whiskers is home

Whiskers is home after surgery.  We got the bathroom on the main level all set up and ready for him to hunker down for a few days.  I was thinking he would be drowsy and sleep the day away...nope.  He is all over the place and wants to be held and climb all over us and he is having a great time with his new litter.  I think he is pretty sure it is a bed.  I can hear him tossing it every where lol.  Naughty is very concerned.  I thought he might sniff him and go crazy (that is what happened with our old cats)  Nope he was fine and sat outside the bathroom the whole time just worried.  Here is a video of the big guy enjoying his new litter.

f.o. baby blanket/ banana bread

I am finished with the baby blanket!!  It turned out beautiful and is bigger then I thought it would be.  I love it and am so glad I chose this pattern and color for my little pumpkin.

I worked on it on the road trip to the twin cities this weekend.  Then I knit the last few rows and bound off today.

I know I was going to blog about my trip to celebrate my birthday with the family but as it often happens with my family chaos took over and nothing went smooth lol.  We went to dinner at old spaghetti factory and even though they said if we did a call ahead we would be moving up the list we still waited a hour for a table and the parking pay thing at the ramp didn't work!  The next day was mall of America to try to find a maternity swim suit and maternity underwear.  That was completely not as planned for one thing my brother tagged along!  Soooo that was awkward and made me cranky!  Def.  Kicked my pregnancy rage in over drive.  (didn't find a swim suit btw)

 Then we went for pedicures... that was a disaster lol.  The water our feet was soaking in was freezing cold, my massage chair didn't work, and the guy didn't scrub my feet which I am a dry heal girl and that is what this pregnant mama needed, but will now be doing that my self. My poor sister had the trainee.  I don't think she was licensed!  They had to keep telling her what to do in Chinese and she burned my sister when she was rinsing her legs (to get the scrub off that we all agreed had to have been made of broken glass lol) My guy screamed at her and reached over and shut off her water.  Then when she went to do the rock massage it was soo hot she literally got burned on the leg.  There was still marks the next day on her leg! Even the driers at the end to dry your nails were cold.  It was pretty much a cold miserable experience and didn't get at all what we hoped for! 

We went to dinner for my brothers birthday after that at one of our family favorite restaurants and even that took 2 and half hours!  It just wasn't out weekend lol  To top it all off fire monster got a heck of a cold and was miserable there and now I have the cold.   Blah so there is our crazy weekend.  It was great spending time with my sister and her family though even if there was some stress and let downs its always great to be with them.

I figured I would whip up a snack for monkey butt after school (since I think she is getting the cold too)  So since I had some bananas in the freezer and some yellow cake mix I threw this together.  

 It was enough to make a large loaf and two small loafs.  It is soo yummy I threw chocolate chips and some walnuts in it.

It is two bananas, a yellow cake mix, and two eggs.  You bake it at 350 for 35 to 40 min.   I found this recipe here and haven't made banana bread any other way since.  Well I am off to have a piece of this and something to drink for my sore throat :)

mani monday/ mermaids tail nails

I finally got my bootie moving and did a mani monday!  I found some polishes over the weekend so I couldn't wait to try them out.  The first one was mermaids tail by sally hansen.  It is a translucent blue base with big chunky green and blue glitter and smaller chunks of blue glitter. 

I put it over a coat of this polish by wet and wild (it didn't have a color when I bought it but I think it might be bayou blue)

here is the finished product

It is glittery and fun but will have to use the glitter removal technique for sure!

here is a video on that

I pretty much use it that way but I take a cotton round cut it in 4 and peel it in half so I can get 8 fingers out of one round)  I leave it for 5 min.

I hope you guys are having a good day.

haircut time :)

 Today was a good day I would say the good things out weighed the bad.  The only bad thing was for the 4th day in a row I got woke up at 3:00 a.m. by fire monster and didn't get to go back to sleep until 8:00 and slept until 11:00 which is a total of 6 hours broken up.  Not enough on a good day for this mama to be and these days have not been good days she has been argumentative and nasty!! Today had some great points to make up for it.  For one the weather was soo much nicer we had a high of 42 which compared to below 0 just a few days ago feel like heaven!!    So I didn't have to squeeze my big bump into my peacoat putting even more strain on the one poor button I can still use lol.  I wore my cute little strapless dress I got after my breast reduction,  my motherhood leggins, and a cashmere sweater my sister had thrifted to make mittens out and I just couldn't bring myself to ruin (its way too cute right?)

 I also got to get my haircut.  It was great because I haven't had it cut in like 9 months.  You might not be able to tell much of a difference because I wore it curly but here is the before...

 and here is the after..

I decided to keep the length but get it trimmed up then have my layers brought up, get some shape back in it and my bangs trimmed.  :)   I am just happy to have got a little pampering and some warm weather.  I picked up unisom which is on my pregnancy approved list and I plan on getting some dang sleep tonight before I get to go celebrate my birthday with my family. :)  I suppose my family would like fed so I will write more over the weekend :)

15 w

I tried to take my 15w picture in the same thing as my 5 w photo just so you can see the difference here that one is.

This week seemed to fly by.  I had my nephew Calvin wed night through sun afternoon.  It was a bit of chaos around here.  I started getting dressed and putting on make up again after being soo sick it was pjs and nothing for about half a week (although until today I still didn't repaint my nails.)

I keep trying to think of what made this week fly so much, but I just think its been one of those weeks where it has always been something, if you know what I mean.  I started to get better then had a extra kid most of the week, then he went home and I have not slept for crap all week so far.  All of my other pregnancy's I have slept like a log.  This one I have been having huge trouble with insomnia in the middle of the night.  The past two nights I can't fall asleep until about 12 then I was up from 3a.m. until about 7 or later.  Then go back to bed for a bit.  Thank god fire monster is going through a growth spurt of something and didn't wake up until 10 today so I could get some more sleep!!

But its one more week down for the count and all in all I am not doing bad..no bed rest..only had the issue with spotting once..no diabetes threat..no other issues I dealt with last pregnancy so far.  So nausea, u.t.i.'s and insomnia be damned I am still counting my blessing, trust you me.   I have high hopes for the next week.  I will be headed up to the cities to celebrate my birthday with my family...go out to dinner..get a pedi..and shop for some pregnancy friendly under garments because nothing I own is working and that makes for many miserable uncomfortable days.  I think part of it is just being sick of winter and having the blahs (its still been below 0 here all week) and I barley can button my coat.  Things just are not comfortable or pretty  and just miserable in general esp clothing wise.  Hence I am looking forward to a few new things to wear, a fresh pedi, and I have a much needed hair cut scheduled for tomorrow!   I will feel a new girl by week 16!   I can't wait!!!  Well off to do my errands for the day :)  Hope you guys are having a great one.

14w 1d update

I apologize I had to skip mani monday and haven't posted in days!!.  I have been sick as a dog.  I was in the e.r. on sunday and had a u.t.i./ kidney infection.  I have been miserable all week and just praying things would start to improve because I know how the deal goes if you don't!  If your lucky its a shot of antibiotics in the butt (which is awful) if your not its being admitted to the hospital!.  Anyway I am on the mend now thank goodness.  Not 100% but at least back to 50%.  We have my nephew Calvin yesterday-Sunday.  So it has been ever the interesting day around the house and now we get to take him grocery shopping lol.  For those of you who haven't heard much about my nephew he is a crazy, fun. sometimes exasperating little boy with autism.  He is either making you laugh, complaining, asking questions, or driving you crazy lol.  Usually all of the above at once.  Well time for me to get the ducks in a row with coats on so we can hit the grocery store and get our butts home for the night.  Wish me luck!

wip umaro/ weekend fun/ bully

 So this weekend was one I look forward to all year.  It is a little thing called The Green Camel Gathering.  It is a knit retreat in a town down the road from mine called Tyler.  It is in a old dormitory and it has knitters spinners weavers a bit of every one.  It is always the first weekend in march.  It is a blast.  A great crew of ladies and it is such fun to knit and chat and learn things from the other ladies (not the mention the amazing ladies who put it on do a great job of feeding us lol)  Me and Pat (my friend/ neighbor) went together this year and we drive back and forth rather then sleeping over.  I worked on my umaro baby blanket.  I thought I would share the progress since I am loving it.

 I am about half way done I just started my 3rd ball of comfort and I have 4 to do this. 

 The pattern has some lace and a bit of cabling.  It is easy enough to follow (although at green camel I found my self losing my place because with 50 ladies speaking and trying to keep up I would just lose track of where I was lol)

 Here is a bit better pic of the pattern although the color got washed out. Some lace, seed stitch, and some cables.

While I was there enjoying that today my amazing hubby took the two monkeys to Papa Johns to work a cookie booth.  They were well behaved and the owner let the girls make their own pizza!!!  How cute is that what a great guy to not only make a special deal to get people in for the cookie booth but to do that for the girls.  Very sweet and very appreciated.

So now I am home and going to curl up with my honey and watch some movies (aka breaking dawn part 2 HELLO!!!)  We also watched the most amazing, heart breaking documentary called Bully.  It follows some kids dealing with being bullied and some parents who children have committed suicide due to being bullied.  It broke my heart and me and my hubby shed so many tears but it is a VERY important issue.  Our children will be watching it today because like one of the parents who suffered this horrible loss said maybe if one person would have stood up for his child or picked him up when he was pushed down it would have saved his life!  I want my kids to see that and be the kids to stand up for them and pick the kids up. 

 If  everyone stands up to a bully then they will be out numbered and won't be able to bully everyone so it will stop.  Another thing SHAME on the adults in the school districts and buses who don't do a damn thing to stop this!  I was shocked!  We would have been tossed off the bus and out of school for pulling this crap.  Please watch this and have your children watch this it is important.  One of the parents (Kirk and Laura) have a organization called stand up for the silent he started in honor of their son who was only 11 (a year and half older then my monkey butt!)  Please like their page and share it on facebook in case someone you know needs support in this circumstance. 
here is the link to join the anti bully movement