BSU Blanket

I finished my BSU Blanket, so I thought I would post a couple pics of it.



this is a super up close picture of the design, it is a basket weave pattern. It turned out so much better than I had expected

The final project!! yah! I finished it!! honestly I can't believe I made that. In July it will be a year since I learned how to knit, of course thousands of dishclothes and scarves later, I would hope I would be at this point in my knitting. Can't wait to learn how to knit outfits!!

Our Garden

Every year we plant a garden, and every year it gets bigger. This year due to our weekends being over booked, I ended up planting the garden, and picking out the vegetables by myself, we usually do all this stuff together. yes we are one of "those" couples :) but I love it :)

As you may be able to see in the very back I planted four different kinds of tomato plants, I can never remember exactly what kind of plants I planted so I try to leave the label thingy in the ground, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I've also got two jalapeno plants (for AJ, and salsa), a yellow pepper plant, bell pepper plant, onions, cucumbers, romaine lettuce, oregano, and basil. This is the first year we have planted onions, cucumbers, lettuce and oregano, see what I mean about our garden getting bigger every year, this year I just went all out. Really wanted to plant some melons, and strawberries, however with us moving sometime this year I didn't want to go way over board, and then I hear strawberries take a season before you get any. Can't wait till we have our own home!!! I'm super excited, I love going out to our garden and picking our veggies, plus we have everything to make a wonderful salad.

This is when our garden looks the best, with busy lives we seem to get behind on our weeding responsibilities.

A hobbie that I would like to learn is canning. We usually get tons of tomatoes and I would love to be able to can salsa.

let me introduce our two new Nephews, Wyatt and Tyler

Wyatt William Link born 5-8-09 6lbs 9oz's 20" long

AJ holding his new nephew. KC, AJ's sister had a pretty uneventful delivery with Wyatt, the Dr broke her water at 0800am and one hour later there was little Wyatt. However he did need to go back to the Dr's and have labs drawn for 4 days in a row, something to do with the whole Rh- factor. Yes I know, I work in the medical field, but honestly I know very little when it comes to OB/GYN stuff. Healthy baby boy otherwise, sleeps all the time!! still haven't seen him with his eyes open.

Tyler Dirk Bodily born 5-14-09 9lbs 6oz's and 22" long, and a 15" head!!!

Poor Melissa!!! she was induced at 0800am on the 14th and gave birth to Tyler around 1000pm that night! however she pushed for four hours straight, and when there was no improvement they ended up taking him C-Section. In the photo above he is only 14 hours old, and unfortunately in NICU. His first night he stopped breathing a couple times (sleep apnea) however he started breathing again on his own. And then since he is so huge his blood sugar dropped, so they felt it would be best for Tyler to be monitored in NICU. Thankfully he has been doing great ever since, all test came back normal and everyone is going home today!!! YEAH!!!

Tyler and I the following day, he's not a fan of the flash on a camera, poor little guy he just wants to eat and sleep. Can't wait to get to know the little guy some more!!!

What a huge difference in size between our two nephews, I'm sure hoping I don't have big babies like my sister. However she will be going straight for a C-Section with the rest of the babies she has, so at least she won't have to go through this ordeal again. AJ and I now have a combined total of 14 nieces and nephews!! 2 on AJ's side of the family. There are benefits of being the oldest in a large family, it just takes years to get there :)

Baby Wyatt's Blanket

So here's the finished product. I ended up taking the other blanket out (took it with me too work and one of the nurses helped me unravel it) we figured I had put 28 hours into making that one blanket. Oh well looks better now, I think. So this is baby Wyatts blanket, my first finished knitted blanket!! Now I'm working on an adult size blanket, BSU colors :) it's coming out fabulous, will post when finished with it.

hmmmmmm............Practice makes perfect

SOOOO I finished the blanket, and this is how it turned out. I am not impressed with it, however I plan on going to the store to get some more yarn, and start another baby blanket today. The only reason why I posted this, is so I can document my progress with knitting. So with that being said, now I know you really do need to count your cast ons, I did but not until the end, and I couldn't visualize how long that would be (222 cast on's, and I believe it's 130 rows approx) I thought I had the width down with only two skeins of yarn, it looks like I should've continued knitting another two skeins and it would've been a good size blanket. Didn't come up with that thought until I was casting off. Oh well, practice makes perfect right?? and this was my very first knitted blanket, I have to say it doesn't look as bad as some of my first crochetted blankets, of course I was 12 at the time :)