Good Bye Kim

Kim has worked with me for the past three years. She has been so wonderful to work with. I am very sad to see her go. We had a little party at Bob’s Deli as a good bye party. Bob is a patient of ours and always brings us sandwiches. We always get excited to see him on the schedule. Kim, you will be missed!

Me and Kim

Jenna (Kim's replacement), Emily, Ella, Kristel, Kim and Kristy

These are the people that keep my office going!!!

Kristel, Kim and Kristy

First tomato

This is Adam with our first tomatoes of last year!

This our first tomato of this year! She finally picked a red one! We love fresh tomatoes. We made a caprese salad when my parents and Kelly came into town for Adam's baptism. It was to die for! I love to eat, especially fresh things from my garden. We also made a killer fresh pesto that night!

Fresh Pesto

The basil in our garden is finally ready!!! Emily and I tried to grow fresh basil when we lived in Portland and make fresh pesto, but it didn't turn out. We are happy to say that it came out great this time. We have made it about 5 times in the last couple weeks and think we have perfected our recipe. We like to roast the pine nuts and roast the garlic!

I keep adding the pictures backwards! Sorry.

Our little helper!

I have blended, processed, burnt and broken a lot of wooden spoons. I may need to ask Kathy and Todd to buy me some more wooden spoons for Christmas this year!



One of my favorite wooden spoon memories was with the Frehners, Emily's oldest sister - Anne and family! We were in the habit of making smoothies all the time. Anne always supplied us with lots of berries and fruit. I made one of them too thick and decided to help the blender with the wooden spoon. You can imagine that I went too far, as always, and shredded part of the spoon. The best part is that we still ate the smoothie (okay, mainly it was just me!) and we had to spit the little pieces of wood out. It was so funny!

Danny's dream fulfilled!

Could we be happier?

Apricots!

This year we got a lot of fresh apricots off our tree. These were the ones that survived Adam's baseball practice!?! I love our Tilton Apricot tree. The only tough part is that they are all ripe within one week. Yum Yum!

We are also in one of our long hair stages. Emily loves the boys with long hair.

Garden Destroyer

Ella has picked most of my tomatoes. She comes in with them and asks me to take a picture. I guess I am at fault too. She is so cute and I love her so much. I have to, otherwise I would have beaten her for picking the tomatoes.

This picture shows our boys in the morning. They love their pajamas and relaxing when they first wake up.

Henry is enjoying posing for the camera too!

Love you Ella!

Broken TV

Our plasma TV broke Again! ugh! We had it fixed two other times, but that is when it had a warranty. The warranty ran out and no one would give us a extended warranty (bad sign). Sure enough, it broke again. I went online and found out the problem and with a little help from my friend, 'Skinny', I got it fixed for under 10 dollars!!! (Skinny helped me find the right fuse) Yippee!

The fuses blew!

Little suckers!

Insulation

I have always wanted to add more insulation to our attic. I finally got around to it. That was my kind of job! There was no finish work . It seem to go well. Now all I hope is that it makes a difference!!