“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”: 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

25 years of cookie baking

On Friday I went to my friend Debbie's house to bake cookies. This is something we started doing together about 25 years ago when we both lived in Tucson. We lost touch for awhile but crossed paths again when Debbie realized both of our significant others worked for Southwest Airlines and were based in Phoenix. This is Debbie in her kitchen deciding which kind of cookie we will make next.

These are the peanut butter kisses we made. They were one of the best looking batches of this type of cookie we have ever produces. Crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside.

Clockwise from the top are sage shortbreads, some sort of chocolatey bar cookie that I forgt the name of, peanut butter kisses, citrus shortbreads, neopolitans, chocolate chip cherry cookies, cherry bars, chocolate black pepper shortbreads (very yummy), chocolate crinkles and in the middle turtle bars.

The Littlest Violinist

On Thursday we went to Tucson to see Ben in his first violin concert. Unfortunately we were about 3 minutes late, his group was first and we missed his whole performance. Ben and his friend Noah posed for this picture for us after the concert. We were able to go to Ben's house and watch his performance on video. You did a great job Benjamin.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Attic

Matt and Andrew climb up to the elusive and often forbidden junk pile we refer to as our attic.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Thankful

I found this when I was going through some bins of Christmas stuff in the attic. This is what Jodie was thankful for in 1989

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Meet the Grandparents

While going through some old photos I found this picture of my paternal grandparents and my dad, he was their only child. My grandmother died before my parents were married so this had to have been take before 1946. It is on the front porch of their house in Lincoln Nebraska. I think I may have gotten my lovely figure from my grandfather and my sense of style from my grandmother.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Matts Pirate Birthday Party

Matt's third birthday party was Sunday at the park. There were treasure hunts, a big red ball to roll in, pizza and cupcakes and face painting by Amy. Everyone had a great time.