Hatching a Plan

J has been super busy with work and school lately.  He has also been rocking the daddy role especially since I am having bouts of pregnancy exhaustion since hitting the third trimester.  I don't know how he does it, he's an amazing man.  I want to to do something for him to let him know how much I love and appreciate him.  We both love hockey season.  Unfortunately the NHL preseason games have been cancelled due to the lockout so on Tues when we were suppose to watch our first preseason game we were disappointed with the bad news.  We do have a local AHL team though...so I was thinking I would get a sitter for E and take him out to a game.  I am going to have to look at the schedule first to see when we can go but fingers crossed we make it out before the new baby comes.  :)
In other news I got my swap partner for for the starbucks and yarn swap.  I'm pretty excited to get started, especially since I have to boogie on this package to get it out before Nov. 3rd which is 5 days before my due date.  I am hoping my energy holds out.  I can't believe its almost October...where has the time gone?
I am still working on E's fall coat.  I am on the sleeves.  I am hoping to finish it up and the baby blanket.  What I am more concerned about is it fitting...the hood seems a little small but I am holding out hope.  Off to start planning my spoilee's package and figuring out what we are doing today.  I believe it will involve grocery shopping...ew.

Busy and lovin it

I met my demise in sock sniper with a beautiful pair of Moss Rocks Socks in a fabulous color knit in Wildefoot yarn.  They are more of a teal color than in the picture and I think they will fit in really well with the rest of my sock collection.  

 My sniper also sent some wool wash and sock stitch markers.

I have been working on E's Roo coat.  Its slow going but I like it.  I hope she does too.  :)  No pictures yet I forgot to take one when I was doing a quick photo op with the socks.
I taught a yoga class yesterday and then we had a birthday party to go to.  I think E had a great time.  She loves hats and was enjoying her friends explorer hat.  I love her.  :)

Today J and Bob dog left on a camping trip with some friends.  They will be gone a couple days which sucks because I'll miss them but I am really happy they get to go out and have some fun.  E and I will probably go to a park today and then maybe do a little shopping.  Bath and Body Works has a sale on their candles today and I do love their fall scents.  I think I get my starbucks swap spoilee today.  I can't wait!  I think I need to treat myself to a pumpkin spice latte today since its our first girls day.  E got a present in the mail yesterday, a new spongebob dvd.  She loves that annoying little sponge, lol.  

No napping hell

We have entered napping dead space here.  My daughter is only 2 and she has pretty much given up on those pesky things called naps.  They interrupt her play time.  To counter her need to skip naptime I put her in her room for about an hour or so and sometimes she falls asleep (rarely) and sometimes she destroys her room (most of the time).  This is our routine because I need a break during the day.  I am hitting that third trimester exhaustion which sucks.  The low back pain has been coming back again which isn't just hanging out in the low back.  It can make walking really uncomfortable.  I think teaching my yoga classes has been helping some and the days I have off are throwing my body off.  Hopefully class tonight will help straighten things out.
On a more happy note the weather has been beautiful this week.  We turned the air off and opened all the windows.  Its amazing.  I LOVE fall.  It is definitely my season.  It is such a nice break from the ungodly heat we had this summer.  I can't wait for the leaves to change and fall to start showing up.  I love that the pumpkin spice latte is out and that there are pumpkins coming out at the stores now.
I cast on Roo for Evie in purple.  Its a cute little coat and I can't wait to see how it fits.  I am still slowly working on the baby blanket for nugget #2.  Its coming along nicely.  I'm over half way through.  Hopefully I'll continue to work on it because I have been going to bed super early at night.  My target got her socks and now I am just waiting to see where my SIP's will be coming from.  If I'm lucky I'll get them sometime soon.  If not then the death line will probably be pretty long, lol.  We shall see.  I'm off to enjoy some free time.  

Sniper no sniping

I finished my socks for my target last night.  I was determined because I spent all of yesterday paranoid my death socks would show up all day.  They didn't thankfully.  So I powered through and finished them up.  I sent these out this morning:

I hope she likes them and that they fit wonderfully.  It was dicey toward the end.  I was afraid I was going to run out of yarn but I had enough.  Now that those are off the needles hopefully I will live long enough to get some SIP's.  For those of you who aren't familiar with sock sniper just check out the page.  Its a lot of fun.

I cast on the Big bad baby blanket with some FABULOUS plymouth yarn baby alpaca worsted.  It feels so amazing I don't want to stop touching it.  Its for the nugget thats on the way.  Unless E steals it which I wouldn't blame her its pretty freaking amazing.  I might just keep adding to it for a while as the kids grow.  I should make E a baby blanket..or a toddler blanket since she is so big now.  I got the yarn on sale at my local yarn store.  If she finds more she told me she would set it aside.  I picked a nice brown yarn so it should be easy to add new sections to.  I want to make an afghan for our couch next.  A nice warm wool one.  :)

I am off for now.  I need to get back to this yarn.  :)

The weather website is a big fat liar!

I was suppose to go to yoga on the beach today as is our regular Labor day ritual for all the ymca yogi's.  This is the week they close down the building for a few days and then close down the studio so they can refinish the floors, paint, clean etc.  It has been raining out here...a lot.  Its flooded out my backyard and many of my neighbors yards twice in less than a week.  The second time worse than the first, due to the fact the ground was already saturated.  I was really looking forward to going to yoga today especially the outdoor class because its always a lot of fun.  Unfortunately after I had packed everything up and was getting E in the car, the sky opened up and dumped on us...again.  Damn.  So I decided well we are already in the car and ready to leave the house we may as well go somewhere.  So we hit up Target.  E got a toy laptop and a new season of Spongebob.  I thought it would be nice for all of us to have a new dvd to watch.  She loves the laptop too.  Its so cute watching her play with it.  Its looking overcast again and I am thinking it might rain AGAIN!  If it does we might have even worse flooding.  The ground is saturated so it might actually reach the garage this time.  No bueno!   

Some knitting love: 

 Dragonfly Fibers in the dragon base

 I tried to get a better shot of the colors here

 Sake by CookieA

 Sake front of leg

Sake back of leg

It's hard to believe but August is almost over.  Come Sept. 1st I will be competing in sock sniper.  I can't wait!  Its going to be so much fun!  I am trying to finish up the Sake socks before Saturday's cast on.  I am on the foot and almost at the toe.  The downside to Sake is that its SO hard to get it on my foot.  The design is really hard to wear because of the crosses around the leg drawing everything in.  I wish I would have increased a needle size.  I'm not sure how she got this to work on size 1 needles.  I'm not sure how it fits anyone.  I don't have large legs so I think its kind of crazy that they don't fit without effort.  That being said I think my sister has smaller legs than me so hopefully she can wear them.  More Christmas knitting out of the way I guess.  :)  I am off to finish off these socks and chill out because we have achieved naptime for the day!

Anybody got an ark?

 Its raining cats and dogs out here.  It just keeps starting and stopping.  We don't normally have "waterfront" property but today we do.  My hope is that it stays on that side of the fence.  I had to drive out in the crazy to teach my yoga class this morning.  Lets just say it wasn't fun, lol.  My car did not appreciate the weather but we made it there and then had a really easy going trip home.  If we are lucky we will get to go to dinner with our friends tonight.  Fingers crossed.

 I finished my Jedi Mind Trick socks the other day and finally took a picture.  They are pretty sweet.  Someday I will make the complimentary yoda cookies.  :)

With the Jedi Mind Trick socks out of the way and days before cast on for sock sniper I cast on Sake also by CookieA in a hand dyed yarn from knitpicks bare fingering weight yarn, dyed by the fabulous setembrina during ravellenics.  She kindly sent me the skein when I admired it.  I love it even more in person and knit up.  Such fabulous fall colors!  :)
I didn't make it to the yarn store today maybe sometime next week.  :(  The weather was too dicey and I didn't want to get stuck out there in the elements.  They might not even be open today.

Busy Busy Day

Our morning started bright and early just before 6:30am.  I taught pilates, which from me was more of a core -centric yoga class.  Apparently it was good though because I had one woman tell me it was really hard, like the regular instructor usually does, which she likes.  Then I followed that up with yoga.  E actually napped today which was awesome.  I think it had a lot to do with her very early wake up this morning which I actually didn't have to do.  She woke up all on her own and woke me up before the alarm went off.  We played a lot outside.  I used the push mower and mowed the backyard because the grass has really been growing from all the rain.  We walked the dog and played some more and now I am spent.  I have been using extra long bath time to help us make it through the end of the day routine.  She plays in the tub and I knit.  Its been helpful because by the end of the day I am pretty much spent which I blame a lot on pregnancy, lol.  J gets home tomorrow night and I can't even begin to express how happy this makes me, I could cry, lol.  Tomorrow is the last full day of craziness and then we will all be back together.

My socks are almost done.  I am on the toe of the second sock which is good because sock sniper starts Sept. 1st and I need to be ready.  Although thats a few days away so I could cast on another pair and at least get through the first sock before battle begins....or I could work on some christmas knitting....Saturday I think I should go to the yarn store and buy some stuff I need for my future projects.  I also signed up for the Starbucks swap so when that starts I will have to get moving on that right away.

I am loving this weather.  The evenings have cooled and the days aren't as hot.  I LOVE FALL!  :)