Summer is ending sooooo quickly!

Hello everyone!

So lately Tiemus and I have been doing a lot of celebrating!  After my birthday came his birth week which included several teeny tiny nerd gifts (a D20 lollipop, Link's shield filled with mints, a Gengar keychain, a travel cup with the molecular structure of caffeine on it) as well as an apple pie, breakfast in bed, and a surprise birthday dinner with all his friends and family.  Mom has already warned me not to set the bar too high or the years to come might be difficult, but I figure its fun to do these things and I have a whole lot of time on my hands right now so now is the time to be doing dorky and semi-romantic things!

Beyond that I have had a pretty great week. I have been knitting away on my afghan!  I went to the knitting store on the 5th and picked up all of my yarn (which will be fun to pack but I will figure it out).  I have 10 different colours for the afghan -- a deep but bright purple, yellow, orange, clown-nose-red, sky blue, royal blue, kelly green, lime green, pink, and white  or as Tiemus' mom and I say CRAYON COLOURS.   I don't know what I am going to use to put it all together but I am considering using black or trying to find a different bright colour for the edge and such. During last week I managed to knit 2 and 1/3 squares already (which is especially cool because I am doing cables which aren't difficult so much as they are more time consuming).

Birth week ran Monday to Saturday and I've already given you the brief overview.  Saturday was our two year anniversary and so I tricked Tiemus into believing I was taking him out for a special anniversary meal.  I even blindfolded him and lead him into the restaurant (and into a tree and into a chair) but when he opened his eyes -- there was his parents and Mike and Fran and Torin and Iman!  It was pretty nifty.

Oh and on Saturday during the day I went to Bainbridge which is an island that you can take a ferry to from downtown Seattle.  We walked around this cute little town and went to this gorgeous knitting shop and I picked out a secondary project.  I am now ALSO making these really gorgeous fingerless gloves (in a kind of choral pink).

Also, the boys have recently rediscovered Rock Band so there's been a lot of plastic instrument playing as of late.

On Sunday Tiemus and I went to the zoo!!  We saw everything and it was awesome.  There will be facebook pictures of my summer adventures in the next couple of weeks but I am holding off until I am just about ready to leave.

Anyhow, that's the news!

Miss you and love you,

Amanda