Saturday Night

Before we went to dinner at Chili's the kids convinced David he needed to push them on the swing together.

Here they are swinging like "2 year old", just a little baby swing.

Here they are swinging a like a 5 year old.

And finally like an 8 year old! See? Kids need Mom's to keep the house together but they need their Dad's to make up crazy games and do all kinds of silly things! At least it works that way in our house.

Then, we went out for dinner at Chili's. Thankfully, we got there before the mad rush around 5:15 pm. The kids were so well behaved....it is tempting us to start going out for dinner more often in the future.

David & I ordered the Presidente margaritas that came in this cool shaker, which you could purchase for $2. We have enough alcohol gear at our house so we declined. They were pretty good and not too badly priced considering the volume you got. A bit light on the tequila but, it is to be expected based on the price.

The Princess with her purse! Nothing in it but some change but....must now carry a purse. Lord help me when puberty hits. My niece, Cwen, in California was at her first Junior High dance with a boy in her computer class...how can she be that old???????
Finally, some knitting content. I have been a bit stressed, hence very little knitting going on in Chez HB. However, this yarn floated to the top of my stash and the Clapotis pattern was tempting me because it is just interesting enough without being totally tough plus. Linda...I am trying to finish that shawl for you but...there is a motivation issue because I have done it so recently. I will try to get it done one of these days.

I am using Cotton Ease on size 10.5 needles. Plus, I don't use stitch markers but instead purl the stitches that are going to be dropped. How do you determine which one to purl on the right side??? Well, when you are purling the wrong side after doing the yo, you knit that stitch on the wrong side and purl it on the right side. It drops just the same as a knit stitch and no stitch markers to deal with or find that many to use on a shawl sized Clapotis!!!

We went out for dinner last night at Chili's.