Thought it was time to post again.

No much happening in my life except working a lot. It is our busy season at work as most of you know. I have to hire about 50 people for the holiday season.

I am almost done with my moms christmas present and it looks really good. I am also working on a pair of sock for her for christmas.

Here is a pic of Alley using the shawl I made for her. Kevin and Alley were going to the Marine Ball.


She got many compliments on it, She even had people asking were they could buy one.

We other than missing my girls terribly not much else going on

The Kids had the first family photos done in Washington

Here's the new family.

Alley and Ry are now in Washington State

We took Alley and Ry to the Airport @ 4:00 AM this morning. They were both so excited as neither of them have ever been on an airplane. Every time there was an announcement Ry would think her plane was going to leave without her. It was so cute. Alley called to me tell us that as she was walking to the gate they met the pilot and he told them to go to the cockpit on the plane. Then when they landed she called to let me know they also got upgrade to first class. What luck first flight and getting to fly first class. she will never want to fly any other way.

Started a pair of stranded mittens

These are the mittens I decided to work on. So far they are turning out really well. I decided on these for a couple of reasons, First I liked the pattern, second it called for knitpicks palette in White and Heather Iris. I have cream and the heather iris. So I decided what the hell lets try them. I started the mittens today after work and I have started the thumb gusset already. They are going really fast.

YEAH ITS DONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!

All I can say is I am very glad at this point I am done. I ended up buying another tube of beads, that would make 5 tubes it is crazy. I love it even with the mistakes I think it looks great.

70 more rows to go.

I have only 70 more row and the ends to do. I will need to get one more tube of beads as I only have about 20 more.

Met with the most amazing photographer tonight

We met with the most amazing photographer. She will do everything we want. VERY REASONABLE especially for a wedding photographer. Her work is beautiful. $500 for all the photos she take, plus very reasonable additional fees. We get full rights to all the photos. She is about 1/4 the cost of other photographers. She does more than just weddings too.

To see her work go to: www.decemberorpenphotographywherehob.shutterfly.com

My life

Well as many of you know I have a promotion at my job. this will require me to transfer to ToysRUs in bloomington, but I am looking forward to it. It will be a wonderful challenge. I will be the stores HR/DS. It will give me a lot of experience that I can use in the future.

Alley and I took Ry to the Children Museum the other day. We all had a wonderful day. Ry was very excited to see Clifford the Big Red Dog.



I think her highlight was aan area that she could sign along with songs on stage and be on camera.

Happy Easter everyone.

I will be heading off to get my oldest soon then we are going to hit church tonight to maybe beat the crowds. Tomorrow we are going to the mother in-laws for Easter dinner.

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter

Relieved but sorta sad

I am relieved that the test was negative, It did say that I should retake the test in 7 days to confirm that it is a true negative. I am sorta sad because the more I thought about having another baby I was not totally opposed to it.

Now I need to find out why I am almost two months late. Is there something wrong or is it just the major change in my activity level. So I think I will be making an appointment to the doctor to make sure all is well.

I am so excited

I know I have told a lot of you some of this, but here I go anyway. Since September (the start of my new job) I have going down 4 sizes in clothes. Now I finally jumped on the scale and found out that I have lost 20 pounds. To further this wonderful weight loss Rick and I just joined Golds Gym. I plan to work on losing more weight, strengthening my arms (this will help with my job), getting rid of the tire around my lower middle, and to get a butt (sitting on it for 16 years at a desk has made it pretty flat).

I hope to be down at least 2 more sizes by the time Alley gets married.

surgery update

Nick's surgery went well, It was suppose to take 3 hour and only took about 1 hour 45 minute. So far he is not in much pain to the point that he has only had one pain med. He should be home tomorrow, unless something changes. Thank to everyone thinking about him.

Surgery day

Well we are waiting to go to the hospital for Nicks surgery. As I expected Nick is really nervous. The surgery start about 1 pm and last about 3 hours. So we are going to have a very long day of waiting in store for us. We have to leave in a few minute need to be there by 11.

Thats all for now.