Due to poor (or really good, depending on how you look at it!) planning on our part we have 4 birthdays in a span of five weeks!! Matt's was Saturday and *A's* is on Friday *J's* is15 days later and *N's* is 16 days later! So we kicked off the weekend with Matt's birthday. And poor guy even though he begins the birthday season- he usually doesn't get a cake for his birthday since we know we'll be SOOOOO tired of birthday cake by March so he gets a dirt cake or ice cream cake or something like that. But this year he requested a cheesecake, so I searched allrecipes.com (great site- go there if you don't already!!) and found NY cheesecake 3 and boy it was delicious!! With TWO and ONE-HALF POUNDS of cream cheese it should've been. It's been a tradition with the kids to get him a T-shirt. The first year when our oldest was 3 he drew a nice picture and we put it on transfer paper and ironed it onto a plain white T-shirt. One year it was superman, one year the general lee (dukes of hazzard), etc This year *J* was in a mood when we went to pick out T-shirts and he was insistant on a black T-shirt that says "sorry, I'm taken" with a ball and chain on it. So we did. I doubt he'll wear it out of the house, but it's a funny work shirt. (Matt's MUCH older than me! Well not MUCH, but I'm not hitting 35 yet at ALL!!)
And back on some knitting content finally!! I've been eyeing the start blanket that I saw on Ravelry. It's crocheted and I don't crochet the best, but I figured I'd give it a try. It is SO easy and SO cool. I love it! I started a olive green one for my cousin who's expecting a bonus baby 9 years after her youngest was born =) They have four girls so I figure even if this baby is a girl, she certainly wouldn't mind if it's not pink and frilly. So I"m making it with Vanna's choice yarn and if the baby is a girl I'll edge it with pink scallops, if it's a boy I'll edge it in tan. I only had one skein of yarn so I need to get more.
I had two skeins of simply soft in sage and dark sage so I decided to make them into a star blanket as well (must've been in a green mood that day I bought yarn!) I used up all the sage green so I'll just keep using the dark sage until it's gone and then call it done. It's already a decent newborn size so however much bigger it gets will just be a bonus. So many people at church are pregnant and one lady knows she's having her second boy so this will probably be for her. I may make a few other neutral ones and edge them in blue or pink once the baby is born. *N* wanted her unicorn in the picture for one =)
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Happy Birthday to everyone!
Love the blanket!