Friday, November 28, 2008

Thanksgiving and Kristin's Birthday 2008

Gorgeous day for Thanksgiving this year - sunny and about 70 degrees! I tried a new recipe for cornbread and apple stuffing - really good. And decided to order a pre-cooked turkey from Publix to save oven time. It tasted great .... but looked a little mangled. Maris figured it lost the turkey fight. Unfortunately, Kyle was struggling with a bug and felt awful so couldn't enjoy the feast, but we were glad he was there.

Kristin's birthday usually gets smushed into Thanksgiving....just like this year. So we ate turkey and then blew out candles. She picked chocolate pie for her "cake"....French Silk....yummm! It was so nice we opened gifts and ate dessert on the new porch.
Our gift to her was the stoller/car seat for the baby .... but she bought it the same day, so ours needs to go back to the store. Pretty funny when she announced at dinner "Guess what I got yesterday? The stroller!" We are were really quiet thinking "darn....!"

And Mom, Maris and I finished off the day with our other tradition....a movie. We saw "Australia"....pretty good! Some of the scenery (filmed in northern Australia) looked exactly like Mesa Verde near David's farm and other south Utah/Colorado rock formations. Really beautiful.
(Sorry no photos of Maris...he was taking the still pics and I was trying to record things on the video camera. But he was there!!)






Sunday, November 16, 2008

Kristin's Baby Shower







On Saturday, Nov 15th, mom and I attended Kristin's baby shower for Karington...due in just over a month (Dec 29th). I brought the OJ and pomegranate mimosas - sort of a brunch theme. Karington will be one cute baby with all the beautiful clothes! Mom got her 2 lovely dresses and I made her a blanket to match the colors in the baby's room.

Kristin's hoping for Dec 20th, but we'll just have to wait and see!!

Sunday, November 9, 2008


We can't wait to have friends over to enjoy the new space with us.

Finished the Porch Project


Our huge pine tree had to be removed this year so it wouldn't fall on the house during the next hurricane. So that evolved into an upgrade to our house. We added onto the back porch and completely landscaped the back yard. It's like a whole new room on the house - we love it!