Oh, What A Such Of Beauty

I'm writing this to you from our hotel (Best Western) in Coalville. We are staying for three days. Today, is our last day. The kids love to swimming and Derek loves to get in hot tub. Me, well, I did swam last Friday night. I'm sitting on the table and watching them in the swimming pool. I dipped my feet in hot tub for a moment. 

I don't sleep very well since we got here in hotel. My body doesn't want to go to sleep, even I only slept a few hours. My body wants morning when it's time for bed. I'm stomach sleeper. But lately, my shoulders and neck are sore from wrong position of sleep. My breasts don't want me to sleep on my stomach. So I had to built the pillows into mountain so I don't lay completely down flat. But, still awful. 

Anyway, we went to Midway for Ice Castle. Emma was so excited that Frozen Elsa and Anna were there. 

These icicles are scary! I had to pushed the kids to move quickly to clear overheads. But it was cool and creepy. 

The castle was big. We are scale of castle. 

There are many of caves. The colors were so cool. The floor was little bit hard to walk. It's like sand. 

More creepy icicles. 

Oh, these ice slide are more fun than look up at the icicles. The kids went round trip a million times. We love to watch the kids, their invent what kind of sit, lay down, or kneel when they are sliding down. Ice castle do have an adult ice slide but the line were so forever! So the kids slide is more quickly, since the kids are moving so quickly than the adults. 

There was a throne of dome. Derek asked a nice lady to took a picture of us together. 

It was good long day in ice castle. We went to for cupcakes, Starbucks, and McDonald's. 

Enjoy the winter wonderland. 

Oh, Are You Kidding Me?!

I checked my Ravelry.com and counted how many projects I have been knitting for 2015. I usually go about for 13 projects a year. 

I checked on one of my favorite knitter, her projects of 2015. She beats me. I feel/thought she knits about the same I do, wrong! She knitted 49 projects in 2015. The big 4-9! I was shocked. She knit: 1- slipper. 2- 10 hats. 3- 15 socks. 4- 5 baby sweaters. 5- 2 mittens. 6- 2 scarves. 7- 2 sweaters. 8- 3 shawls. 9- 1 toddler sweater. 10- 3 baby booties. 11- 3 cowls. 12- 1 baby dress. 13- 1 baby blanket. Total: 49. 

Oh geez! I wish I could do that like her. I have small children to take care of. Time is so little and so many projects. I couldn't sit more than 2 hours. 

She's super faster knitter. 

Anyway, I'm currently knitting the Mac book pro case. I'm trying to get its done before I run out of yarn, because I found out this yarn is discontinued. It's very slow processing due to multiple cables cross. It's woven stitch. 

At first, I used small straight Susan Bates needles. Too many stitches on needles. Plus it's super bulky yarn. So I hoped I have circular needle somewhere in my basement. Behold lo! I found it! I was relieved that I don't have to buy it, because I don't usually work on bulky yarn and the fat needles. 

My mom wants me to knit her bulky hat, so I'm trying to get my projects finish. 

Christmas Break

Happy New Year! I can't believe that 2016 is here. I am still thinking that 1990 is only ten years ago. Nope, it IS 26 years ago! 😱

Our Christmas break was good and bad. Good= we had a great time with Derek's family on Christmas eve and the 26th. We stayed at our house on Christmas day. I wanted to try out by ourselves about Christmas day just for four of us in my own home. I made breakfast and dinner. Bad= the kids woke up without to wake us up for the presents. They went on and opened the presents without their parents around to see them. I was furious. I told the kids that you need to wake us up first. We missed the surprised of their faces. And second bad news is that we were sick with stomach flu. We had food poison, then the kids started puke/diarrhea. I had stomach ache.

My parents came on the 27th at my house, because I told them that I don't want to drive down to Bountiful. Plus, it was snow a lot.

As of today, we are getting better from the flu. I cleaned the house to get rid of the flu bacteria everywhere.

I am so happy that the Christmas break is over. The kids are returning to the school on Monday. Hooray for mommy.

I am hoping this 2016 will be great. You probably says in your mind that everyone said the same thing over in every new year. I mean that what will 2016 bring to everyone. We can't see the future what 2016 will looks like. Plus, I am hoping for a great new president of the US. My resolution of this year is knitting ever more(er). Of course, I can't wait to see what the knitters, their blog to read. Like, I can read from January to December of 2015 of the blog relate with knitting.

My plan this year for Christmas 2016 is to knitting everyone in the Thorup's family socks. Derek's family is allergy to wool. So do Kelli. I did do my homework to figured out the math of their shoes sizes for socks. I couldn't have done this without the book: 'Custom Socks' by Kate Atherley.

I am going to enjoy the winter wonderland of January as much as I can. I hate summer. I hate the insects and spiders. I hate the heat. I hate to do the lawn work. I just love the white snow blanket over the town. Today, lately of the weather is below zero in F degrees. Nice! Of course, with our fireplace. Mm. You must be thinking that I am freaking crazy. Oh well. I just love snow.

Happy 2016, Happy knitting, and Happy MacBook.

Long Day For This!

Squueeezeee! Today, we got our Macbook pro laptop. I have been waiting all day for this to delivery to our front door. I thought it will be like noon to delivery. Nope, it's delivered at 7PM. Dude, it is too long, dear Ontrac, the company of delivery. I did rechecked my e-mail a thousands times to check my track of this laptop.

I told my husband, we are apple user, period! I hate like: samsung, androids, you name it. I love apple better. We are looking forward for the iPhone. I mean, not right away now. I am hoping like when our van is pay off, so we can have extra for the bill of cell phone. I want a plan of family of 4 for the cell phones for under $150 per month. For the kids' sake.

It's our christmas present, the new MacBook Pro laptop! Derek said that it's your christmas present and you are still getting me a christmas present. I told him, bullshit. This is your too, so it's our present. He said that "I didn't ask for it, you asked for it." I gave him my face. Nice try, sweetie.

I love how the keyboards are lit up. I love how fast it running than my shitty PC.

Merry Christmas! Happy MacBook, if you have it.  

Have to have it!

I have been collecting the 80's-90's toys since. When I first time saw this:

From yarnharlot. I immediately knew that I have to have this! So I googled and found it in Amazon. So I ordered it: 

It's little bit different colour from above. It's green. Hi, Reeses. She's doing great little pig. We need to get her to vet to check her up to date. We got her when she was 7 months old. And now she's 3 years old. 

Psst, I gave in and bought MacBook Pro laptop last night. I bought third times of PC laptop and its shut me out after a few months. I absolutely hate PC. Plus, I hate to renew Norton too. I talked to the person of Apple Store and he told me that I will love it than shitty PC. My mom has it for a long time and it stills great laptop. PC is not that last long like apple do. 

Merry Christmas!

And My House Is Debris Everywhere

I have to admit that this is me. Derek is strongly agrees about it. Ahem.... 

My weakest is "I will". I always said: I will. I never keep my promise. Also, I did keep saying that I will clean the house after I finished this project. But I ended up started the new project while I'm still working on my another projects. I'm cursed! So this morning, I drank strong coffee to active my energy and cleaned the kitchen. Finally, I will and I did! Clean your house isn't easy. Knitting is pulling me away from it, like I'm magnet to knitting. 

Now, "I'm on a break" stated Ross from the Friends show. I'm knitting and drinking my second cup of coffee. I love this coaster of snowman for my cups. I'll return to resume to do sweeping and mopping the kitchen floor. I will, Jenna- just do it! 

Psst, my computer is finally awake and I, indeed, watched my Craftsy. 

This is me in the most mornings. Coffee is helping me to keep going on in the most of my day. 

Merry Christmas!

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! 🍁🍂