Well, here are all of the contenders.
Let's see, we'll just cut all of these up.
Put them into the jar. Mmmm. Smells like Raspberry Lemonade. What!?! Haley is asleep. We have a contest to run here. I'm just gonna have to do this myself.
It's Mike. Hey, and he knits, too. How exciting.
The Chicken came in first with 15 votes. So I changed over the layout late last night and added some of the widgets.
It's a lemon/lime/orange theme complete with lots of lemony treats. Haley keeps begging me for a Lemonhead, but I know as soon as I give her one, she'll go running for the trash can. I couldn't waste a Lemonhead like that. She's also already tried to steal the bag. I had to chase her down to get it back. 
Bridget made me a washcloth set. The green and white yarn was hand dyed by herself. It looks like she used teenie tiny size two or three needles to make the yellow and orange dishcloth. I think Bridget is the most wonderful person.
There were some fun little items, too. A nail file with sheep, I promise not to use it to sharpen any of my bamboo needles. Yummy smelling lavender soap in a yarn mold. It's from one of her local farms and is made from goat's milk. And the "Eat Cheese Or Die" button. I think that was my motto when I was pregnant.
The rest of the goodies were some Lemon Cake, ingenious to send cake, Lemon Tea on the Go, and two balls of 100% cotton by Garnstudio from Norway. Her LYS is one of the few US shops that carries it.
She came all the way down to celebrate Haley's birthday with us. And she stayed one night with us. After that she decided that we were way more fun than Grandma's house and she'll be flying into LAX from now on. We did keep her entertained though. Between the party and the fair,and then we decided that the beach had to be on the agenda, too. 
It gave Skye and me an opportunity to play with the new camera. Using the beach feature. It's suppose to keep the glare out and keep from having dark silhouettes.
Using the night sceanary feature at the fair. These were actually right after dusk.
Of course, it wouldn't be playing with a camera if yarn weren't involved. The super duper closeup. This is the first frogging of the camera bag.
It was a very tiring weekend spent mostly in the sun. Then work was beyond crazy for the next four days. Now that I've caught up on the blog and the emails, I'm ready to start all over again.
This year, she turned 5 years old and we went all out for her. There was a bouncy house, croquet, horseshoes and everyone dressed up for a Princess Picnic in the Park.
It was a lot of work to get ready for this party. I don't think that I spent too much on it, either. For instance, I baked the cake myself. It was fun. Chocolate cake with strawberry filling. We had grand ideas of tiers and polka dots. That didn't happen though. 
Haley had a great time and there are lots of presents. We got a lot of things that she had asked for. She's been keeping me busy with various board games and Hannah Montana sing a longs. Being 5 is exhausting. 
The celebration never stopped for the whole weekend. Various family members got together for lunch after the party. Skye and I were able to escape for a romantic dinner at McCormick and Schmicks for his birthday. A few friends that weren't able to make the early party time joined us for the afternoon. That was spent at the Orange County Fair. 
I just had to share this little guy. He's an Angora goat. He looked so hot and like he could really care less how excited I was about his wool.
The bag was murder to make. First, I tried to use left over cotton/silk yarn. The I ran out of yarn. So, I frogged back and added a white stripe with other cotton. That looked retarded. So the whole thing got frogged. Then I found this wool yarn. I was binding off and somehow had dropped three stitches and had to frog back an inch. Grrr. I'm still thinking about putting a soft cotton liner in the bag to protect it a little more.
The yarn is one skein of Malabrigo Lace in Cuarenta and cute little stitchmarkers by YouAndMeAndBead.
Haley and I had a little fun with the camera at a party we were at a while ago. I was trying to get a cute Mommy-Daughter picture, but Haley wasn't having any of that. 
This is her current favorite face to make. You may of seen it before.
What's that!?! She just turned into a tiger!
Okay, sure, I'll join in the fun.
Oh, I wasn't suppose to do that. 
Finally.
Pattern: Mini Scrubby Loofahs 
I like the green/brown/white ones. They remind me of Italian ice cream. What's it called, spumoni? 
Here's one of the white cotton minis. I was able to get two of these out of the leftover yarn from the big scrubby I made before.
We got LEGO Indiana Jones Wii a couple of weeks ago. It is way fun. Then SkyeGuy got me the DS version. In case you have ever wondered, the two games are completely different. Something about graphics and data space. They both follow the same stories, the movies. But they use different scenes and the play is changed to use the touch screen.
Here is Zander.
Those are just monitors on both the babies. Heart rate and things like that. They should be home this holiday weekend, so I plan on having more pictures. And adding a lot of baby sweaters to my queue. These kids are just too darn cute.
