wait in stand-by. I said no. We went to the cafe and Starbucks. It was pretty short activities in California Adventure. We tried to find the time to swimming the hotel pool but couldn't. Once we returned to our hotel, we rested pretty much. We did planned on going to House of Blue restaurant but we are too exhausted from Disneyland park. So we ordered the Chinese take out. We went to the Walmart neighborhood store. I was jealous because it has alcohol aisle. Utah don't have it. Of course, we bought the Smirnoff and wines.

Of course, we met many of Disney princess, princes, mickey mouse and Minnie. Even green toy army.

We used Super Shuttle to drop/pick from the airport to hotel and from hotel to the airport. We used ART: Anaheim Resort Transportation bus to Disneyland from hotel. It was one mile between.

We had a breakfast with Goofy in Goofy's kitchen in Disneyland hotel.

I asked the kids what are their favorite ride: Wyatt loves Terror Tower Hotel. Emma loves Splash Mountain. Me, of course the plane from airport. I do love them all the rides. But flight is my favorite part of the vacation.

I didn't ask Derek what is his favorite, I am sure he loves them all like I do.

I did wanted to go to the beach but my feet can't take any longer as it can go. So do the Yarn store but can't. Cursed you, feet!

I will post the pictures soon.

Happy day!