Happy Birthday to my amazing fiance!

Hi everyone!  I hope you had an amazing week.  I am a day late posting because yesterday was Lupe's 47th Birthday!  I love this man so much and I am so lucky I have him in my life.....we had a fabulous day together for his Birthday!  On the Sunday before his birthday we went to Son's River Ranch and went tubing and kayaking.  I have a little bit of a picture dump here!

Here is our little "covered area with picnic table and hamock" and honestly it was perfect for just the 2 of us.

they also have much larger cabanas:

Some of these pics were taken while phone was in the water proof container and I could not see the screen well so some are blurry, but we had a fabulous time!

I also got a pretty bad sunburn even though I really did stay on top of my sunscreen....clearly, not good enough

As for other parts of my week.....I had dinner at Paige's last Friday and played with this cutie pie!

Tone started High School yesterday!

Paige finally asked me for some of my sourdough starter (named Bruno):

I fed him before the day tubing and kayaking

and here he is after!  So, Paige is having fun with all the sourdough stuff!

If you read the mid July post about being double skunked.....we are now triple skunked.....My dogs (of course) think they have been super helpful in saving me and Lupe from the baby skunks that we think are coming from behind the fence.....Lupe, however, does not agree.  He has scolded the dogs and I cannot blame him....they have now torn up several fence pickets to save us from another baby skunk (that we found dead in the yard).  He has ordered some collars for the dog along with special fencing to hopefully keep the dogs away from the fence.  Fingers crossed!

I recently bought a bag from Bags by Awesome Granny and I also got a limited edition stitch marker from Ann Tudor for Maise, the Highland Cow.   Look how adorable

I put them together for my newest Virus Shawl (that I did do some work on this past week)

I also finished my other Virus Shawl.  This thing his HUGE with 21 increases (the double circle sections down the middle)!

Before finishing, I wound into new ball:

And finished with only 9 grams left

The last thing I want to share is this cool mini projector thingy that Lupe bought for our bedroom that puts like a night sky on the cieling.....there are several differnt discs (kind of like those vintage view master things we had as kids but this is much smaller).  Look how cool our cieling looks at night.....

That is all I have.....Have a great week!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

Soooooooooo much going on.....lots of pics!

 Hey everyone.  How are yall doing?  I have had so much going on I have a ton of pics for you so buckle up and get ready!

First.....Paige went to the Lakehouse last weekend so as continuation of last weeks post, I had the grand dogs most of the early portion of last week.  Here are the knuckleheads and some pics from Paige's vacation:

Then.......all the world was right again as my boy was home!

Lupe started a new job last Monday as forklift operator....look how sexy he is with his forklift!

I got my nails done:

and we (mostly Lupe but I really did help) trimmed trees for bulky item pick up:

As you can see, I worked on my Virus Shawl.  I have new yarn coming in so I really want to finish this one.  I have about 2 more repeats left.....I did A LOT this past week (about 3-4 repeats).  Here is my progress.  I think I started the week at approx 110 grams

I also worked (very little) on my socks!

and I ordered more Must Stash Yarn.....in Sedated colorway.  I love it!

We went to visit our moms:

Lastly, some more new stash enhancements arrived.  One is the new yarn to start another Virus Shawl and some cotton for some more top down pullovers.

That is all I have.  I hope you all have an amazing week!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!