Suprise!

This morning I woke up to an unexpected and not really welcome surprise. If you live in Anchorage, or the surrounding areas you already know what I'm talking about. SNOW. I know, I know, we live in Alaska, isn't that what it does here? Well, it does, and occasionally it dumps like this during spring. But I am soooooo ready for the warmth and lack of bulky clothing. Plus the cheetah 2 chariot we ordered for the boys came in yesterday. We promptly went for a lovely walk. There was still snowy patches, but overall the path was dry. The sun was shining, I had falsely believed we were done.

So last night, due to John working out in the Valley, we stayed at my parents so that we could go pick up a rental car after they were asleep (we only wanted to rent it for one day, he is working the 6am-12am shift). We had walked over with the shiny new chariot thinking it would be great for me to just walk home in the morning. At 1:45am, when we picked up the car the snow had just started, but it was barely sprinkling and really even looked like rain. The roads were still dry and I thought it was just a passing thing. But when we woke up at 7am, there was 5-6inches on the ground! Wet and sloppy, my least favorite snow!

So, out of a weird stroke up luck, I had worn my snow boots last night. So I still had no problem walking home, a little more resistance pushing the chariot, but it did great! The boys were toasty warm inside, which was a good thing since they were just in jammies (though they did have a fleece blanket).

I guess what it really showed me was that I need to not let the weather hold me back! I had already decided this mentally, but today really cemented that even 5" of sloppy nasty snow is no reason to stay inside!

*But I still can't wait for summer!*

Knitting Success and today

I did it! Without much pain or struggle I completed my knitting goals for this month. I knit two dishcloths, a pair of mittens, and a hat. As well as the sleeves for my sister's buttony sweater, half a baby sweater, half a hat, and swatched for a few other things (but they weren't on the list).

Ta Da (Yes, I realize that I have already posted a pic of this hat but I am doing it again for good measure):

I am excited to start on next months projects!

Today I also went for a walk in the snow, it was wonderful to get outside and my toddler was wore out enough that he took a three hour nap afterwards! Plus I am pretty sure I burned some good calories too. My sister (who initiated this whole walk) took a pic on her blackberry, but hasn't sent it to me yet. So I will just have to post the one I just took from our front door.

My baby is four months old today, and I can hardly believe it. I just took this pic of him napping, I think the walk wore him out as well. He really enjoyed looking around at everything!

As I was taking pictures, Corbin asked that I take one of him, so here he is yelling "cheese" as emphatically as possible. :)