Chicago...

What a weekend! I left on Thursday for Chicago and it was a great weekend. My flight was supposed to leave at 7:00 pm. EST but with the storm coming in I decided to call to see if I could get on a different flight, and luckily I got on the 1:29 p.m. EST flight and made it into Chicago at 2:30 p.m. CST. I was so happy to get there and see the girls!

Ava was so sweet. I walked in, put my arms out for a hug, and she came right to me! It was very sweet :)

This is Lila Olive. She was having some sleeping problems, but as long as I was holding her, she fell asleep right away. It surprised me that she is 9 lbs. 2 oz already, but really skinny.

This is my niece dog, Bella. She is an Anatolian Shepherd and all White. She is beautiful but a little crazy. She isn't like most anatolian's because she isn't as fierce and stuff.

Close up of her face. She is just such a beautiful dog.

Ava loves to eat, even if just a little something, she loves it! When I would eat my cereal in the morning, she would want bites of it.

We went to the beach on Saturday for about an hour. It was fun while we were there, but the girls started getting a little cranky. Ava had on her bathing suit and was ready to go swimming!

She is always giving stuff to everyone, but then she takes it back. It just makes me laugh. When she gets older, they will teach her to share.

I wanted to get some good pictures for Drew and Kristine to have delvoped and put on the wall going up the staircase in their house. This one I will turn to Black and White and then have it frame for them. Along with a few others I took.

Ava has a BMW car that she likes to ride in the driveway. I was puching her around the drivway, then she wanted to push me...

Lila is almost 8 weeks old and she is so alert. She has the biggest and most beautiful eyes I have ever seen :)

I still can't get over how much I love these little girls! I really feel like an aunt now and it feels great! I can't wait to see them again soon. I will need to plan another trip to Chicago as soon as I can!

In other news, I finished a hat for my brother and it fits him perfectly! It's a hat with a theme... GO IRISH! It's a Notre Dame hat because we are all big ND fans! I also think I will be signing up for a photography class from here to work on my skills and really get to know my camera better. I would take the intermediate class. We will see...

I will be back soon :)

Winner!!!!!

I entered my socks in the Alrington County Fair this past week and they won 2nd place!!! I was so proud of them. I called my mom right away to tell her since they were her Spring Forward socks! She was so excited and proud that she was getting award winning socks :)

Noro Silk Garden Sock yarn! I'm doing a KAL with some of my fave ladies, Wendy, Chan, and Stacey for the Anastasia Socks toe up. I have never done toe up, but I'm excited to try it!

Love these amazing colors! Just perfect for my feet!!!

Look who has come out to play, the CLAPPEE!!!!! Oh how I've missed it! I worked on this for a LONG time in the fall, but put it down because I just couldn't bare the thought of how long it was going to take me. Well, I sat down on Monday and realzied that I don't really have that much more to go. I could be done now, but I like my scarves long, and my cousin will too :)

These colors are just fantastic and perfect for the receipiant. She wanted a variety of greens :)

Wendy and I took one of our knitting friends and another of our none knitting friends to A Tangled Skein in MD for a Sunday trip. It was so fun to eat at Franklin's variety store. I picked up a few things for my swap parter as well as a nice ice cube tray that makes skulls and crossbones for my dad!

This is some fantastic yarn I picked up. It's Araucania Ranco Multi in an amazing colorway. I picked it up for socks, but it might turn into something different... Who knows.

All the colors are just fantastic.

These are my Sailor's Delight socks I started a week or so ago. I love them so far. They are Dream in Color Smooshy in the Flamingo Pie colorway. YUM!

Detail shot of the socks..

I have finished the heel and the decrease and I'm moving in on the rest of the foot.

The detail is just fantastic, in my opinion.

My socks are getting better and better the more I knit. It's been the easist project to keep in my small Vera Bradley bag and put in my purse for the bus or even with friends!

My friend Ora has a BEAUITFUL garden of just herbs and peppers. I got out my camera for our weekly Tuesday night dinner and took some pictures of her beautiful peppers. They are HOT!! The brownish pepper is a Chocolate Habenero, on the information tag it says "intensely hot" I will not be trying one of those! :)

I love the detail that my camera can pick up on different things. I'm so glad that I bought my Nikon D60. It's been so fun to practice taking pictures again. I think I'm getting better... slowly!

Hopefully, I'll have a FO after this weekend!!! Wendy and I are going up to her parents campground in PA for a weekend away and a Hog Roast!!! Oh I love a good hog roast. Should I wear the shirt we had made for the last one we had? :) It has a picture of a hog with an apple in its mouth, pretty funny!!!