There's always room for J-E-L-L-O

So, if you left cc early last night, {and alot of you did} you missed out!!!

I'm just going to give you a little taste of the conversation...

"How much Jello did it take to fill the bath tub?"
"Alot.. but you use the big boxes."

hahhhahaha You had to be there! But for all of you out there wondering, I took a few min. this morning to figure it out!

A big box of Jello {which is definately suggested} makes 4 cups.
1 gallon = 16 cups, so 1 gallon of Jello would take 4 big boxes.
A standard size tub {found at homedepot.com} is 42 gallons.

That means it takes 168 big boxes of Jello to fill a standard sized tub! :D


That's alota Jello!

And you thought you'd never use what you learned in math class!
{Incase you were wondering.. no, it wasn't me, and orange.}

I maybe might get the gas tank for my motorcycle back from the painter tonight! I'm not holding my breath or anything, but it would be really nice! Then the hubby and I need to make a couple adjustments and change the oil and I'll be on the road again. It has been in the 70's here for about a week, and its killin' me to not have my bike, especially since I missed all the nice weather last year!! :(

Speaking of the hubby, he bought a jeep this weekend!! It's pretty cool, and he is VERY happy.



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Picture Day

So, it has been a looong time since I posted any pictures huh?

Let's see what I have in my photobucket account... my knit picks order came in yesterday!!!


This is natural yarn that I'm going to try to dye all by myself. Any color suggestions?


It came in a kit with this wonderful Cat Bordhi book and 2 3.00mm circular metal Knit Picks needles, very nice.


But, this is what I was really looking forward to..!!!

My Harmony Options needle tips! They are sooo pretty and smooth! I'm in love!
I "needed" these for helmet liners :D
Definately a good thing they are here, everytime I turn around, I'm getting farther behind!
My brother-in-law left for boot camp yesterday, my friends brother leaves next week, and a guy at work is going in March! Not to mention my daughter and her fiance.

Ok... deep breaths.. happy not behind at all thoughts..

I finished the hooded blankie for work baby one!



Which was bad news for my unsuspecting little demo baby...

"you want me to try on what?"

hahaha


aawww

Isn't she cute!! It seems to work.

Here are the wash clothes that are going with the towel;

ABC blocks


rubber ducky


doggy


and the cat in the hat

They were pretty easy and fast, but the patterns don't really show up all that well, not even on the solid color. I was kinda disappointed, but now I know.

I was going to make a bath set for work baby 2 also, but I think I'm done working with cotton for a while! I'll figure out something else for him :)

The wedding blankie is on its way.


I'm not very far yet, but its started.


I also started a scarf that missed the list. I bought this yarn last winter, and never quite got around to knitting it. Opps


It kinda looks flourescent in these pics, but it is a really pretty color.

It got farther than this before I went to bed. The pattern is going very fast, a really good thing since winter will be over in like 2 weeks! hahaha
One of the perks of living in the desert!

Ok, enough yarn already! I know, there may be one or two of ya that would like to hear about something else... right?

Well, the paint job on my bike... remember that? the bike that just got rebuilt last fall?!?

Any who, even though I have "paint savers" on the tank, the paint has still decided to start pealing up around my vented gas cap.. :(

My hubby took the tank off and drained it for me last weekend and I'm going to take it back to the painter on Friday!

Hopefully the painter will get it fixed quickly so I can get it back and do a little fine tuning on the bike before it starts getting too nice out!

Oh, I started doing yoga Tuesday night! It was alot of fun, I'll keep you informed!

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Happy Halloween!!

So, my club went on our aniversary trip this weekend. Good times, good times. Prepare yourself.. here come the pics.
Now, don't worry, I'm only going to post some of them.. not all 130.

We started off Friday morning meeting for breakfast.


One of my sisters thought that she may have sprained her ankle.. more on that later.

Here she is lookin' too cool with her foot up,


while the efforts to fix the first break down of the day started.


Here's my bike :)


After spending 2 hours at the damn, we got back on the road (- one sister and one bike).

At Rosie's, we discovered our next break!
The oldest bike on the trip blew out the rear brake caliper..
well, that's why they have front brakes.. hahaha!
We weren't going to let a little thing like brakes slow us down (hehe punny).

Back on the road!!

This is probably the coolest bike on the trip..


even in the middle of the desert with a flat tire! Break #3.


Our VP handled the flat very well, so we decided to put the injured in the tow truck instead of her.


We spent a couple hours at Mother Road Harley, then got back on the road for an uneventful final 60 miles!!

3 hour trip = 9 hours

Turns out, BJ's!! (you suck!) does not allow clubs in their bar...
That OK though, we found McKee's around the corner, which is cool, cause we kinda have a thing for Irish Bars anyways!!

This guy made us fresh chips and salsa.


Saturday, the sun rose to reveal "London Bridge Days" in full swing!
Who knew!!
Since we were traped by the parade, we decided to watch it for a little while.

This is the Lake Havasue chapter of the Women in the Wind,


and here's a very bad a$$ k-9!


After the Lake Havasue Mommy's club went by (one kid kept running into his mom's leg with his power wheels hummer hahahaha), we decided it was time to find something a little more entertaining..

We rode over to check out the local biker bar (while it was still light out).

This is the ausome view from the front door.

(yep, that's the lake)

And here is the bike parking!!


When the parade finally finished, we were able to get across the bridge to the island!
It's a desert island.. like a deserted island with lots of people hahahah!

Hey, that explains why the 3 hour trip took soo long!! a three hour tour.. hahaha sorry.

Here we are on one of the light houses.

I'm a bad a$$ can you tell?

Here are a couple pics that I took while we were there..






After cruisin' around the island, my injured sister finally let us take her to the hospital..
It was way more than a sprain!!
I can't remember what its called, but the part of the bone that the tendon is attached to chipped away from the rest of the bone!!!

She rode 80 some miles like that!!


After they released her, we had dinner at a groovie brewery on the island.

This was our dinner view!!

That's THE London bridge!

There were a bunch of people meeting there for a Halloween party!

he he he

I played with the settings on my camera for a little bit!

I like it!

After dinner, we found that the party had not yet started at the biker bar.

Our VP said she had seen something going on back up the street; bikes, people partyin' on the sidewalk, so we decided to go back and check it out!

We pulled up, parked like pros, got off our bikes, and walked up to the party all cool like.

"Where's the bar?" almost in unison.. which was met by much laughter!?
and confusion...
by us!?

They pointed at the signs above their heads...




We couldn't have made up a funnier story..
Turns out, we just pulled up to the NA/ AA halloween party and asked where the bar was!!
I'm not sure who thought it was funnier.. us or them!!

There was a woman there with a dry erase board strapped to the front of her.. she pointed to it and informed us that this might be our sign! hahaha

Jesus was there, and he thought it was hilarious!!


Needless to say, we decided to head back to the bar,

where the costumes had....
well... less meaning..


We went as bikers..


Sunday, we had a nice ride home. Slow, steady, and no break downs!!

3 hour trip = about 5 hours.. but we stoped alot!

Our lesson from the trip, beware the magnetic jewlry, it angers the flatware!!

Oh yeah, and always be on the look out for signs! :)

I almost forgot to post the pics of everybody with nobody!!!
Here ya go :D

The P w/ nobody


The VP w/ nobody


a founding member w/ nobody


the Sec/Tres. w/ nobody


our new hang around (and my best friend) w/ nobody


and, last but not least.. baby maker w/ nobody!


And one more of my bike.. for the road!!


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