Sorry that I haven’t been posting much the end of May we welcomed an English Pointer/Aussie/Border Collie puppy into our home named Wren Yardley Yeo. He has been an absolute delight but as you can imagine flipped our world upside down. Now that he is finally sleeping all the way through the night I can get back to blogging, knitting, sleeping (=. Here are some snapshots of our new baby!
So I realize we have now just had Mothers Day but this Spring has been busy. Between a late Easter, early Mothers Day and lots of snow mixed with sun it has been an odd little season. Here are a few things I knitted for Easter. The mothers day crafts as well as the spring garden pics will be coming in the next couple of days. Happy Spring!
It’s Spring in Utah so we get everything from heaps of snow to 60 degrees back to back. Our office is consistently cold year round so I was super excited to find this easy fingerless glove pattern at Blazing Needles. http://www.blazing-needles.com/blog/item/7-the-beauty-of-ragtop-mitts The yarn I used was the Malabrigo Rios, it is super soft and fuzzy…however tangles like crazy!
So Rob and I and many of our friends are back to playing WOW. Rob and I were really into raiding a few years back but have been playing casually off and on for 6 years! Crazy how times flys… anyways it is winter and snowy, there is a new expansion and we have caught the WOW bug again. We are also back to raiding but in a much more casual way, 10 mans instead of 40 mans and with mainly our friends; 2 nights a week instead of 5… Below is a picture of my character and screen shots of our first three raid boss kills. There are 12 bosses total in this latest expansion. It has been a lot of fun to play with our friends and Rob’s brother in Japan…it’s almost like they are just in the other room instead of 100’s of miles away.
So we have three crazy cats (=. Keoke is the youngest (8 or 9) and is a short haired black cat that Rob rescued as a kitten from a job site back in the day when he was in construction. Soje is a long haired ginger cat and is the oldest at 11, Loki is a Himalayan and is 10 years old. On Friday I took Loki and Soje in for their checkup’s and haircut. Soje is now 15.5 pounds! Good thing we have her on diet food…seems to really be working… At any rate they are super cute and cuddly and here are some hilarious pics of our fuzzballs.
Sorry for the three posts in one day! While I had a second to spare I wanted to get these pictures to you. This last weekend was lovely and almost 60 and sunny. We have so many birds that come to our feeders. These are a few pictures of a flock of doves that visit our house daily. I wish I had a better picture so you could get an idea of how many are actually at the feeder…certainly over 20. I also am posting a picture of my coworker Lynne and her new baby boy Leo. He is wearing a cute eggplant hat that I knitted for him in the Fall. He is such a cutie!
Feb 9 was my Step Mom’s Birthday. Because she reads the blog I waited until after she received her package before I added these pictures of her gift and card to the site. The card is inspired by a published card in CardMaker Magazine’s March issue. The scarf is made from a ShiBui silk yarn. The pattern is simply a knit pattern. I love that yarn so much and am saddened to learn they are no longer making it!
Mandy and I attended another of Sheryl Shields card making workshops. Below are the cards that I made at her workshop followed by the Valentines that I created after being inspired by her workshop. Enjoy (=.
Rob and I had a lovely dinner New Year celebration with Naji, Mandy, Chris, and Kim. We are blessed to have such amazing friends! (Aimee, Greg, and Ryan wish you were in this state! You were missed!)
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In honor of the Chinese New Year (February 3rd) Rob and I are having a dinner party for a few of our friends. I decorated with paper lanterns that light up and as of now were thinking of serving sushi (yes I know this is Japanese…but so tasty and healthy!). Last week I went to a Chinese New Year party at a shop called Lotus that was held by my friends mom who is a feng shui designer. There was a dancing dragon that we were able to feed our red money envelopes to for good fortune for the upcoming year. It was so much fun and made me think that one year Rob and I will have to go oversees to see the authentic version of this celebration.
