There are two of them!

I finished kyle's gloves/mittens.  Both of them!  I have been known in the past to make one glove and never finish the other one.  I am turning over a new leaf to be a finisher!

more knitting

I completed sam's hat and it turned out much better than the first one. I couldn't quite figure out how to make the pattern i put on the other one work for this size and sam said he wanted a thicker pattern so I decided to go with the diamonds. 

I also have started working on some fingerless gloves for kyle that have a mitten flap to go over the fingers.

My Latest Project

Sam told me that this year for Christmas I could knit him a beanie with earflaps.  He said emerald green with some kind of white design in the middle.  So I found a free pattern on the internet, ordered some yarn (100% merino wool), two skeins in green and one in white.  Today I got the yarn in the mail and it was my day off so I got going.  I started working on the pattern, and I even checked my gauge to make sure that it would turn out right.  After having to change my needles a few times to get the right sizing I started on the real thing.  Here is the finished product:

I think that it turned out really good!  And I even looked up on the internet how to do the crochet edging.  The only problem is that the actually beanie part (not including the ear flaps) is about six inches tall.  So I think that this one might have to go to David or Josh until I can figure out what exactly went wrong. 

ARCHULETA 4 PRESIDENT!

For family night Kyle and I went to Cornbelly's Cornmaze in Lehi.  Every year they mow the corn into a different picture and this year it is david archuleta! It was fun and they had a lot of different activities besides just the cornmaze.  We saw pig racing featuring tommy la-snort-a, failed the left turn only maze that kyle believes to be impossible, went on a hayride, AND inside the maze we ran into David Archuleta himself!

 

Kyle does a pretty good impression of his hero, David Archuleta

It was bumpy on the hayride so we couldn't really get one in focus.

All of Farmer Kyle's corn is getting stomped on.  He is sad. 

VICTORY!

Matrimony the Ghanaen way

On Tuesday one of Kyle's really good buddies from Ghana got married.  It was a great wedding and the reception was amazing!  It was really neat to see the ways that they meshed the Arican and American Cultures.  Lucy (the bride) had a beautiful dress that had African cloth draped around the back. 

Instead of having a traditional sign in book the had small pieces of paper for you to write a note on.  Also on the paper you could stamp traditional Adinkra symbols that mean different things.

Outside they had drumming and once it got later they came inside and did dance instruction.  It was a lot of fun, dancing, and food.  

More Progress on the Backyard

Thanks Mom and Dad for coming up and helping! We are almost done!

Our Backyard

Our backyard has needed some work since before it was even my backyard.  When we moved back to Salt Lake from St. George we decided to take action and DO IT!  For the last week we have been busy weeding, shoveling, wheelbarrow-ing, leveling, and compacting.  We still have a lot left to do but have gotten a lot done.  Here are some photos of our progress

We also had the stone and sand delivered today.  Because our street is so narrow the delivery truck parked had to park in the middle of the main road and drive the fork lift only up our street.