So Very Much

So very much has happened since my last post. I finally got a job, after almost a year of looking. Just over two years later and I'm still there! It's a great job and a great place to work.

Got to work one day to find a whole flock of yard flamingos out front 

Just after I started my job we closed on our first house! We've spent the last two years making it feel like home and traveling around and enjoying our new state. Oh and I almost forgot, we also adopted a cat. She's our first pet in the 10 years that we've been together. Her name is Olive and I absolutely love her. She has so much personality, it's amazing.

Olive

Things are finally starting to feel settled down for me and I intend to try and start blogging again. It's funny, tonight I sat here and read through some of my old posts and I don't even remember writing some of it, I'm glad that I have the "journal" of my blog to look back through.

There is so very much more to tell, but I think I'll save some for next time :)

Pressed Leaves

Until this year I never knew that I hadn't experienced a real fall season. In Wyoming the leaves go from green to brown, then get blown off of the trees. That all happens in the span of about a week. It's pretty much the same in Colorado and Montana.

Well I've got to say our first fall in the Pacific Northwest was amazing! The leaves turned so many different colors: red, pink, orange, rust, bright yellow and chocolate brown. We took several walks around the neighborhood to look at all of the color. To our amazement the leaves stayed on most of the trees for atleast a month, and some even still have their leaves. There are so many trees here the ground was just carpeted with color when they started to fall off.

On one of our walks we picked up some different leaves and pressed them in the phone book. Finally got around to taking them out last week to see how they turned out. They kept a fair amount of their color, so we put them in floating frames so that light could get through.

Husband Beanie

Well I've gotten my second (for the public) pattern up on ravelry. I've decided to call it Husband Beanie, since it's more universal sounding. Plus when I was looking for a pattern for Josh's hat I totally would have looked at a pattern with that name. Josh picked out the yarn, go figure it's grey. It's Cascade Yarns 220 Superwash Wool.

The sun was in his eyes, and apparently made him a little
cranky. I got one picture where he looks super p.o.'d
and he's looking directly at the camera, but I've been
forbidden to post it. (It's hilarious though!)

It was a gorgeous day here yesterday (and it is again today, yay!). We went for a little drive to this scenic outlook, and then went up to Nooksack Falls on Mt. Baker. You can see Mt. Baker in the photo, it's the snowiest peak on the far left.

Kind of hard to believe it's December.
I love the weather up here!

Nooksack Falls

Been trying to come up with a new idea for a pattern, but I think that well is dry for the time being. Guess I'll have to finish some of the projects in my bin...