This years Garden

Our garden is almost finished for the season but it has been plentiful this year and for that we are thankful. These are pictures taken in the spring just to get an idea of our garden size and how much stuff we had in the garden.

Below are just some of the pictures of our harvest. These pictures are not nearly all the we received from our garden.


Some of the things that we harvested that you do not see in any of these pictures are, cantaloupe, one pumpkin, and cucumbers. All in all I would say we had a pretty successful season this year. Especially since it has been a very hot and dry summer.

football and cook fest!

So I have dedicated Sunday's to church, football, cooking and knitting. Today we went to our neighborhood broncos football kickoff game. Last year was the first year the neighborhood put together this fun party. They have free food, free beer, broncos cheerleaders, give-aways, and games. We didn't take a picture this year with the cheerleaders but last year we did so I will share those with you.
You know Kevin enjoyed this picture!!!
What a great time!! Today was awesome and we one the best prize after the 2nd quarter of the game. Our number was picked to win 2 Broncos tickets to the Kansas Broncos game on November 14th. We were both so excited!!!!

When we got home it was time to cook. I didn't have time to take pictures but in the next day or two I will post some pics of what we harvested from the garden so you can get the idea of some of what we cooked. So my goal is to cook a bunch of food so we do not have to cook every night we get home. We get home late many evenings and we both are too tired to cook. So we harvested 20 chili peppers from our garden and I made a chili relleno casserole, with spanish rice, and refried beans. Then we roasted an organic duck from the csa we belong to. Yummy!!! None of this was for dinner though. In honor of football season we made some yummy wings and beer. I will update you on my knitting in the next day or so and I will post some pics of our garden, like I have been promising.

Fourmile Fire

Well if you all have not heard there is a large wild fire in Boulder county. The fire is located in the foothills and mountains. The last update was that it was 7100 acres and 63 structures/homes have been burned,with 3500 people being evacuated. We had a large plume of smoke over our house from the fire, which started yesterday. Kevin and I were able to get some pictures of the fire from our porch, keep in mind that we are far away from the flames. This should give you an idea of how high the flames must have been.

This was shortly after the fire had started, about 12 noon so about 2 hrs after the fire started and the winds were blowing about 45 miles per hour.


This is later in the after noon you can see the clouds moving a little more north. We had to keep our windows closed until about 5pm b/c the smoke was over us for most of the day due to the high winds. This is a view from our front porch just to give you an idea of how far the smoke was traveling east.

This is just before sunset. You can see how much the fire has spread since earlier. The earlier pictures are when the fire was 2200 acres. This picture and the next one are when the fire was 3500 acres. This is a picture after dark. It is not a good picture but I wanted you to get an idea of how big the flames were to the point that we could see so much of them from our deck. Just a scary thought.
I didn't get any pictures today because you can't see the mountains due to the thick layer of smoke blocking them . Since yesterday the fire has moved more north, north west, and north east. So we really can't see too much from the house now, even though the fire is larger.

Knitting projects I have complete or am working on

Hi, I have been on here in over a year, but I am back and ready to keep you up on what is going on in our lives. I thought it would be great to start out with all the knitting projects that I have worked on since I last posted and what I am currently working on.

These are the socks that I was working on. I finished them and they fit Kevin perfect.
Below is the skirt I was working on (you can see both of these projects in previous post). Its almost done I just have to darn in the ends, and block.
Now for the projects I have done the past few months and what I am currently working on.
I have been basically doing baby sweaters since most of my friends are having babies. Here are the pictures of the sweaters below.
I made two of these. One was pink, green and white and then this one. I forgot to take a picture of the other one but its smaller. This was the project that I had mentioned I was going to work on for one of my friends Daphne who gets on here so I couldn't post a pic before. The other one went to Jeffery and Erika.
This sweater I made for my friend Kate and I also made a sweater like this for a friend at work but it was with different colors. Currently I am working on two projects. The first one is a baby sweater for Brice and Jen's new little girl. I am also going to make the same one just bigger for here bigger sister. I think it will be so cute for them to have matching sweaters.
I am also working on a bolero or shrug for my self. I think it will be great to have in the fall.

Well that is all for now. I will be back on to update you on something else in the next day or two.

Visit home in April

I went home in April to visit my family since my mom and grandfather's health has not been too well. Here are some pictures from my visit.

My nephew Jack and my niece Olivia

I think Olivia has found something she likes (Aunt Kelly's earrings)

My Sister Amy with her children(Jack and Olivia) swimming at the pool.

My mom and grandfather relaxing on the porch watching us play
dodge ball in the street with the kids.

Childhood friend and brother Rusty! We use to get in trouble
when we were growing up!

One sock done!!!

Ok, we had a snowday on Thursday March 26th and well that gave me plenty of time to get some knitting done. Here are some pictures of my sock.

I am so proud

It fits Kevin's foot perfectly!

I will post some snow pics and some skirt updates in a day or two!

Socks and Gardening

Well , of course I did not get as far as I wanted on my knitting this weekend. I was only able to knit on Sunday. I managed to finish the main part of the sock and have now started the heel. The pattern calls for 26 rows for the heel and I have completed 9 row. Only 15 more rows to go and I can turn my first heel! How exciting!!


As for my skirt, I did not get a chance to work on that, so I will post an update on that in a day or two. Something else exciting I did this weekend was start my garden seeds YAY!!! For those of you who do not know, Colorado has a late planting season. You are to start seeds 8 weeks before they can go in the ground. For Colorado that would be the weekend after mothers day (we still get frost in early may). This year Mother's day is the 10th, so I will put my plants in the ground May 17th, 8 weeks from now.
I will post pictures as they start to grow. In my vegetable garden I planted: onions, peppers, sweet peppers, broccoli, eggplant, green beans, roma tomatoes, beefeater tomatoes, cucumbers, romaine, and two different types of spinach. For my herb garden I planted: rosemary, dill, sage, parsely, caraway seeds, cilantro, oregano, morjam, and thyme. For the first time, this year I am trying something different. I keep buying flowers and those pesky rabbits keep destroying them. So instead, I have planted flower seeds to try to save money. Perrenials I planted are bellflowers, aster,coneflower, daisys,creeping thyme, and yarrow. Annuals I planted were snapdragons, poppys, merigolds, and forget me nots. I plan on planting a bunch of wild flower springs in may as well!