I need to knit this Ribby Cardi Pattern! Isn’t it so fabulous? I love the colors and everything.

Today at Target we found the coolest thing for $1: a dvd containing 8 full length episodes of Gumby. For ONE DOLLAR! As I type, my little movie-aholic is indulging.

I also started on a new scarf for my cousin Alyssa. The yarn is a pain in the butt to knit with, but just look at it. How could I not use it?

And finally, for those of you who have asked, I’m working on prices for my scarves. I’m trying to come up with a way to make it affordable for you, but worth my time. If anyone has any suggestions on prices, I’m open to them.

Imagine my excitement when I got an email from a friend telling me that my knitting was on dooce.com. I feel so honored, Dooce has been referred to as the “Queen of all bloggers”. Not to mention what this has done for my web stats. In the last 24 hours, I’ve had over two THOUSAND hits. I knew that people loved Dooce (how could you not?) but WOW.

So I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has stopped by, I know that I’ll never be as cool as Dooce, but maybe half as cool? While I don’t have a pop tart loving dog to dress up, I do get to fish many, many, many things out of the toilet. Afterall, sticking my BARE HAND in an icy bowl of toilet water to retrieve the beloved toy dog has got to count for something.

Saturday was Jennaniah’s birthday party. And we were brave enough to let her have her birthday party at our house. It turned out fine, but when I found out that she had invited close to 25 teenagers, I was worried.

Her birthday cake was chocolate with chocolate cream frosting and strawberries. Yummy! Please notice that she is also wearing her new birthday shirt and scarf.

Today she got her drivers liscense, which makes Jim’s life much easier. He no longer has to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to drive her, across town, to school.

It will be interesting to have a driving teenager in the house. At least I can send her to the store to buy milk if we run out!

Check this out. “The Sampler is an ever-changing monthly collection of samples, goodies, promos and more from indie crafters, record labels and zines – mailed right to your door!”

$25 for 3 months, not too bad. I’m saving up my pennies, the pennies that aren’t going for yarn that is.

edit: I see that they just raised their prices, $39 for 3 months, still not too bad. :)

I just really can’t believe that I’ve been married for 5 years. I feel so old saying this, but where did the time go? I can hardly fathom how much my life has changed since we were married.
When Jim and I got married, I was 18 years old. I worked at Palisade Pharmacy for under $8 an hour. Jim worked at a telemarketing company for like, $8.50 an hour. Our rent was $350 a month, all we had to pay was trash and electricity. We had virtually no debt.

Now we have a mortgage, a thriving business with 3 employees. A daughter who, no matter how many times I tell her, will not go get her pants on! A son who likes to bite everything, including aforementioned daughter. In a blink of an eye your life can up and change on you. I think I’m finally getting used to the fact that this is my life now. I’m learning that although it can be SO hard, it can also be SO good. In a time when some of my friends haven’t made it to their 5th wedding anniversary, I’m so very thankful that I have a husband that I love tremendously and that loves me back.

This is the sunset view from our room at Powderhorn.

Yesterday Jim had the day off so we were able to go on a bike ride. We parked at Riverside park. From there we followed the Colorado River, past Banana’s fun park and all the way up Redlands Parkway into South Rim subdivision. I can’t say how hard that was!! Two huge hills back to back to climb! The only good thing about climbing hills is coming down.
We came down from South Rim into the connected lakes section of the River Trail. We rode through that section, past the Albertsons shopping center and over the bridge on Grand back to Riverside Park.
It was about 10 miles in all. It was hard work (to quote our President), and if it wasn’t for the migraine that was threatening to present itself, it would have been really enjoyable. This time of year is my favorite, with the trees changing and perfect temperatures.
We’ll probably take that same loop tomorrow. The only part that makes us both nervous about it is for a short time while riding along Redlands Parkway, we’re riding next to oncoming traffic with no barriers to protect us. I have to force my overactive imagination to not overact.

Fiesta Blevinza was a huge success. And I’m exhausted! On top of 50 people coming through my house, I stayed up until 2:30 am Sunday morning and yesterday I woke up sick. The kids and I came down with some kind of stomach bug, which luckily was very short lived; only about 12 hours.

But now we’re all recovering and I’m trying to get the house somewhat put back together. I’ve got one more load of dishes left to do, (I refuse to hand wash dishes, they can just sit on the counter and wait until the dishwasher is finished running) and then I have some very filthy floors to mop. And the play room!! WOW! Talk about war zone.

Since I was pretty busy last week, I thought I’d catch up on all the fiesta projects that I did. These are all the party favors I made:

Popcorn balls. I made two batches and that was more than enough for everyone.

Chocolate covered pretzel sticks. I used 2 containers of Bakers Dipping Chocolate, 4.5 bags of pretzel rods and 2 large containers of sprinkles.

Suckers. I made two batches, I think one would have been plenty.

Cotton candy. I used up 5 lbs of sugar, which made 75 bags of cotton candy. Luckily for me (but not for my thighs) there were leftovers.

I’m posting from the office so there will be no pictures today. Sorry.

Yesterday I went with my friend Brooke to the yarn store in Palisade. Palisade is the little town about 20 minutes away from where we live now. Jim and I both went to high school in Palisade. Anyway, this shopping trip further confirmed that Brooke and I should not shop together. But somebody seriously tell me how we could say no to Jo Sharp yarn that was half off? Really?

So, I decided to start knitting something for myself. It’s a bias scarf, make out of seafoam, tan and brown stripes. And a tan hat to match. I’m really liking it, but I’m starting to get a little worried that I did not buy enough yarn. I do that frequently. Seriously though, what is enough yarn? I don’t think that I’ll ever have enough yarn and I think that is Jim’s biggest fear.

I’ve finished yet another hat.

This one is out of Brown Sheep Company’s Lambs Pride, Bulky in Ink Blue.

But more importantly is the very cool rice bowls that my sister MADE me for my birthday. I just have to share with the internet how terribly cool these bowls are and make sure everyone out there is jealous of what amazing rice bowls I have.

Did I mention that she made these?