I got called off for four hours this morning so I don’t have to go into work until 11am; this was like winning the lottery since I had an awful night of sleep tossing and turning. Plus now I will be able to get a few things done this morning including a nice walk around the neighborhood! I have been meaning to update this but have not had the motivation despite having plenty of things to talk about. We had more visitors! We really are getting spoiled over here so much so that when we go two weeks without a visitor I start to complain that it is lonely especially when Jas is working the long hours and I am left to fend for myself! Kathy, Kelsey and Matthew came through right around Jas’ birthday so they were able to celebrate with us. I whipped up a knit lobster for Jas as a tribute to one of his more famous baby pictures…
This was a great little project to use up yarn and to kick off the knitting season. I have so many projects that I have lined up it is sort of overwhelming, but this little guy took me about three days (roughly 12 hours of straight knitting) and I am quite pleased with him. I think Jas was surprised too, he might hang out in our downstairs bathroom which is starting to have a nautical theme to it by default (all sparked by an antique fishing reel that was given as a wedding gift). While our visitors were here we headed up to some of the canyons for fall foliage and in hopes of spotting more moose. Kathy suggested a nice hike to Doughnut Falls in Big Cottonwood Canyon, parts of it reminded me of Oneonta Gorge in Oregon…
Sadly we did not spot any moose but it was a nice day and a nice hike. Kathy, Kelsey and Matthew ventured to the Hogle Zoo which is about 2 minutes from our house I stayed home to rake leaves but was quickly persuaded that I must visit the zoo when I learned of all the babies that they have right now! So, the next day Jason, Kathy and I went to the zoo to spot some babies. The one that I was most excited about was the baby elephant, Zuri! She was so tiny!
Here is a picture that gives a better perspective as to how tiny she actually is…
So cute, they also had three baby tigers, a monkey and a giraffe, Kelsey got some good pictures that you can see on her blog here and Jason got some good ones that you can see on his blog here. I can’t believe that it is November already, October came and went in a flash! Jason and I spent Halloween at home passing out candy to the little kiddies, I was sort of disappointed with the turn out I was thinking we were going to have way more trick-or-treaters and was overly prepared with my giant pot of candy. I took some pictures with my phone and will have to figure out how to upload those, we did carve pumpkins but I did not dress up first year in a long time. I am looking forward to Thanksgiving and more visitors to come, up next Lindsay on the 15th and Steph around the 21st! Should be fun times ahead especially with the changing of the seasons I suspect we will be snow shoeing and skiing before too long!
