Ahh Sighs!

My parents came and picked the kids up to be with them for their grandma's work site in Cache Valley. I had a very nice and quiet break for 3 hours without the kids around in the house. *Sighs* It was so heavenly! I cannot wait for them to go to school so I can be alone again. I caught up cleaned up the house, got myself dressed, and sat down and crocheting. Love it!

I noticed that they went to Hyrum McDonald's. The kids had fun time played in the playground. Wyatt is in his real underwear for 3 weeks now. Yay! I am still proud of him! Now I need to working on Emma's.

Kids' Astronaut Helmet

I love it. When I first time saw this pattern, I wanted to make this for Wyatt. I can simply buy plain white sweater and sweatpants so he can be completely astronaut for Halloween. I started and finished yesterday. I can make football helmet. Just simply adjust the neck helmet into a black i-cords. I used Red Heart Super Savor yarn.

Jordyn's Baby Blessing

Ta-Da! My mom is always the one who is behind a camera. I held Jordyn for 2 days. We went and stayed at the hotel in Coalville. It is way too far from my home. The kids love to swim in hotel. I love free breakfast and Wi-Fi. Derek love 2 separate queen beds. We always kick at each other in our bed. We wanted to have a good sleep without bother each other. The kids were slept in their play pen boxes. The kids love to play with Taylor. Wyatt started officially trained potty. He has been keeping it dry for 2 weeks! Yahoo! Eh, look at me. I lost 20lbs and didn't went down any more now. So I need to start to active exercise again. I want to buy mountain bike and ride a bike around the Cache Valley. I was homesick when I was in Coalville. I miss Logan very much. When we arrived home, I was so happy. We had fun time together with families. After baby blessing, we went straight headed back home. I didn't want to stop by my parents' house. We don't have really fun activity in Coalville. Just had a basic fun hang out with our families. We stayed at Jayden and kelli's house for a few hours.

Dentist

 Yep! I got another retainer. Again. It's helping my bottom teeth to get straight and stay together. I don't want to get them to be apart, because of my toothless on bottom left side. I got infected on my baby tooth, so I had to get it out before it's getting serious problem. It's happened in 2010.

 Wyatt's first cavity filling on bottom left tooth. He will have a second one on June 28 on bottom right side. Oh boy, he loves to eat sugar thingy.

 His lip was swelling. He was playing with it by his teeth chew.

Here my retainer. It's clear color. I had purple with pooh bear on retainer for top teeth before. I never have a retainer for bottom after I had braces. I have new retainer since last week Monday (June 4). My bottom teeth was in pain for 4 days straight. I was so suffer and in pain. I had headache too. Now it's all better, finally! I will wear it for rest of my life. I only can wear it at night time at bedtime. But right now, I have to wear 24/7 until my next visit with dentist. >_

Lamb Booties

 I knit the soles (2) with standard yarn then I woven a buttercup yarn instead knit with it. It's difficult to see with that kind of yarn.

 Kelli wanted pink for Jordyn. I knit them in normal size.

 This is for Taylor's. I used two yarn held together to made it thick fabric. Toddler is wild age. I am happy with the result.

 Kelli also wanted purple for Taylor.

I test them with Emma. She's great modeling. She loves to wear them. She was upsetting when I took them off from her.

I used a bigger needle to get bigger size for toddler. I am so happy with result that I had planning it. Kelli gave me the yarns. I started it on June 3. I finished them on June 10. It's took me a week to knit them. They are very quickly projects.

We Are Silly

Ha ha! These are so precious moments! Derek were at his work(he was working double shifts). I was like- why not to play with our webcam on computer with the kids. It's fun.

Coby Kyros Tablet Cover

Ta-Da! Done! Hope this treat us well. I like the colors together. I have none left to say right now. I am just happy that this project is done.

Outside and Project

 I was thinking about which place to take the pictures of my projects. I looked outside, ohh, it's looking so happy weather outside. But I don't like hot. I do love summer. I don't like sweat. So outside in my backyard is good place to take the pictures.

 Emma took a slide down. We do have our own playground set.

 Wyatt was looking at the insects on our fence. I hate the bugs on fence because another side from our backyard have 5 horses. We, of course, enjoy to watch the horses. I love to watch when the horse lay down and "bath" on a dirty. I think that's cute and funny.

 This project I am making: a cover for our Coby Kyros tablet. The kids are keeping drop it. I don't want it to be worse and break. We tried to find good cover for our tablet at the stores but the price is crazy. I don't want a case that looks like a book. I want cover that is protect around the tablet. It's easy to use than pull a tablet out from sleeve then put it away in sleeve over again and again.

 Look at the kids, they are "WHEE" swing and have fun time.

 We also have seesaw too. We bought it from Walmart.

I called them to look at me when I am taking a picture for them.

Amy's Baby Blanket

 Done! It took me 2 1/2 months to finish this a baby blanket. It is for Amy's first baby girl in July. I like to knitting a baby blanket than an adult blanket. I love the lace. I wish I have it for my son when he was a newborn. Oh well. I am hoping that I could knit a baby blanket for my brothers' babies in the future.

 I knit a center square in garter stitches. Then I knit a eyelet border. I didn't want to separate the lace from a blanket. I wanted to knit in the same time for border. I don't want to spread a center square out and measure then back it on the needles. Save my pain butt and my sore hands. So I knit, pick up the border's stitches, decease the two stitches from the border to get back normal number stitches, finally then, do it again in next 2 rows. Just do it again after again repeats. The corners: I knit a short rows.

 Yarn: A Pound of Love-- Lion Brand. Color: soft cream. I like soft cream better than a bright white that burns my eyes, ha ha.

 Phew! Honestly, I am so happy that blanket is done. My hands are killing me. I had to wore the hands braces. I recently bought Bengay cream for my sore hands. It's heavy and big blanket. My hands were not used to knit a big project.

---I love knitting. I think I've probably mentioned that at some point on this blog. I really love knitting. I like all sorts of things about it. I like how ridiculously cool it is to use such incredibly simple tools to make such incredibly complex things. I love how you can make 3D objects.  I'm head over heels for how bizarre it is that every stitch pattern is driven out of the idea of one stitch, made so it faces the front or the back. I can't get over how great it is that knitting uses yarn (I love yarn) and that there's so many kinds of yarn. I love that it's an act of creation, when you knit you're literally making something that was not there before, and how cool is that?  I even love (most days) that knitting is sort of slow.  

Knitting is a time container. You knit something, and it's this huge investment of your time, and when you're done you can look at it and be all proud that you did it, and it took so long and there's like-a hundred of the hours of your life jammed into that thing, and you did it all. If society had proper built in respect for knitting, or we lived in a culture where every time you finished a project and showed them to your friends, they all said: "Amazing! Look at that! Those took 30 hours to make. Can you even believe that? 30 hours. This is art man. You're a crafts person".  - If we lived in that culture, you wouldn't mind how long it took to make the projects. You really wouldn't. (Well, maybe you would around Christmas, but that's a delusion I can't help you with.) 


All I'm saying is that usually, I don't mind how long knitting takes, and in fact, I mostly like it.  When I finish something, I say all that great stuff to myself, and I know exactly what I made is worth, and I feel totally proud that I stuck with it, and that I'm the sort of person who is happy to put a hundred hours in something and bring something that valuable into being. Every phase of a project brings something new into focus, and holds me in its thrall.

I totally think that. I think it all the time, and it's something I love about knitting.---                                  
                                              -Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Amy's Baby Blanket

The blanket called a grandma lace blanket. I  love lace. I started this blanket last March and have been working ever since. I have one side left to go then I am OFFICIALLY done! It's for Derek's cousin Amy. It's her first baby girl. Its due in July. I like to knit/crochet a baby blanket than an adult blanket. I am hoping that Amy would love this blanket. I choose color white because I want unisex blanket so she can use it for a girl and a boy.