Christmas

I only got a two week break for Christmas so we took full advantage of the little time we had. This is the only break that I have until I graduate, so we went out to California to see Kyle's family. On our way out we decided to spend a few nights in Las Vegas. While we were in Las Vegas we went on Let's Make a Deal and went to the Las Vegas Bowl.

We didn't get picked to make a deal with Wayne Brady, but it was still a lot of fun! We went to two tapings and on the second one they sat us right behind Wayne, so we were on the TV for most of the show. Our costumes were made by one of Kyle's co-workers, Winter. They made them for themselves for halloween and we borrowed them for the show. They were a real hit! During the first taping during the breaks the whole crowd was chanting, "sushi! sushi!". It was a lot of fun. These pictures aren't the greatest, I had to take them of the tv, and the recording got deleted, so they are all we have!

The Las Vegas Bowl was sooo cold! The wind was blowing really hard, they said that there were gusts of up to 42 mph and it was 45 degrees. We were definately bundled up as much as we could be!

This video shows some highlights and some good shots of how windy it was!

We were able to spend about a week with Kyle's family too, which was really nice. Marsha (Kyle's Mom) had connections to a behind the scenes look at the rose parade. It was really cool to see how much time is put into these floats. They were so detailed!

Happy Birthday!

My dad's birthday is today. I made for him an Ice Scraper Mitt It is basically a mitten that has a hole in the top so that you can put an ice scraper inside of it. It is felted, so it will hopefully keep your hands warm and dry! Happy birthday dad!

ever bearing raspberries

These raspberries were picked off of our plants TODAY! November 6th, 2009 and we still have raspberries growing! We planted these plants in the fall of 2008, and didn't even expect to have many berries on them at all, let alone clear into november! Apparently there is a kind of raspberry called ever berries that produce fruit longer than normal raspberries, who knew?! There are still a lot out there, so we will see how much longer they last!

These plants have done all this growing in one year! We planted two raspberry and two blackberry plants and they have taken over!

The Magic Waterfall Scarf

I began working on this scarf last saturday. I have had the yarn for a long time and found this pattern in one of my books that I had. The pattern came out of the book 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders . The yarn is called Debbie Mumm Souvenirs and the color is eggnogg.

The picture in the book has a scarf that looks like this:

When I started knitting my scarf looked like this:

Just like a boring old scarf. I read the directions again and was doing everything right, I looked online to see if there were any typos in the book and there weren't, and I also looked on ravelry (a social networking for knitters website) and saw that no one else had made any comments about having trouble making the scarf. So I moved on, even when some people didn't think that it was going to turn out right, i kept going.

The book said that the magic happened at the end when you finished. So I finished and VOILA!!

Boy Version of Hat

I finished the boy version of the hat in the previous post so now I am prepared no matter if it is a boy or a girl.

The pattern for this hat can be found here

more k-nitting

The weather is getting colder, Sarah's baby is almost here, and I had a weekend in between classes and a little time for myself. So that means I did a little knitting. This project I think was much more successful than the really hard to tie harry potter tie in the previous post.

I had to pay for the pattern, which was hard to do since i can usually find what i need for free on

the internet. But it is a functional pattern and I think that it will be worth it!

Hopefully she is going to have a girl!!

Shout out to Sao Paulo!

When my brother got his mission call (Sao Paulo South Brazil!) I remembered that I had a couple of knitting patterns for neckties. I found one that is pretty much as simple as it gets. I decided to give it some stripes to make it funner, but it turned out a little harry-potter-esk. It was fun though! Here's to you, Elder Nielsen!