Knitting and Kneading

Started my new hobbies this week with my bread baking class and baby knitting sweater class. My favorite knitting store told me the best way to learn sweaters is to start with a baby sweater and then work your way up from there. You get experience with the shaping and types of stitched used. It has been going very fast with the baby sweater and I have pretty much learned how to do every type of stitch required. We'll see, usually when I knit something like my first pair of socks, hat, etc the first one always has gobs of errors then I make like three more and they each get better and better.


The bread baking class was great as well, high altitude baking isn't that much harder it is just adjustments in the amount of yeast, baking soda, powder, etc that you use. The teacher was different when you ask her about using anything else recipe wise but her own stuff she pretty much answers everything by telling you instead to use her recipes only as the answer. I will not be buying her cookbook. I made my first set of dough this weekend and made a loaf and also small buns out of it. I should have let it rise longer and it tasted good but did not rise very much, oh well not bad for a first try.
School is keeping Bren very bust this semester and on top of that he is searching for an internship. His dream internship is learning to make skis, he decided after looking at Tommy's new birthday Moment skis that he wants to learn to make hand made skis. Pretty cool stuff. Utah has a lot of ski industry type stuff so we will have to see.
Hoping spring comes fast and continues to bless us with fifty degree, sunny days on the hill.
Love
Alyssa

Resilant

Sometimes as I get older I get frustrated with my body whether it's re balancing for dance and adjustments when you change workouts. Then something will happen to remind me how thankful I am for this wonderful amazing body. I had one of those moments this weekend I just got a new snowboard and Friday I was taking it out for it's victory ride. Within five runs I had renamed my board the "go faster" board. Indeed it was faster, prettier a whole lot more slick with lots of tricks then my old beginner board. For a good two runs I thought I owned the hill, sure enough that's when the mountain decided to remind me who was in charge. I caught the switch side edge and proceeded to cartwheel down the hill landing full impact on my right hip. Ouch and ouch to what happens when you show off. I knew it was bad and managed to get down the hill to first aid. Being the insurance savvy gal I am they were not my preferred providers so I begged my lovely husband to take me to the in network park city clinic. One car ride, one wheel chair ride later I was getting my hip x ray ed. I couldn't help thinking how I would do my job for three months in a wheel chair. Thank goodness for the wonderful temple that is my body it was not broken, just a deep bone contusion and a pinched nerve. Crutches, painkillers and taking it easy, I could handle that. That's why I am so thankful to have a body that allowed me to limp into work today and know that with time I will be ok because my body is resilient.
Love
Alyssa