Friday, August 31, 2012

Hallelujah!

Today, three weeks later, I finally have a fixed computer! This old thing has been through a lot and I probably just should have bought another one but if I can get six months more out of it, I'll take it!
OK, I  have a lot to catch up on so I'm doing one of those great picture posts!

Daryl holding up Alex's finished stocking. For the folks who know my sister's kids,
I think he looks like Cedar's twin in this picture!
Aunt Becca came to visit us! She is practicing holding a new baby again!
The extension office had a baby shower for Alex!
Thank you extension office family!!
We borrowed Grandma Glo's van for a weekend.
Daryl had so much room he didn't have to close his umbrella!
Daryl turned 4 last week! His party is this weekend but
we did take him for some ice cream on the big day.
Cousin Bennett was Baptised and that was another photo op
to put the July cousins side by side! We had a great day hanging out with
family at Bennett's new pad!
Topeka got a Menards...Kelly was thrilled...the only thing we bought was a
new bone for Vinny. So Vinny was pretty happy about Menards too!
The last picture of Alex as a whole man.
He was in the doctor's waiting room before his procedure...





 

Friday, August 24, 2012

We Are Still Here!

Sorry for the lack of updates but my computer died! It is still getting worked on, so no pictures this time. But I have lots of pictures to share when I do get it back, fingers crossed today!
The laptop is four years old and has been our computer every day for all of those years. It has also survived spills and being dropped. The spills is probably what did it in as first the hard drive was bad and then the old water damage to the mother board is what really shut it down.
We replaced the hard drive and the computer repair people think they can fix it to where it does not need a new mother board. If they can do that we are in business. If that needs replaced we will probably just need a new computer! (Lets hope we don't have to do that)
OK, enough about our computer woes!!
Cute Daryl story: So we are borrowing Grandma Meerpohl's van because we are going to have some company this weekend and it will be better to haul everyone around. I put Daryl in the van this morning and he notices the back up camera showing on the display when I'm pulling out of the garage. That is when the commentary started all the way out of the driveway (we have a long driveway).
Daryl "Look out mom, whoa look out, I think you are going to hit the light, oh no I think you are going to hit the mailbox, Look Out mom! OK, we made it.)
The relief in his voice when we were in drive and the camera went off made me laugh for about two blocks!
Alex update: We weighed him this morning and our 5 week old baby is eleven pounds. Yay!
Finished his Christmas stocking and can't wait to post pictures of all the knitting. Hopefully in the next post!!

Friday, August 3, 2012

What was I thinking?

I would like to think that since Alex is my second child I kinda know what to expect this time around. Obviously, I have conveniently forgotten that even though you are home all day you get absolutely nothing done! Seriously folks if I get a shower before noon we are doing good.
So I then ask myself, why did I think I was going to get a bunch of knitting done?
I'm not talking about one easy project that I had planned. Below is the list of things I planned to knit on maternity leave. Not only did I plan to knit these things I announced these intentions to all of my knitting friends and on Ravelry. PS-To throw some salt in the wound I tend to forget I'm a slow knitter.
This would be awesome if it was a hat...but it's not a hat.
1.) Christmas Stocking for Alex
Need to finish the back then knit around arm holes and neck hole. Don't know if I have enough yarn...
2.) Handspun vest
3.) Que Sera Cardigan sleeves (body was done a year ago) (No picture of this one because I haven't even dug it out of the yarn closet!) (I love parenthesis)
When this is done that whole cake of yarn will be used!
4.) Nuvem Shawl (this is a monster of a shawl)

ummmmmmm ya I don't see any of these things getting done so I started spinning some new fiber!

Cute Daryl Story: Whenever Daryl holds Alex he always asks if I will take his picture, he thinks that is the only reason he would hold his brother!