LEGOs, LEGOs,Everywhere!

Got a flier from the Oak Lawn Library the other day, Chris brought it home. The NILTC (Northern Illinois Lego Train Club) was going to have a set-up for 2 days at the library. So we (Ed and I, Chris had to work) took the boys. WOW! All I can do is post the pics and give little comments about them because words can't describe how cool this was. They will be there from 1-4 on Sunday and then they move on. You can go visit them tomorrow (Sunday) or you can visit their website http://www.niltc.org/ and find out where they will be next. I hope you enjoy the pics and get a chance to see their work.



I didn't catch all their names, but these are some of the very helpful builders of this set up. In the second picture the guy making the funny face is Kevin and the guy in the hat is Adam. They all answered every question asked not matter how many times they were asked. They were all very, very kind and happy to answer questions from even the smallest future builder.

This is
the first building I saw when I walked into the room, and a closer look at the street level of the same building.

The was a truck accident! It looks like it was pretty bad, and that the entire police force was called in. I wonder if it was a bus load of prisoners. Oh, wait it looks like two delivery trucks. I see why the entire police force was called in can you? Anybody got any coffee or a nice cold glass of milk to go with all these doughnuts?

Yep, you're looking at the Ecto-1. Who ya gonna call? LOL! right in the middle of the second picture you can see the Amazing Spiderman and in the third, The Green Goblin. I didn't get a picture of Doctor Octopus, but he was there. There were some rooftop sentries and a little further down, a rooftop party.




We all knew that White Castles needed help. LOL! Do you think they have it right for the future of gas prices? Ah, here we see a productive LEGO employee..... Oh, wait, she's xeroxing her butt! Look! It's a gunfight! "He lives in a pineapple under the see, it Spongebob Squarepants", Patrick Star, Squidward Tenticles and, Mr, Eugen Krabs of the famous Krusty Krab.

Looks like there's something going on down there. AHHHH! I see zombies and skeletons! It's a haunted house! Why are these people picnicking in front of the haunted house? Do they want to be zombie food?

Right next to the haunted house was an old time toll booth. Then there was another great movie tribute.... The Palace Hotel. (C'mon..... you all know what movie that was from right?) And to keep up the tribute there's the Good Ol' Boys tour bus. (Did you figure out what movie yet?) Then there was the Millennium Falcon! Can you imagine having to build that? If you look closely there's a shout out to the Olympics as well. It looks like the Canadian Curling team against Hogwarts. I wonder if magic is allowed?

This was just about half of what we saw! I'll blog the other half tomorrow.

New Year, New Blog

OK, so it's not really a new blog, I've just decided the change a few things. I have decided that I'm not going to warn you if there is knitting content. It's my blog and I am very proud of the projects I complete and I am excited about them when I finish them, so I'm going to make sure you all see them.

So let's start with the Christmas goodies. The boys and I put together a gingerbread house. Well I put it together and they got to decorate it. It turned out kinda cute.




At Stitch n Bitch we had a gift swap. I made out pretty good with a fabulous skein of sock yarn. And at the Christmas party for work I got two more skeins of really nice sock yarn. It's really awesome that my co-workers know me so well.





The boys got LOTS of LEGOs for Christmas and they couldn't be happpier! Deaglan got a scooter from Santa, Padric got a toy helicoper, and Joseph got..... a guitar. He loves learning to play. Here he is with my sister's beau, Shane.

Shane agreed to help Joe learn how to play.


After Christmas we decided to go to the Museum of Science and industry, aka: the Choo Choo Museum, Padric's favorite place. He only looks tiny inside the big tractor wheel.



In case you didn't already know I'm a volunteer there. I man microscopy Science Connection Carts. I get to teach kids (young and old) about microscopes. It's pretty cool. My spot is past the Whispering Gallery in the Imaging Lab. I volunteer 2 Sundays a month.


Nana and Papa gave the boys some awesome Lego sets and a fill a box at the Lego store. They crammed those things! Here's the "boat" Chris made for Padric out of the Legos they filled the box with.


I didn't go with them to the Lego store. Nope I went on a Knitting Fieldtrip to Marengo, Illinois to the most magical place in the world (so far), The Fold! It's a yarn shop. I bought the most beautiful light grey yarn for a sweater I'll be knitting for my sister and a skein of Mountain Colors sock yarn for myself, because you can't have enough sock yarn (4 skeins since the middle of December...... that'll make 3 pairs of socks, I'll have toasty toes!) Since I have the minivan we drove my car for the field trip. Well I had to do something with all the car seats. I think it's the new Honda Family concept car.

I just sent this scarf to the Middle East to a friend in the military. That's Shane again, he's such a sport to model it for me!

And I am currently working on a scarf for a friend of mine. I love the colors. He asked that it be striped, unfortunately for me he's picky and wanted the stripes lenghtwise. It will be gorgeous when I'm finished. I might have to keep it though!



Ricky (Padric) loves building with his legos. He built 6 "puppies". Pretty good for a 3 year old. He then proceeded to line them up and jump them Evil Kenevil style.

And last night the Sullivan's rented out the outdoor ice rink here in Evergreen Park and had the whole clan out for a night on the ice. I stayed home with Ricky while Chris took Joe and Deg. Chris didn't get the whole action shot but, I'm sure you can figure out what happened next.



Lastly, I just needed to show you all how big the boys are getting. Joe is big enough to wash dishes by himself, and Deg and Ricky, well they're just getting big.



I hope I haven't bored you all to tears, and I hope this finds you all well.