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QotD: My Favorite Movie Quote

What’s your favorite movie quote of all time?

Have fun storming the castle!

"Have fun stormin' the castle!"
Honestly though....the Princess Bride is chock FULL of amazing quotes that I use every day...."Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I don not think it means what you think it means"....or "Rodents of Unusual Size?! I dont think they exist".....or "STOP IT! I mean it!"- "Anyone want a peanut?!"
Now I have to go watch the thing again!

I think Im DONE Christmas shopping.......I honestly felt like I was so far behind but now I think Im done! That doesn't mean that I have all my presents in the house and wrapped though. I still have gifts to be delivered, and I still have to pick a few ordered things in at Walmart (site to store is an amazing invention!) and I am WAY behind on wrapping.....but for now Im considering myself DONE.....Im sure Ill pick up a few more stocking stuffers.....but its feeling good right now!

The part that isn't feeling good is when I look at the mound I still have to wrap.....sighhhhhh

Cookies!

This was a very low key weekend.....we didn't really do much at all....but on Saturday afternoon we had a friend in and the boys and E played all afternoon while E's Mom and I visited (and drank!).....so it was quite nice......and in the process of it all, we decided to make gingerbread cookies. I just love watching kids make cookies- or any kind of cooking really. We divided the dough into 3 balls and each kid rolled it out, and cut out shapes. I didn't have any cookie cutters so I cheated and used our play doh shape cutters as cookie cutters- and I have to say that they really worked well.....after we baked the cookies, and ate supper, the kids decorated 3 cookies each with frosting and they ate em up......The cookies weren't bad either I have to say....gingerbread isn't my favorite, but they were tasty- at least the ones that weren't rolled too thin.....those were super crunchy!

Anyways, here are some pics......

gift knitting and hkf

abigailvr
4 days ago
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So it's no longer Friday and I should be asleep but I'm going to call this my scheduled Friday blog post. (You're welcome.)

Yesterday and today felt like crazy hectic days where I had hardly a minute to sit down, let alone knit. The evenings were slightly more relaxing, I went to BobaKnit last night and got very hungry talking to my fellow BobaKnitters about things like potato lasagne (genius) and learned about crazy solutions to leg cramping issues like soap in the bed. BE careful, though, apparently the cat might make off with the soap and you'll need to keep buying a new bar. Don't ask me, it wasn't my idea but apparently it works for Jen's mom! The topic came up because I am knitting leg warmers to help someone in my family keep from getting leg cramps. I actually think I might knit myself a pair too. My legs don't cramp but they get achy if they're too cold at night. By the time I finish them, of course, it will be back to being 70 degrees outside, just watch. I am slacking in a major way on holiday knitting this year. I'm working on those leg warmers and perhaps a couple other small things but most people are getting purchased gifts. I feel guilty about it but then I remember that I hardly got to sit down today.

Janice posted on Facebook today that December 11th is the second anniversary of Hand Knit Friday, a tradition she started that I keep forgetting to keep. I tried for a while and then it gets warm and I flake and by the time it's cold again, I forgot. But today! I wore my cowl-o-tis and my Sugnim socks.

gorgeous colors

finished socks!

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Happy Hand Knit Friday-aversary, everyone!

Spectacular! Spectacular!

Spectacular, Spectacular

The Moulin Rouge has LONG been one of my favorite movies of all times.....and the music is phenomenal in it. And now the kids think so too.....no- I didn't let them watch it- I think its a little too much for a 4 and 5 year old...but I did play them "The Pitch/Spectacular! Spectacular!".....it started with me singing "so exciting, the audience will stop and cheer! So exciting, it will run for 50 years" and the kids asked to hear the real verison (apparently I don't do it justice!). They have now been dancing to this song for 6 times.....and still going strong.....you have to admit that its catchy right?

it's that time again

Well, we see how well my posting schedule is working. I haven't posted in a week! Of course, I was sick as a dog last week adn not knitting much and then I started on a gift knitting project that I think I will be abandoning. My "November" sweater has one sleeve and I started the second one, so there is progress being made but not much. We have Arts Focus at school this week so I had to warp the looms again.

warped, again

I might venture to say that I'm getting good at it. In the last class the other mom who is sitting at the weaving table with me and I decided that something between the warp and the two pieces of wood that hold it tight might help with said tightness. We opted for paper towel since we had that on hand. It seemed to work so I used those same pieces again. Fabric might be a better permanent option but I can't decide if the fabric should be attached to the bars or if it needs just sit between like the paper is. I'm not sure I'll get a chance to find out. We have one more class after tomorrow's class and in the spring we go back to our old class format which includes a smaller individual weaving project where each child weaves on an improvised weaving frame. In the past we used plastic lids from file boxes that we could get cheaply at RAFT (Resource Area for Teachers) but we are going to try paper plate weaving this time. It looks easier to tie off and remove than the plastic lid ones, which usually stayed on the lid.

So there you have it: warping, not knitting. It's a lot like November, except it's not daily.

QotD: Guilty TV Pleasure

What's your guilty television pleasure?

GLEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh...and The Real Housewives of Orange County....its just so sleezy!

How am I going to pull this off?

I asked Josh what he wanted from Santa and he said "I want a motorcycle that you can really ride that I can run it into the lake and then it will turn into a boat and after that it can spray apple juice at people!"

SERIOUSLY!?!

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Dec 7, 2009

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ICE! At the Gaylord Texan

Josh in his Parka (he is a little scared of what is coming next)

The boys and the Grinch planning his trip

We took the kids out to the Gaylord Texan yesterday for the Grinch on Ice. Its a display they have out there where they have built a whole Who world out of ice along with the Grinch and his trusty dog Max. When you first get there they give you these big blue parkas that everyone is supposed to wear and they suggest that you bring your own mittens and gloves. You proceed into a super deep freeze where you get transported into Whoville and Mount Crumpet. It takes about 30 minutes to go through the display where you watch the Grinch plan his trip to Whoville and the Whos getting ready to celebrate Christmas and how the Grinch's heart grew 3 sizes and how he takes part in the Christmas feast in the end. Almost every bit is made from ice- it was fantastic! The room is a chilly 9 degrees F. There is also 3 or 4 ice slides that the kids could go down. It took Josh some convincing but he did it in the end....Jake was quicker to do it again and again.

The Grinch is one of my favorite parts of Christmas- its also becoming one of the kids favorites too- they really like the Jim Carrey movie! Which Im starting to like more and more as I watch. After the Ice experience you enter into this room where you could buy hot chocolate and truffles and watch the Grinch on a movie screen. That was a nice warm up after the 9 degree coolness. Then of course was the gift shop that you HAD to go through before you left....and like a sucker, we bought the kids a stuffed animal each....and I bought a grinch christmas ornament.

I just LOVED this exhibit....it meant alot to me that everyone went and had fun. Here is a short video of some of the magic that was in there- keep in mind, almost everything is made from ice in here:

The Grinch on Ice

After we warmed up and bought some stuff, we headed into the main part of the Gaylord Texan, which was decorated up for Christmas and it was just gorgeous. There were toy trains everywhere and the kids could watch to trains for hours. We did alot of that. Here are a few pictures of the inside of the Gaylord Texan: