Thursday, January 28, 2010
Contest at Chicken Stitches Blog
I found this blog a couple of months ago and just love it. It's by a lady who lives in New York City. She is Jewish and originally from Russia. She loves to knit and crochet just like me! She is having a contest on her blog to celebrate her anniversary in the blogging world. You can win some beautiful stitch markers, row counters, and yarn. What could be better? LOL. Check it out. There is a link to on my side bar. Just click on Chicken Stitches. She has some interesting stories, pretty projects, and beautiful kids. :0)
Last Week Of January
Where does the time go? Already at the end of the first month of the year. Almost 6 months since I last posted. A lot going on I guess.
Sophia started 1st grade in August. She's loving it. She has a great teacher. Sophia loves her. She gets upset if she has to miss school. She is reading and writing better and better. Makes things a little bit harder for Bernie and I if we are trying to hide something. The days of spelling things out to each other are about over. But it is so much fun to hear her read. She loves to write too. She loves notebooks. She has a couple of composition books that she used to color and pretend to write in. Now she writes stories. Some of them are a hoot. Maybe I should start posting some of her stories. Probably be more interesting than what I post. Sophia also lost her two front teeth right before Christmas. I finally had a kid that could sing "All I want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth." It was cute. She is still doing gymnastics and is loving it. But we decided not to do cheer leading. One thing at a time right now. She is growing and learning and is a great kid. Cute as can be a getting funnier and funnier and goofier and goofier.
Tyler has spent the last 6 months getting all his paperwork and interviews done to go on a mission. It seemed like a never ending process. I also think that he drug his feet for a little bit because of the enormity of the prospect. But he got everything done. He got his mission call 14 January. He is going to Edmonton Canada and leaves 17 March. We are very excited. He will be the first one in our family to go on a mission. Surprisingly, I'm not really nervous. Of course as a mom I will worry about if he's warm enough, getting enough to eat, and stuff like that. But overall I'm really not worried. I know that he will be taken care of.
Tyler also went on Trek this summer. For my friends who are not LDS, Trek is like a camping trip with the addition of reenacting the crossing of the plains by the handcart pioneers. They live and even dress as they did in the 1800's. It was a great experience for him. He had a great time. He was tired and hungry but had a great time. The area that they were at was gorgeous. He said that as they hiked along, he loved to look around at the scenery. They had great couple as their Ma & Pa. Cathy & Josh Skousen. Tyler was already good friends with them and made it nice for the Trek. At the end of the Trek Cathy pulled me aside to tell me how amazing Tyler was. She told me about how one night they were sitting around the fire talking about if they could have anything from home right then what would it be. She told me that everyone was saying things like their bed or pillow, stuff like that. When they got to Tyler, he said he would want his little sister. They missed each other so much when he was gone that week. We got to greet them as they came into "Salt Lake City". It was great. When they first came down the hill I tried to pick his group out. I was looking for our bishop. He is very tall and often towers over others in a group. So I thought that I could spot him easy. It was at this point that I realized how tall Tyler really is. He is not that much shorter than our bishop. They were almost right in front of us before I spotted them. He looked so grown up all of sudden. He had a week's worth of beard growth on him and looked so tall and tan (when we got home and he took a shower we realized that the tan was dirt LOL). Sophia ran to him and he scooped her up and just held her for the longest time. It was so sweet. Bernie and I did not get to really hug him or talk to him right away. He just wanted to hug Sophia. I can't be 100% sure but I do think that a couple of tears fell from his eyes as he just held his little sister. Sophia cried when he left for Trek and bugged me every day about when we were going to go pick him up. She did the same thing when he went to EFY two years ago and was gone for a week. I have no idea how Bernie and I are going to remain sane for the two years that Tyler will be gone on his mission. Sophia is going to drive us nuts. But it will be hard to see how much she's going to miss him. She has only been away for him for a week twice. And those were hard weeks for her. Will have to make her some sort of countdown calendar that will be fun but at the same time not overwhelm her about how long two years are. LOL. Wish me luck. LOL.
One of our dogs, Schatzi, had puppies at the end of September. She had 7! That is a big number for a mini schnauzer. She did great. It was an experience. I never helped a dog deliver puppies before. Neat but gross all the same time. Schatzi did great though. I am so grateful that I had my friend Jess here to help me. They are all very cute. She had 3 girls and 4 boys. All of them black with various white spots except for one. He is salt and pepper like his mama. With everything that has been going on here we have not advertised them yet. Getting that taken care of now. Hopefully will have them sold soon. One of the girls has already gone to Texas. So we have 6 left. They are cute and all but I am sooooo ready for them to find new homes. 8 dogs in one house is a bit too much. We considered keeping one but now we think 2 is enough.
Well, that's about it for general updates. Will try to post more often. Have some finished knitting projects that I need to take pictures of and post. Will be doing a lot of knitting for Tyler the next 2 years. Have to make sure that he stays warm.
Until next time...
Sophia started 1st grade in August. She's loving it. She has a great teacher. Sophia loves her. She gets upset if she has to miss school. She is reading and writing better and better. Makes things a little bit harder for Bernie and I if we are trying to hide something. The days of spelling things out to each other are about over. But it is so much fun to hear her read. She loves to write too. She loves notebooks. She has a couple of composition books that she used to color and pretend to write in. Now she writes stories. Some of them are a hoot. Maybe I should start posting some of her stories. Probably be more interesting than what I post. Sophia also lost her two front teeth right before Christmas. I finally had a kid that could sing "All I want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth." It was cute. She is still doing gymnastics and is loving it. But we decided not to do cheer leading. One thing at a time right now. She is growing and learning and is a great kid. Cute as can be a getting funnier and funnier and goofier and goofier.
Tyler has spent the last 6 months getting all his paperwork and interviews done to go on a mission. It seemed like a never ending process. I also think that he drug his feet for a little bit because of the enormity of the prospect. But he got everything done. He got his mission call 14 January. He is going to Edmonton Canada and leaves 17 March. We are very excited. He will be the first one in our family to go on a mission. Surprisingly, I'm not really nervous. Of course as a mom I will worry about if he's warm enough, getting enough to eat, and stuff like that. But overall I'm really not worried. I know that he will be taken care of.
Tyler also went on Trek this summer. For my friends who are not LDS, Trek is like a camping trip with the addition of reenacting the crossing of the plains by the handcart pioneers. They live and even dress as they did in the 1800's. It was a great experience for him. He had a great time. He was tired and hungry but had a great time. The area that they were at was gorgeous. He said that as they hiked along, he loved to look around at the scenery. They had great couple as their Ma & Pa. Cathy & Josh Skousen. Tyler was already good friends with them and made it nice for the Trek. At the end of the Trek Cathy pulled me aside to tell me how amazing Tyler was. She told me about how one night they were sitting around the fire talking about if they could have anything from home right then what would it be. She told me that everyone was saying things like their bed or pillow, stuff like that. When they got to Tyler, he said he would want his little sister. They missed each other so much when he was gone that week. We got to greet them as they came into "Salt Lake City". It was great. When they first came down the hill I tried to pick his group out. I was looking for our bishop. He is very tall and often towers over others in a group. So I thought that I could spot him easy. It was at this point that I realized how tall Tyler really is. He is not that much shorter than our bishop. They were almost right in front of us before I spotted them. He looked so grown up all of sudden. He had a week's worth of beard growth on him and looked so tall and tan (when we got home and he took a shower we realized that the tan was dirt LOL). Sophia ran to him and he scooped her up and just held her for the longest time. It was so sweet. Bernie and I did not get to really hug him or talk to him right away. He just wanted to hug Sophia. I can't be 100% sure but I do think that a couple of tears fell from his eyes as he just held his little sister. Sophia cried when he left for Trek and bugged me every day about when we were going to go pick him up. She did the same thing when he went to EFY two years ago and was gone for a week. I have no idea how Bernie and I are going to remain sane for the two years that Tyler will be gone on his mission. Sophia is going to drive us nuts. But it will be hard to see how much she's going to miss him. She has only been away for him for a week twice. And those were hard weeks for her. Will have to make her some sort of countdown calendar that will be fun but at the same time not overwhelm her about how long two years are. LOL. Wish me luck. LOL.
One of our dogs, Schatzi, had puppies at the end of September. She had 7! That is a big number for a mini schnauzer. She did great. It was an experience. I never helped a dog deliver puppies before. Neat but gross all the same time. Schatzi did great though. I am so grateful that I had my friend Jess here to help me. They are all very cute. She had 3 girls and 4 boys. All of them black with various white spots except for one. He is salt and pepper like his mama. With everything that has been going on here we have not advertised them yet. Getting that taken care of now. Hopefully will have them sold soon. One of the girls has already gone to Texas. So we have 6 left. They are cute and all but I am sooooo ready for them to find new homes. 8 dogs in one house is a bit too much. We considered keeping one but now we think 2 is enough.
Well, that's about it for general updates. Will try to post more often. Have some finished knitting projects that I need to take pictures of and post. Will be doing a lot of knitting for Tyler the next 2 years. Have to make sure that he stays warm.
Until next time...
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