My Flower Basket Shawl in progress (still). I joined the Summer of Lace group and it's given me plenty of motivation to keep working on this. I"m at repeat number 9...Planning on going all the way to 14 repeats before I do the edging.

Close-up of the FBS pattern (upside down).

Birthdays and (a little) knitting

We celebrated Little Man's 3rd birthday yesterday. I can't believe he's already three years old!

And here he is at three weeks old....
I swear I look at these old pictures of him and it just blows me away how much he's grown. I never thought I would be a full time mom- my plan was to have a baby, put it in daycare and go back to work. But once I saw Little Man's tiny smiles, smelled his sweet baby breath and watched him take in the world....there was no way I was going to let anyone else have those precious moments.

There are plenty of times where I wonder "What was I thinking?" to stay at home with the kiddos. But every day brings plenty of laughs to go along with the frustrations of dealing with a toddler (and baby). I can't wait to see what the munchkins will grow up to be....

Eat cake!

Little Man was very excited with his new scooter. He immediately wanted to try it out in the kitchen!

Goodie bags for the kiddos

Cousin Audrey and her Daddy

Prezzies!

And yes, I have been knitting....I'll post a pic tomorrow of the vest I've been working on for Little Man.

Warning: picture heavy post ahead!

No knitting content, but lots of pics from our Fourth of July block party. It was a huge success- we rented a jump house for the kids, had a big pool on the lawn and everyone brought plenty of food.

Here we go...
Yum!

Little Man and Shane's wagon, all decorated for the 4th

Monkey Boy and DH

Little Man in the Jump House

Shane enjoys the pool

Little Man

Doesn't this look like "The Scream"?

Happy Fourth of July!!!!!

I finally manged to ply up all the BFL that I had dyed and spun. This is the stuff that I felted a little bit...but it turned out ok. I have 360yds- the most I've ever spun! Not sure what I'm going to make out of it, but I love the colors.  

I wasn't lucky enough to attend the Black Sheep Gathering in Eugene this year, but some friends (Karen, Kat and Lori) went. They brought me back this wonderful BFL handpainted roving from Dicentra Designs. It is soooo yummy- I immediately started spinning.... 

I'm thinking of making matching socks for the boys from this roving. There's 5 oz so that's plenty for two pair of baby/toddler socks.

Watch out! Gruesome Toothsome is in the house....

Still working away on multiple WIPs...the FBS is growing slowly but steadily. I just completed the 8th repeat on my way to 14 (or maybe more, we'll see).

The Pinwheel Blankie is also growing. It takes alot longer to finish a round now, especially since I'm up to 23 sts between YOs, and I've got like 500+ sts on the needles.

I'm not even going to mention any of the other WIPs floating around. I'm afraid to actually take stock of how many I've got. *eye roll*

Everyone have a happy and safe 4th of July!