I feel the need to elaborate on my recent abandonment of our blog.
Its a simple easy reason.

We have been busy. VERY busy.

I have been building a website for a friend of mine, and had photoshoots almost every other weekend since January, and now that spring is here, I foresee even MORE shoots coming my way.
Ill throw some more pics up soon, i promise!

The dogs had a blast
Kids had a blast
Parents had a blast

Florida was cold

Ill elaborate later.

I cant repeat how much i love socks.
A friend to Knit with made these lovely darlins and my feet are calling to them, though i do wish they were more colorful.

Woah is me who can only knit rectangles..

This week we celebrated Nathans birthday with some awesome sushi.

We also celebrated it with our refrigerator dying on us as well, and to top it all off, we lost all the grocery in there as well. So we are shopping for a new one. I am excited.

I had just gotten home from a Central Ohio Subarus meet and was posting on our car forum when I heard explosions. Those were the tires exploding on a car that had been set on fire on our block.

That’s scary stuff, because an arsonist just hit the other side of Hillard Rome Road a few weeks ago.

We spoke to the officer on scene and he said it wasn’t probably the same guy because that guy was only on foot and this was too far way. I dunno, but it definitely worries me. I hope they catch this guy.

We walked over and talked to the parents of the owner in the morning. They said that the police found some kind of paraffin wax behind the front seat and a gasoline soaked rag. The rear window was broken out to place the them in the car. The car was a Dodge Magnum.

The whole front of their house is melted, as well as the American flag set out for their son who is in the Air Force over seas. He had just bought the car.

*VIDEO* Arsonist Car Fire *CLICK*

I have been growing my own little garden. I have never had a green thumb, nor do i think these will live. Darnit though, im trying.

Now, the reason i bring up gritty gritty dirt is because we had a rally cross today. The track was dry, and and windy. The dirt was EVERY WHERE! All of the guys were using their shirts as dusk masks while workin the course. Nathan who wore mostly white, was just a filthy mess.

I managed to avoid most of teh dirt by hiding out in the SCCA truck, Moby, and helping out with timing and scoring. The interior of the RS is covered from dust from the track. It was just a terrible mess. Im glad im not the one who will be cleaning out that car.

I’d like to introduce you to my eldest child, Mazey.

Mazey has a hard life. Its just awful. Can you SEE the pain in these eyes?

Thats because today was the worst day ever…. since the last time.

Today was bath day. The horror of it all. The water.. the soap.. OH NO!!

This week, i am in West Virginia visiting one of my best friends, Danielle. This week, Danielle married her “merf”, Jake.    Danielle and Jake have been together for four years, and are such a cute couple.  He is an awesome Chef.

Jake is an Enigma. (or so he says) I tried to interview Jake and he started naming off the things that surrounded him to describe who he was, like the bag of popcorn he was eating, the Coke he was sipping, and then he offered up ” I like Hulk Hogan!”   What he isnt mention is the fact that he loves their kitty “Über Flaum” and “Princess Buttercup” otherwise known as Butters. They follow him everywhere, and love to nuzzle him as much as he nuzzles back.

Jake and Danielle are a happy couple that fit togther like two peices of puzzle.  It made me happy to see her so happy.

I will be posting pics from their wedding in the next day or so.

The reason for the delay?

This little guy.

Meet Owen.

Our new little nephew.

Carrie and Ted (SiL/Bil), are returning from Russia with this bundle of joy.  He is their second child, and we are VERY excited to welcome him into his new surroundings.

Owen is (i believe) 19 months old,  from all the pics i have received of him, looks like quite a happy little boy, and eager to have a good time.

Elena is eager for her Mom to come home, but has been enjoying her time with her grandparents, and had a great time with Uncle Nathan at COSI on saturday.  We then came home and watched Finding Nemo,  and did a craft for Owens arrival.

(Pics to come, when i am home with all of them, later this week!)

When Nathan and I met, we always had very traditional first dating, first married Vdays.  We would go out to a fancy resturant and have a lots of wine and he’d give me a lovely piece of jewelry and roses or orchids. After a few years of wooing, we both decided that it was too close to Christmas having ended to be spending tons of money on frivolous things like that and have opted to just getting each other something fun for each other and experiment on dinner together with something HE picks from the cookbooks.

So far this has worked out well.

This year, I technically got Nathan his welding class, and all his gear. (OK, so i purchased it, but he paid for it.. the woes of being a housewife). He in turn got me one of THE niftiest gadgets on the market today. One i have pined for since last summer when i was opened to the world of the awesomeness that is this gadget.

If the Garmin GPS was the single most important thing to keep Nathan and I from strangling each other on the highway, this will be the second part to that equation.

I give you

THE IPHONE.

Look I can go to the INTERNET while he’s driving!!

So when Dirty Helen tricks us, we can outsmart her and look up better directions.

Please excuse my dirty dusty, work radio, that i dock my Ipod in when, i am in the kitchen.

Curious Bird has up for sale some of her hand drawn screen printed tees for kids. I for one am partial to the turtle.

Also, i was playing around with some actions i got form PW’s website and used a lovely picture of Firecracker from Larksongs blog. Firecracker is one of my favorite kids, as well as one of the cutest.

This is how this photo started.

I get very bored with white walls. Why would anyone want white walls? Or off white.. seriously, there are 32million colors out there, surely every wall doesnt need to be white!? Well, despite my DH not wanting any part of painting, I have managed to paint three rooms of our house.

Our Bedroom is the most recent of my triumphs.   I painted it purple. Do you sympathize with my husband? How girly can a bedroom be? Well I manned it up a bit too. Its a nice slightly romantic calm place to be. I cant wait for it to be 100% done.  Curtain rods are my downfall, and despite all my efforts to install it properly, wall anchors are fighting me every step of the way .

Mur enjoying the new artwork, and Lola taking a nap (big surprise).

The one project we have left to do, that is an all over the house project is to replace alot of our carpet with a good sturdy laminate flooring. The color we have picked out actually matches the closet doors (which will eventually be painted black after the floors are installed). The color suits us, and its not too dark, and not too light. Should go well with really any decor.

Holidays have kept me busy, i have lots to write about, and not enough hours in the day!

Subjects coming.

Wilton Class

Scarf still not done, but moving along

Some photography stuff, not sure what though yet..

and

What christmas was like.

While i am thinking about this, i must mention this.

I love themes.

But i will never have just one, so dont be surprised when you come back and its changed.

Currently i am in love with the notebook one we are currently using, but it doesnt support widgets (how silly is that??)

So i am on the verge of ripping into the code to see if i can fix that, but, with so many projects and so little brain power for them all, who knows it it will happen.

So for now, i will see if my Amazon widget works in a post.

I love socks. I love fun sucks, i love pretty socks, i love warm socks, toe socks.. Whatever, I just love em.

Anthropologie has very pretty socks and other hosiery..

One of my friends is starting out in the internet world. She is a SAHM and is trying to get a book published for knitting childrens clothing. (pattens ideas, and what not) The publishers she talked to, said she needed to be more in the know, in the internet blogger knitting world.

Soooo.. i am helping her to create this. She is also learning about computers. (this has been fun, i swear)

So anyways.. Its just up and running in the last few days, and she will be putting up knitting patterns, homemade ideas for recipes, and school lessons for her home-schooling.

www.larksongknits.com

Feel free to check it out..I’m still working on it.. trying to get a logo, and a theme she is 100% happy with. She will also soon be getting an Etsy Shop..

Playing around inEtsy, and came across a link to Amy Butler Designs. She has kits too, of her fabric so you can just make what you want with the fabrics. I thought that was pretty cool.

I love this knitting bag.