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Today is Elizabeth Zimmerman's 100th birthday! For anyone that doesn't know who Elizabeth was, she is well known in knitting circles. She said she never invented anything having to do with knitting but felt that she just reworked tried and true techniques in knitting and called it "uninventing". 8-9-10 was a great date for her birthday, she was a whiz at numbers and worked out a percentage method for knitting any sweater. She also created a sweater that is a crazy knit. The Baby Surprise Sweater is knit flat and must be folded like origami to form the sweater sleeves and body! I LOVE knitting the Tomten sweater and the kiddos have looked so cute in them - with or without hoods, buttons of zippers! From doll size to kid size these are great little sweaters! I just recently tried a pair of knit pants from a pattern EZ had in the Knitting Almanac. They were easy and will keep the little guy who wears them very warm! Elizabeth's February Baby Sweater has been mod...

I'm told that The Tiger asked a million times while driving to "Hannah Montana" if we were going to go to "The Chico." After having him with us for just a few days, if The Tiger's folks said he asked a million times, it was AT LEAST that many times! (yak, yak, yak!)  The kiddos had an outstanding time! On the way home The Tiger asked if we could move to "The Chico" so they could swim everyday of every visit! - Cool idea!

I've been working on sweaters for the kiddos to wear back to school this fall. I don't have their Christmas sweaters done but the spirit moved me this way! Tiger's and Sadie Lou Who's sweaters: Pattern: Wonderful Wallaby Main Color Yarn: Cascade 220, Ecru Stripe: Paton Yarn, Forest and Rosewood Amount: 4 skeins main color, 1 skein stripe color Needles: 8 US, 6 US

Hubby loves shopping at two places: the internet and Costco. Today he receive a nine pound piece of dinosaur poo in the mail - not a Costco sale!   The Tiger wasn't sure he wanted to touch it, thinking it would be soft and squishy. Later he asked, "How did Dinosaurs poo rocks?" Tiger biffed it today but saved the ice cream cone!

The Purl Gurl and her family arrived and it has been so nice to have ALL the family home again! The California Dreamin' Gal was looking out for her Momma and got the ball rolling for the family photos.YEA!  The kiddos spent all one day planning a "carnival", we had a catapult toss, bike races, frisbee toss, lemonade stand, bow and arrow stand, and foot races! WOW!  And they're off..... And California Boy wins!

It has been a busy week with family coming and going... Chloe and Cameron enjoyed their Mom's old bike. Chloe has done a little baking. I think she prefers cooking with her Granny, I do things the quick and easy way and her Granny cooks from scratch. Cameron has been doing some creative building. This lovely cabin has taken three days!

The two grandkiddos and I went to Helena to visit their Aunt Chick, we went to the Saturday Farmer's Market, and took a tour of the town on the train,    We drove by the Governor's Mansion - old and new... We prefer the old house and wish the governor still lived there! On the tour the guide talked about how the old mining town burned down three times until the town finally erected a fire tower on a hill in the middle of town! The guide also told us about a WWII pilot that on a $100 bet, flew between the two crosses on the Cathedral. He won the bet but lost his pilot's license!   On Sunday we went to Boulder Hot Springs...  Great times!