New Favorites

I have a few new favorites to share with you!

I am not, usually, a candy bar person, but Moose Munch Dark Chocolate Bar is amazing! The best candy bar ever! Why you ask? Lets start with a bar covered in rich dark chocolate with a rich, buttery, truffle fudge center mixed in with one piece of buttery caramel corn, toffee and almond. Not to over crowd your chocolate sensation. Wrapped in a paper wrapper with a plastic tray to protect your little sweet treat!

Best of all this Harry and David treat is now available at your local Target store!



I love, love , love Soap and Glory bath products! My favorite is Calm One, Calm All bubble bath. It's surprising they still have it on the shelf after I have been in the store. All their products are great. I just bought the foot cream for my sore foot and it is wonderful. Here is my travel bag--is it not the cutest bag ever??



This UK brand is available at your local Target. How do they do it? Check out the Boots make-up line.


I haven't knitted for two weeks, but I am going to start this afternoon. I have some projects to finish up and hopefully won't get distracted and start something new! Although, I am eyeing STR Lucy, so you never know. On the foot front, I have progressed to a walking boot (two weeks early)! My foot and ankle is pretty sore to walk on right now, but everyday I keep trying.

Pumpkin Royalty

My Cousin Walter is now the King of Pumpkins in Washington State! You go Walt! Walter and his son Brad grow very, very large pumpkins and are quite successful. They have the largest pumpkin in Washington State at a whopping 1,467 pounds. Now that's a pumpkin. Here is the Seattle Times article.



Now that's a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.


Some people go to a pumpkin patch we go to Central Market in Shoreline to see the big pumpkins. Check it out and visit a great store too!




The kids really enjoyed all of the beautiful pumpkins--big and small.



NB and her modeling pose, she's such a ham.



John Stanford had their Annual Move-a-thon fundraiser for school. The kids all had a great time and I had a good time on the Burke Gilman trail on my knee scooter. My knee IS a bit sore tonight.

By George, There's an Arch in my Foot!

There's an arch in my foot! Some of of you may think that isn't a big deal, but for someone who has had rigid flat feet her whole life it's AMAZING! Amazing what doctors can do. I have four more weeks on crutches and then a walking boot. I am up and around a lot more these days. I even took NB to get her very first library card and lunch at Taco Time. She was so excited about the library card, but more excited about us spending the day together.



On the knitting front, I have finished half of the Log Cabin socks and I really need some help winding the other skein of yarn, husband may get a quick lesson on using a swift. Great pattern. Love knitting socks with bulky yarn. Goes very fast. I also did a pair of socks for Colin and a pair for NB (almost done with the first sock), working on a Chevron Scarf and Backyard Leaves Scarf. Yes, I have had a case of cast-on-itis! I do hope to finish all of these projects fairly soon.



Look how pretty that pattern is!

All About Orange

I started a new pair of socks, Twisted Tweed with Cherry Tree Hill yarn in the colorway Sugar Maple. I am not sure how much I like the look of this sock. I am not in love with it. The color is growing on me. I am usually not an orange color person, but I have looked around and I do seem to knit a few orange items--Clapotis, Chevron scarf, and now the Twisted Tweed. It's funny because it isn't my favorite color, but the color always seems to make me happy. Could I be a closeted orange person??





On the foot surgery--I am feeling okay. All the pain medicine certainly does help. I am now starting to feel the areas that were operated on. Little twinges of break through pain. My days are spent laying in bed reading, watching tv (thanks to Netflix), knitting, design tutorials... hopefully the post makes sense as I wrote it right after pain medicine.

Foot Surgery...Ouch!

Well, today was the big day! I had four foot surgeries at once--lengthening of the Achilles, moving bones, building a wedge in my arch and making my foot level. It went very well and I am feeling pretty good, at the moment, due to pain medications and a nerve block. I have to stay in bed for two weeks, two months non-weight bearing and two weeks in a boot!

The day started with a bit of confusion, the doctors office moved up my foot surgery and no one called to tell me. The buggers called at 7:02 AM with the "Where are you for your surgery" call. The admitting nurse told me 10 AM! Off for a quick shower and I am not going without good hair! When I arrived there they had me sign forms and I was out. Surgery at 8 AM and done at noon. All you doctors out there no foot elevation jokes (hang your foot high on the wall) to someone coming out of anesthesia!! Too groggy for a sense of humor, especially dry doctor humor.



My doctor did comment on very cute jammies! As you can see I have my remote and knitting! Lot's of time to catch up on reading, movies and knitting! I also brought up my sketch book, so maybe I will have some things to share with you very soon.

Land of Nod did it again! The cutest bean bags EVER and the most comfortable for after foot surgery. Colin will have it after I am done! Heck I might have to keep it :)



Very cute picture of my cute family! Colin loves his food, especially his English Hob Nobs! Chris he has good taste!

First Day of Kindergarten

NB had her first day of kindergarten at John Stanford International School! She did great. I did well also. Good thing I had pre-k to make it easier. Her school is language immersion. Half the day in English and the other half math and science taught in Spanish. I am sure we will hear spanish conversation before long!

Oregon Beach Vacation

We had a wonderful vacation on the Oregon Coast in Waldport about 20 miles south of Newport. We had a lovely house right on the beach. Plenty of water for NB and sand for Colin.



Colin went into the water on our first day and kept falling in the waves. He didn't like the motion of the water one way and the sand the other. Here is the only picture of him near the water!



Here is Colin happy as a clam playing in the sand!



He loved running up and down the sand dunes! I got my workout chasing him.



NB on the other hand is a Surfer Girl!! She couldn't get enough and literally could stay out there all day. Me, I have a low tolerance of the cold northwest water.





We made a visit to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. It is a great place and I would highly recommend it!



I did manage some good knitting time! I started the Monkey Socks from Knitty. They are a wonderful knit and I have to say I am really enjoying knitting them.



Smooshy yarn is very nice for this pattern.



A colorful sunset!