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  • Knit One, Purl Two

    I finished my first Knitted project! The result: a grey scarf for Peter (he was not at home to model it so I hired a professional for the job).

  • Isaac is so ADORABLE!

    The other day Isaac said, “Mom, when we move to Alaska we’ll have to check our blood pressure all the time to make sure our blood is not freezing!”

    Isaac just finished learning a very simple arrangement of “Beethoven’s Ninth” on the piano. Now he is constantly requesting to listen to Beethoven on the CD player! Right now he is jumping off of the couch while listening to a sonata in C minor and having the time of his life. I’ll just enjoy this classical music phase while it lasts…

  • Four Beach Bums? Really?

    As a friend of mine pointed out, we will obviously need to change our blog title when we move to Alaska. In all honesty, we really are not even ‘beach bums’ at all; we grew up in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, UT surrounded by mountains.  So our blog title is really just a lie except for the fact that we have been to the beach and we do have bums and there are four of us (except if you notice my heading at the top it says “Four Beach Bums” but then I go on to list Roger, who in fact, if counted as a family member (which I don’t) then there are five beach bums – but Roger has never been to the beach).

    Well, we are in need of a true Alaskan-themed blog title in the near future.  And, since my creative juices are not flowing, I am going to ask for help from the two or three people who actually read my family blog. If you have a great idea for a blog title for us then please leave a comment or send me an email. I might just have to come up with a prize for our favorite idea!

  • Alaska or Bust!

    Peter just called and told me he got the job in Alaska; we’ll be moving sometime this summer! I’ll share more details when I get them.

    Total miles from our home in Florida: 4,712

  • To Knit or Not to Knit…

    Here is some of my knitting progress so far:
    My first project. This is the classic knit or garter stitch. Check out the row with the holes – those are on purpose.  It’s called yarn over.
    I read in a knitting book that when you get in the rhythm of knitting, your mind can do something similar to meditating. I think I have a LONG way to go before I reach Nirvana while knitting – apparently I have a thing for licking my lips while I am working on it. Every time I stop my lips feel dry. Guess I need to relax; or try sitting in the lotus position while holding my knitting needles.

    Tonight I learned how to purl. If you alternate knit and purl you get a ribbed pattern. Sometimes I couldn’t remember if I needed to knit or purl so some of my rows (well, most of them) aren’t even.  I’ll have to work on that before I make a homemade scarf for you…

    Here’s a complete view of tonight’s work.

    And apparently I know how to use the fancy shmancy camera as well as I know how to knit. It looks like I had the camera set on black-and-white and didn’t even know it.

  • Hope you weren’t looking forward to lower orange juice prices this year…

    Enough said.

  • Our budding photographer

    Isaac got a hold of the camera and snapped this picture of Peter.


    Quintessential.

  • Mr. Basketball

    Isaac is absolutely LOVING basketball!  Watching a gaggle of 5 and 6-year-old kids play a game is hilarious; running down the court with only a couple of dribbles, kids going the wrong way, Isaac dribbling the ball under his leg and out the back (I taught him this trick) in the middle of a game, and kids trying to make impossible shots. Here are some pics of Isaac ready to shoot some hoops:


  • Bang Bang

    Here’s how Sydney’s hair disaster began:


    Here’s how it ended (after trying for about 30 minutes to get her hair untangled):


    No need to say “I told you so.” This is going to take a couple of years to grow out. Bangs do not work well with Sydney because she has a slight cowlick at the front of her natural part so they don’t lay down nicely. Oh well.

  • New Year’s Eve – The Brevard Zoo

    Since there was nothing better to do on New Year’s Eve, Peter and I took the kids to the Brevard Zoo. We thought we had coupons to get in cheaper but we found out at the ticket desk that they were for another zoo. We decided to pay full price for everyone since we were already there (thankfully we’re independently wealthy…)

    Here are a few highlights from our little trip to the little zoo (really – it’s such a small zoo that you can see everything in about 1 1/2 hours walking around).