200 - Really?

Wow... my 200th post. Who knew?

First, I want to say thank you to those of you who went out and purchased items from my etsy store or emailed me with custom orders. I am SO thankful and grateful for your help.

Second - I'd like to shared some new pics with everyone since it's been a while!

Gracie got this fairy outfit at our church fair as her special gift for finishing potty training:


Carter - He'll be 8 months old next week...can you believe it?



Gracie teaching Carter how to crawl:


These two amaze me more and more each day. I'm so blessed to have such wonderfully amazing children!

Sadly I don't have anything exciting to say about myself. I'm still working on losing this baby weight, playing World of Warcraft, and knitting my spare time away. Spare time...hahaha.

Stay tuned...I'm brainstorming something exciting for tomorrow's post.

Rain Rain Go Away

We've been in an endless cycle of rain for the past two weeks. My garden is drowning and my kids are cranky from being cooped up in the house. It's been in the mid 60's to low 70's with no hope for improvement. Today we had rain again but as I was leaving work the sun poked out and stayed out for about an hour and the kids were able to get outside for a little bit.

Unfortunately in the hour that we were outside Gracie managed to get stung by a bee and her entire hand is now swollen. I swear it has been one injury/illness after another with my kids lately. I really think that some nice summer weather would do us a bit of good.

I'm looking forward to a short week at work this week and spending some time with family and friends this weekend. I spent the past few days posting some things for sale on my etsy store and tonight I'll be finishing up a twilight inspired mitten/hat set to put up for sale.

I'm hoping to use the money that comes in from my etsy store to pay off some of Carter's medical bills from the NICU, the apnea monitor, and his stay in the hospital with Pneumonia. We are going through a very rough time financially right now, so every little bit helps!

Bella's Mittens

I've been busy and yet again failed to blog for over a week. I guess working two jobs and having two kids is a little more hectic than I imagined it would be! However... in my "spare" time if you can even call it that I finally got to finish my hardest knitting project yet..."Bella's Mittens".

The pattern for these mittens was inspired by the mittens that Kristen Stewart wore in the Twilight movie, and I'm so happy that I came across it. Though they aren't exactly perfect, I'm very happy with the way they turned out. Let me know what you think!

Eye Wide Shut

Gracie got bit by a black fly right in the corner of her eye today at daycare. When I went to pick her up I was quite shocked when I saw her come around the corner with her right eye swollen completely shut. It looked like she just left the boxing ring...it was that bad. Apparently she doesn't have a good reaction to fly bites.

Here's what she looked like when I picked her up today:




This is a few hours after she had her first dose of benedryl:



I'm hoping that a second dose of benedryl and a good night's sleep will do her some good. Poor girl kept asking me "mommy, can you make me see better now" and "mommy, I can't see". She also kept bumping into things and tripping all over the place...my poor little Gracebug.