Wednesday, December 28, 2011

It's My Birfday

Yesterday was my birthday, and I was lucky enough to continue a lifelong tradition of never working or having gone to school on my birthday.  That's one of the greatest benefits to having a birthday so close to Christmas.  The other is getting to see all of my family on my birthday.

It was a good day, despite the furnace not cooperating and my husband having wait around for the repairman, missing my birthday dinner.  (Things like this always happen to me.  Always.  I should be used to it by now, but I'm just not.)  So that made me a little sad, but by the time we got home the heat was back on and I was able to tell T.J. how good Nathan was in our favorite seafood restaurant.

My brother took these pictures:



I don't know which one I like better the one where Nathan's forcing a grin or the more natural one.  I'm so glad to have these photos I have so few good ones of us together.  They're a nice birthday gift.  (FYI, I'm wearing my April socks and Multnomah shawl I love when I can wear more than one knitted item at once!)

Another great gift from my brother is Knitting Stitches Visual Encyclopedia  I love it!  It's giving me some great design ideas, plus an idea for the palms of Nathan's owl mittens pattern coming soon.  What?  I hadn't mentioned those yet?  Heehee!  I have so many great knitting plans in the works for 2012, and all of them from my stash!

I look forward to diminishing my stash in 2012, gearing up my 2012 stash-busting challenge (more info coming soon), coming up with some interesting patterns and ideas and recapping my knitting goal for 2011: knitting a pair of socks a month for the whole year.  I did one better than that and knitted 13 pairs in 13 months! (Starting in December 2010.)

Happy New Year to all see you in 2012!

9 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday Kelly! The pictures of you and Nathan are just beautiful!
    I went through my whole stash this morning and am coming up with a game plan...I think! :)

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  2. Joyeux Anniversaire Kelly. Great photos.

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  3. Looking back, I treasure all those photos of the kids with their 'forced' smiles for the camera! What a sweet picture of the two of you! Happy, happy birthday to you!

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  4. Happy belated birthday, both photos are sweet
    also wishing you and your family a happy new year.

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  5. Happy birthday! Sounds like it was a great celebration :)

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  6. Happy birthday! Both photos are great, capturing different expressions. Littles are so wonderful for their expressiveness. And you look gorgeous!

    Birthday blessings...

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  7. Happy Birthday dear Kelly!
    Wishing you a wonderful 2012
    xo
    Linda

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  8. Happy Birthday! I love both photos, but especially the first one!

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