Chairman of the Board

In the back of housing is the best hills and the kids love to go sledding back there. One of the kids' friends has a snowboard and let Ashley ride it. It's a special board I guess for kids, you don't need special boots, it has straps that you just put your feet into. So here she is having fun (she looks so grown up...so scary LOL).



Thank you, Kelli, for taking the pictures!!

Top Chef

Originally uploaded by knittymel

Tonight was the Blue & Gold Banquet for Cub Scouts, and Brett's den's theme was New Orleans, so he said we had to make jambalaya. He loves, loves loves, jambalaya. I told him he had to help, so he cut up the sausage & the chicken, and followed the directions and made it himself.


Edited to add: Here's their decorations


they were going to play "Jambalaya" by Hank Williams, but they hadn't practiced and there weren't enough words to go around, so after getting ready they did nothing...Oh well.

Designing women

I love to knit (and I think pretty much anyone that knows me knows this). I have made patterns up in my head - or sometimes not even in my head, just on the needles as I go, but I wouldn't say I designed anything. I made Ashley some wrist warmers for part of her Halloween costume (she was an 80s pop star - I said pop star, she said 80s, she's so awesome:)), and just made the pattern up. I didn't look for a pattern and really they were only ribbed, nothing special or difficult, but I did write it down with intents to blog the pattern... And here we are 3-4 months later and I still haven't. I've never written a design or anything, so I worry that it's not right or someone will find flaws with it.

I'm sure I'll get the courage to post it at some point...