It’s just before 830p and it’s dark, pitch dark. My knitting peeps all met at our favorite outside cafe tonite, I am thinking of them knitting in the dark and they might be a wee bit chilly. What is UP with this weather? Rain every day for weeks, then cooooool, not fonzie cool either, cool temperatures and now, the daylight savings is slowly going away. Please oh please summer, stay just a little longer, I beg of you. I did get a full dose of summer today, as we loaded up the car, met some freinds and hit the beach.

We frolicked in the ocean, we dug deep holes, we flew kites, we ate, we soaked up the sunshine!
However, I did forget to re-apply sunscreen and may have got a little red, just a little. woops!

School is right around the corner, so close I can taste my freedom. It’s bittersweet, for the little M, it’s the beginning of the rest of her school career - this will catapult her into public education. She’s ready, but am I? ::sniffsniff::

My Ravelympic project? Ummmmmmm. Yeah, that’s chugging right along. I will for sure not medal.. but I will finish by Sept 4. That’s the day the receiver of this precious blanket will make his/her way into this world! Let me tell you something, I know the mama is ready, but so am I. Yay BABY!

Where are the weeks going? What is happening to my poor neglected blog. I’ll tell you what.. between the fantastic Olympics that we watch around the clock, working on my Olympic project that I do not for see finishing by closing ceremonies next Sunday. But, I will finish in time for who the project is intended for , and thats all that matters!

Mr. Knitpho took a day off and we headed up to the Maine for the day. We went to a zoo and an amusement park and Mia and I got to stroll along the beach and we even saw a light house … you can see the pics hereif you are inclined However, after it was all said and done and my dear 3 year old daredevil daughter went on every ride you could possibly imagine and more without batting an eyelash at the speed or the height of it, this picture captures it all.

After stuffing our faces full of salt water taffy and seaside treats - we made our way back home with two exhausted kiddies and two VERY exhausted parents. The weekend is busy with friends, family and freshly made blueberry pancakes that my kiddies picked yesterday!

Happy Sunday!

I haven’t blogged all week! What is UP with that. Well, mainly - I haven’t had a lot going on. It’s just one of those things, I guess.
A lot of annoying little tidbits that eat at my brain…. I guess I could rant, but I won’t. It’s really just that dumb, not worth my time to type it, and I don’t want you to not come back! So.. onward.

I am all set for the upcoming Ravelympics. I have picked my event and my team is all set. BAMFK IN DA HIZZLE! So, it was SUPPOSED to be a great big surprise, but I let the cat out of the bag today.. I am SO bad at keeping prezzie secrets. Actually, she knows it’s a blankie, but she doesn’t know what it looks like.. but I’m sure I’ll be posting.. I am the worst surprise gift giver EVER!

OH.. and I’ve been plurking.

After tennis yesterday, Danielle invited us to swim, and did we EVAH. My kiddies, and her kiddies and we did too, swam to our little hearts content, since it was crazy hot out. Ofcourse, my camera went with …

and.. I got one of Danielle’s daughter… is she not the cutest thing!!

I am ecstatic that Project Runway is back.. I am sewing a little dress for the princess…. and I hope to show you by the end of the weekend 2! finished sewing projects… so, watch our SUEDE, I’m gonna run you right over! I have a fun party to attend over the weekend (sans children!), so I am very happy about that. There you have it! BORING as EVER! I am knitting on my CPH stilll.. but working with wool in this heat, ummm no thank you. Thats why I am playing with the Mr. Singer these days.

Have a great weekend!!!!

365.7 Friday night, originally uploaded by rkymtnmel.

This was my friday night. Knitting. Drinking. Plurking. What was funny - that most of my BAMFK’s were online - so it was just like being at knit night - except not.

My fridays just aren’t what they used to be - that’s for damn sure.

Have a super weekend!

M is for M & M at the Movies, originally uploaded by rkymtnmel.

Finally.. M! I didn’t want to take the easy way out, and use my own personal M’s as my M. But… I was late - and I just could not come up with anything else. Besides, to me . …there is no better “M” in all the land, than my M’s… at the **M**ovies no less. We went to see Wall-E and it was indeed as good as you’ve heard it was. So sweet, so so sweet.

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one day. I may crack. I’ll runaway from the noise and madness of a whiny 3 year old and loud 9 year old and go on my own Rumspringa.

Who’s in?

(the reason i thought of this, I’m watching this primetime show on the Amish kids gone bad.
It’s fascinating)

This has been floating around blogs for the last week or so, I thought today would be a good day to play. You can create your own here - and for notes on the pics - click this!

Flickr MEME, originally uploaded by rkymtnmel.

Flickr game:

the rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker).

the questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

baby bird!, originally uploaded by rkymtnmel.

On Sunday I was walking around my back yard and I looked up at the nest. Now the birds have got quite big and they can all barely fit in their nest. They were always pushing each other around and how none of them fell out and got eaten, is beyond me. So, there I was minding my own business and out of nowhere, 2 big birds and 4 baby birds come dive bombing at me and all I hear is wings a fluttering. FLUTTER FLUTTER FLUTTER FLUTTER! I cover my eyes and my head and run for cover. I make it back up to my deck without having my eyes pecked out and just a few short screams. How dare that mama & papa bird come after me after I’ve been so protective all the little ones this whole time. I AM SO OFFENDED. We look down and we see 2 little birds, just sitting there. They are scared to death and are not moving a feather! I don’t know if I spooked them and they all fell … now they are calm and just waiting for help. We all go inside and give the mama time to get her babies together and safe. I look in the nest.. it’s filled up and all is good. Ok.. fine. Back into the back yard because I will not be a prisoner in my own home. Then, Mia & I find one little stray bird (we named her Suzie) out on the side, and she was lost. Mama didn’t find her! So, I sport me some rubber gloves and I am going to pick up this little baby and help her find her mama. I go to kind of do a scoop and the thing start fluttering like crazy and Mia SCREAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMS and then all the birds start going crazy again. The little bird found its way to it’s parents and now I have empty nest syndrome. But, truth be told.. I am glad they are gone. They were all getting pretty loud & obnoxious and frankly - I didn’t like the competition.

Bye Bye Birdies…

… oh now? I get to go to Mia’s soccer insanity. I’ll have to enter a zen state of mind and not nail that mom with my purse. Which just happens to have a Master Lock inside of it. That would hurt… mwwaaahhhhaaaaa. MWWWWHWHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHA

I like em big and I like em long!!
Hey! I’m talking about the weekend, you dirty pigs. I love Memorial Day weekend. I think it comes at just the right time when spring fever has hit it’s hardest (here in New England anyway) and we are in desperate need for warmer temps… some sunshine and drinking beers outside. Not from the confines of these four walls. That’s what this weekend will bring. Big deep breath and relax. Not to mention of course what Memorial Day actually means, and to reflect on that.

What are your plans this weekend.. are you going to try out your mad grillin’ skillz? If you have any favorite recipes for your grill that you want to share.. please do. My goal is to do most of the food making on the grill this summer, but I only do so much, and I can not feed the family burgers, dogs, steaks, kabobs all summer long.. well, I could.. but they’d hate me for it. So.. share please?

I have a big weekend planned. I am running my first ever in my lifetime (including gym class) 5k tomorrow. I am not a runner. But, I figured if Mr. Knitpho can do a marathon, I can run 3.1miles. It just isn’t any 5k. I picked this one in particular only because it is called the Melody Miles 5k Road Race. How could I not participate in this? Miles was going to run with me, but he just didn’t get the training done to keep the distance at running the whole time. So,he’s going to run the 1mile fun run instead. I mean what are the chances of a race named with to very uncommon names in it! If you don’t hear from me again, it’s because I died and Mr. Knitpho was beyond embarassed and chucked me off the side to the road and left to rot. That may very well happen.

Then to celebrate, good friends over for a BBQ on Sunday who USED to be our neighbors, but WHO moved away and left us… and then a trip to our favorite ice cream place. I’m already thinking of what I’m getting, my goal is try something different every time I go, we’ll see how long I last.

Then Monday… R E L A X. K N I T. R E A D. N A P.

Have a great weekend!!!

born into it, originally uploaded by rkymtnmel.

They came home on Saturday with a set of basball cards for each of them. She now knows all 14 in the pack and ofcourse… her fave is always at the top of the deck.

*MAN-NY MAN-NY MAN-NY*