And in other news..

And in other words, I finally finished Ali's scarf. I bought this great yarn at an Alpaca party. A friend from church's sister has an alpaca farm in Maine. She came down to show her "wares" and I bought this pretty painted yarn with the intent of making something for Alison. I found this neat pattern on my knitting calander. You cast on, then knit into each stitch, knit it until you have half of the length you want (or for me when I was almost out of yarn) as below:

Then you drop every other stitch and RIP OUT HALF OF THE SCARF! See the ripping in process below:

Then you end up with this gorgous lacy scarf. I made pom-poms for the end of it. Here is the finished project modeled by my favorite model:

Last Monday it rained like crazy all day. In the afternoon the rain stopped and it was nice out (near 60) so we went to the beach to see what the storm washed up. I love this beach. It is where I go to get centered. I always feel at peace there. It is easy to see why:

Here is Ali trying to pick up a ginormous friendship rock.
And Ali trying to tempt the waves to catch her, good thing she had her rain boots on. Like her rock pail? It is her pumpkin from halloween. She cracks me up.

Yesterday we took the train into Boston and went to:

My mom got Alison tickets for all of us (Ali, Katie, mom and I). We were 8 rows off of the ice. It was so cool! It reminded me how much I miss the theater. I spent most of the show figuring out all fo the technical aspects, the costuming, who had wigs, why the props were like they were. Man do I miss it. Time to change occupations?? Teach at a theater maybe and work backstage??