Long Time No See.....

Almost a year and a half has gone by and I didn't write. I will tell you why in a moment.
I moved one year ago from Highland/Yucaipa Calif. (southern California) to southeastern Idaho. I live in a tiny town of 5,000 people now.
I moved to American Falls, ID. and I love it. We get all the seasons here. No more 5 months of sweltering heat.
I love the snow. I love the frost. I love the autumn that we are having now.

Last weekend we went to a corn maze in Blackfoot ID. It was fun. This is my son and his wife.

We took the girls, my granddaughter and my kids nieces.

It was a beautiful autumn day. Warm. The trees are turning.

Already we have had ice on the birdbath in the morning.

I bought a house here that needed so much renovations. It took a long time. But I am settled in now. I need to go plant my tulip, daffodil and crocus bulbs so that I have flowers in the early spring. This is great since I could not grow tulips in SoCal.  

Now the reason why I didn't blog for 1 1/2 years. I was busy with the move but it was because after having this blog to call my own for a few years it changed. One day my granddaughter wanted an email. We decided to go with gmail. When I finished signing her up everything in my computer was put into her account.  Blogger was the worse. It won't let me change ownership back to me. It shows her email as my user name. She is just a little girl too. So I stopped blogging. I was so mad.  All my searches of what to do came up empty. The chat boards for help all said that Blogger doesn't have a way to let one select which email is the primary on Blogger. Blogger will select their gmail as the default. You can't change it.  I think Goggle is very invasive. I don't have a gmail account myself. 

Anyway, that is why I stopped blogging. I want to come back. I will just have to over look that my user name is a childs email address. Grrrrr

A post from the Past: June 5, 2008 - My son Weds

I am transferring my blog post from Live Journal over here to Blogger. I will start with the newest first so that the last post I post will be the oldest one from LJ.  That way you can scroll down and read it in order. 2008 to 2009.

June 5, 2008   My son gets married.

For my user name on my first blog I picked idaho_bound because my goal is to move to Idaho before the year is over. My son, his wife and some of my family live there. I am in So. Calif. where a lot of family live too.

I just need a big change in my life after loosing my daughter last year and my husband several years ago. I have my granddaughter living with me and I think it would be good for her to live in a small town.
We will have to adjust to colder weather. I think we will be ok. I get tired of the summers here that are over 100 degrees.

Here she is at the mall in Idaho with her cousin.
My grandkids Peanut and Bryan.

 

And here I am with my kids in Idaho. The son on the left just got married and we are getting ready to go to the church.


Here is Bryan and Peanut, Bryan is dressed for the wedding but Peanut is not. She got ready at the church since her dress is white. In the background you can see my son Dustin the groom and my other grandson Trevor.



Here is the little guy, Trevor. 16 months old.

A post from the Past: June 19, 2008

I am transferring my blog post from Live Journal over here to Blogger. I will start with the newest first so that the last post I post will be the oldest one from LJ.  That way you can scroll down and read it in order. 2008 to 2009.

June 19, 2008

Ugh, It is going to be 104 today. It is only 10am and it is already 93 F.

In American Falls, Idaho where I want to move (soon) it is a lovely 82 degrees. Ahhhhhhhhh perfect for working in the yard, sitting with a cup of tea and knitting. 

I hate this heat. I will do my house work and then jump in the POOL!!

A post from the Past: December 22, 2008

I am transferring my blog post from Live Journal over here to Blogger. I will start with the newest first so that the last post I post will be the oldest one from LJ.  That way you can scroll down and read it in order. 2008 to 2009.

December 22, 2008

 Our trip to Idaho was fun and exciting. We got up very early Sunday Morning to make a 7:54am flight to Denver.  We had no trouble arriving on time all ready for the cold. 
I had my Noro striped scarf on and my serpentine mitts!
Peanut had her puffy coat and was wearing her snow boots.
Here we are in the airport in Ontario California.

Peanut didn't want her pic taken.

This was peanuts first plane trip. She just loved it so much.  We first flew to Denver Colorado. Peanut was studying the safety folder.


It was a fun flight. I was disappointed that we only got juice, no snack, not even a freaking donut. :(
So we arrive in Denver. We had a 4 hour layover. We did go have a nice lunch. Then we had the info that our flight might be cancelled to Idaho Falls. The earlier flight was cancelled and the flight to Boise was cancelled. There were some people who had been waiting 2 days to get to Idaho Falls.
We did get on the plane. We had sun in Denver with 7 degrees F.  You could see the ice on the runway. (see below) The people who had the canceled flight were on stand-by for our flight. I feel sorry for them that they were not given seats and they just had to wait for people not to show up for their flights. I think the airline should add another plane to the line-up and get those people on their way. After all they did buy tickets for that flight on that day.
(notice I made my hair reddish-brown?) I like it.
All in all it was a fun trip with Peanut.  We were lucky to arrive in Idaho Falls. The pilot told me that he would land in any conditions, that nothing bothers him.
I guess they are use to a little snow. 
It was dark by the time we arrived. We were about an hour late.
The parking lot was full of snow and the roads were all white. It was so pretty. Bambi and Dustin (my son and his wife) were there to greet us. It was so wonderful.  We got to Dustin's house and it was still snowing.  But cozy inside.

Peanut on the plane, happy to be landing in Idaho Falls.

A post from the Past: December 24, 2008

I am transferring my blog post from Live Journal over here to Blogger. I will start with the newest first so that the last post I post will be the oldest one from LJ.  That way you can scroll down and read it in order. 2008 to 2009. 

December 24, 2008

We are having a very good time up here in Idaho. It doesn't even feel as cold as I though it would. To me it doesn't feel any colder than when it gets cold at my house. Maybe it is the length of the winters here that starts to get to people.

For now I am loving this weather and snow. Everything is all white, and clean looking. Peanut is having so much fun. She totally gets tired out after playing in the snow for a while. The first day she went out about 3 times. Then she came in and took a nap.

Here we are outside having fun.











We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
May the love of Jesus bring you the greatest joy, the sweetest peace, and the highest hope! 

A post from the Past: March 24, 2009

I am transferring my blog post from Live Journal over here to Blogger. I will start with the newest first so that the last post I post will be the oldest one from LJ.  That way you can scroll down and read it in order. 

March 24, 2009

Well first with the good news.I made a decision to move to Idaho this summer. I had to wait to get permanent guardianship of my granddaughter Peanut before I could move forward.  Now I have complete custody. The dad is in jail. And we only have one more obstacle.  That is to get permission from the judge to leave the state.  I got an e-mail from my attorney today and he said that he doesn't anticipate any problems.  Pray for us please.
What I want to do is let Peanut finish 1st grade here. Last school day is 6/11 and then move to Idaho and she can begin 2nd grade in Idaho in mid-August.
I want a smooth transition.  I know that there will be a lot of work to do to get this done.
If you have any moving tips or advice please leave me a comment. If you have tips or advice on moving with kids, leave me a comment too.

Ok, so here is my latest Finished Object, FO.  They are crocheted. Yeah I left knitting for 2 days.  I like how the crocheting changed the way that STR yarn looks.  I think the mittens look like Indian Corn.
Pattern: Drops Crocheted Mittens with Wavy Border.
Size: small
Hook: D
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts, Socks that Rock meduims weight
(150 yds. or .4 skein)
Colorway: Count chuckula
Mods: I knit 7 rows of 2X2 ribbing at the wrist.  Also I only did 2 rows of ruffle.



Here Kitty kitty....here kitty.

LOL, no kitties were hurt in the photo. My hand is about 6 inches above her head. If you look closely you can see she is licking her foot.