Daydreaming and crocheting in the sun!!!!

Well, this week sure has been BUSY!!!  We finished with Em's tests yesterday.  She said she felt that the test over all was easy and she didn't have a problem with it.  She even said she thought it was fun taking the tests!  I know she can be a bit messed up once in a while.  :)  It was hard waking up earlier in the mornings just to make sure we left on time to make it to the testing center with time to spare so we could go over the days announcements ,etc.  It was also fun to see some of the other homeschooling families that we see on a regular basis and chat with them about "stuff" and how things have gone so far this year.  It was also great to hear about the wonderful things happening in our state's legislature that will improve our homeschooling laws where we live.  We really do have an awesome group working for us to make sure we can educate our kids properly, in a safe loving environment.   Thank You to everyone that works so hard for all of us!!!  :)

Well, on a different note, the other day after dinner I could not resist going out on the deck and soaking up some sun while working on my bag.  But before I started on the most important crochet time, I started daydreaming about when we can get up in the hills and start frolicking around like little mountain goats.  It will be wonderful to get up in the fresh breezes, hearing the wind in the trees, listening for birds, looking for bugs and just taking our little sweet time hiking around.  Let's not forget watching for critters that may be in area.  We have only come near an elk one time near Stanley Lake a few years back.  Other than that, no excitement.  But we still keep an ear and eye out for anything.  You just never know.  I just love the little meadow pictured below in the summer time because it turns blue from all the Lupines that bloom in June/July.  AWESOME!!!

Enough of the daydreaming.  Hiking will come soon enough.  :)

Please don't get frightened by the pale legs that are attached to the really pretty red socks below.  I do need to get out in the sun a bit.  But I couldn't resist wearing my favorite homemade socks.  Favorite color too I must add.  

So I gathered everything one would need while sunning and crocheting out on the deck in the beautiful weather we had the other day.  Big cup of lemonade, tools of the trade, Ipod, the bag, and the phone.  Not sure why I had the phone being I had the ringer turned off.  Don't ask!  :)  The girls were running around the yard squealing and making a bit of noise, which drives me a bit nuts sometimes.  I still don't understand the need or reason for running around squealing about nothing in particular, other than to irritate parents and neighbors.  Sometimes I wonder what the neighbors think when the girls are out just making noise.  I have to remind the girls that others may be out in their yard to enjoy themselves and they didn't come out to hear the crazy whacked out "calls" of the two little birds tearing around our yard.  So the Ipod is needed so that I am not continually asking little peeps to tone it down a bit.  I figure that if I can hear them above where I have the music turn to, then I will remind them.  Nothing like jamming to your favorite tunes while sunning and crocheting!

Here is the progress from two days ago while out in the sun.  I had finished the increasing and was making my way up the side of the bag.  I will have to take another pic sometime today to show the progress since then.  I am really liking this bag!  It is going to be awesome because it will hold a lot of yarn for whatever project I choose next.  I am going to line it first though.  So hopefully that won't take to long to finish so that this beauty can be used.

I must be running now.  I have got to get to Bowling!  We have some friends meeting us.  It will be nice to go and have some fun after the hard work Em and I had the past few days.  Well, at least I need to go and have fun.  Em apparently had fun while testing remember.  Issues!!

Go and have a FAbuLosO weekend everyone!  And keep on creating!  I will be surrounding myself with more yarn.  Like you didn't know that!  LOL!!!  70 degrees here today so I see more sunning on the deck later this afternoon!!  WooHoo!!!

Toodles Noodles!!   xxxxx