Pattern: Shivaree Throw (Ravel it!)

Yarn: Red Heart Soft Yarn in Leaf, 5.25 balls

Needles: US 7

Started: September 3rd

Finished: November 21st

Lyndsay will complete the other half, and we will join them together to create the blanket for mom!

Up next, something orange!

Since we have so many sets of lights, the easiest way to store them from year to year is on a spool.  We put that spool on a broom between our recycling and yard debris cans and unspool the lights.  This is the best and fastest way we have found to store our lights from year to year and avoid tangles.  (This process makes putting the lights away much easier too.)

Once wound off the spool, we stage them (G is all about staging) on the driveway in individual sets.  Once we have a few, we chuck them up onto the roof for installation.

Then, it is up onto the roof to get these puppies attached!  (I was up there most of the time too, just not while I was taking photos.)

In the following picture, please ignore the pumpkin on the porch, which has yet to be removed following Halloween.

And of course, because it is G, here he is checking his email on his iPhone while on the roof.

Are you as excited about Christmas as we are? 

We saw bears.

We saw eagles.

We saw penguins.

We saw a giraffe.  (Doesn’t that dead tree thing look like another giraffe?)

J tried to eat the seal exhibit.

We saw fish.  (Okay, you can’t see any here, but I promise there were some!)

We missed the real baby elephant, but we did see a small elephant!

And we learned that J is much smaller than bears.

Overall, we had a great Saturday.  Did you?

I didn’t realize how much he needs a haircut until this photo. 

If you know us, you will not be surprised that G decided to be a Jedi Knight and then J was Yoda of course!

The evening was tough for J, so he took a little Yoda nap on the couch. 

I think J really liked being part of the Star Wars world.  He loves the taste a light saber!

Pattern: Little Angel Top (Ravel it!)

Yarn: Debbie Bliss Cashmerino in Magenta, 3 balls

Needles: US 2 and 3

Started: June 16th

Finished: October 16th

Geez.  4 months is a long time to complete a baby sweater, I know!  But blocking it just seemed like too much work.  Overall, this was fun to knit, and I am pleased with how it came out.  I might re-block the bottom, it is a little pointy from my first, lazy, blocking job.  We will see.

I can’t wait to see the new baby (soon to arrive) for whom this is for!

If J is repeating a word but doesn’t know what it means, does it count as his first word?