Not new, but not as bad as it was. I took these two Senegalese fabrics and made covers for the couch's pillows. In hopes it would look better and stay together better. We have a couch cover on it and it's ALWAYS falling off and getting all bunched up. I hope it works!
- I didn't have enough fabric to do all three the same pattern...maybe it doesn't match. Too late now.
- We have fun being roommates....our morning ritual: Tea and...
yogurt with apples, blueberries, hazelnuts, cinnamon and a little maple syrup or agave nectar for me.
I got both those morning habits from my mom :)
It's been a few weeks, but here are the pictures from when Jack came to visit. We got to have him from Wednesday evening till Friday afternoon. It was lots of fun.
- Jack loved helping uncle Lewis work on the chicken coop. Now he'll have to come back and hang out with the awesome chickens we have.
- Posing for a pic...looks like he wants to fight!
- Crazy faces.
- Jacks favorite day was when Bella and Betsy got to come over and play.
-Bella was kinda sad...
- So she just hang out with me and ate TONS of tomatoes. She loved them...mo mo mo. So adorable.
- Betsy and Jack were perfect for each other. Same age, lots of energy, they pretty much just ran in circles the whole time.
- Laying in the damp grass is SO FUN!
- After awhile we decided to go to the park. We played hide and seek for a LONG time. Betsy and Jack would just cover their eyes hoping I wouldn't be able to find them...I love kids. Such great imaginations.
- Betsy was a wild girl. She was climbing and jumping off everything. Totally unfazed by anything that seemed scary. Jack caught on quick and was fallowing her lead in no time. He was a little timid at first, but wasn't going to let Betsy show him up on the play ground.
- Silly kiddos.
- Jack wanted me to take a picture of him punching...nice one.
- Wow Bets....good form. Check out her back arm. hahahaha
- After the playground Jenna had the good idea to take the kids to Papa's Pizza. Emma joined us for the evening too. Pizza and dirty balls....so awesome when you are three!
- Jack was sad to see Betsy go home that night, but Emma was spending the night and that was exciting too. Oh...AND Betsy and Jack got married. Betsy: "Jack and I are going to a wedding and we are going to get married, because it's a special day".
- Family breakfast with our nephew and niece.
Thanks for coming Jack. Come again soon!
- Jenna got a little crazy after work and decided we all needed to dress up and have a fun dinner celebration just because. It took a little convincing, but we agreed and Phil especially went all out for the occasion.
- REALLY funny on the bottom.
- Lewis did his part with a lot of chest hair showing
And Jenna and I went for red.
- It all started when my dad paid us a surprise visit with a big chunk of FRESH Chinook he had caught just the day before. So we decided to make a evening out of it.
- Jenna made me cut the onions....I'm such a nice friend.
- No tears in her eyes...pretty lips Jenny.
- We whipped up some garlic and shallot wild rice, Dad's secret sauce for the salmon on the BBQ and sauteed mushrooms and shallots over steamed broccolini.
- And it was divine. Better than any 5 star restaurant. Everything was delicious, but the salmon was out of this world. It was perfectly tender and flaky and we couldn't stop eating it. We were all full with a piece left on the platter and we couldn't keep our forks away from it until it was devoured. THANK YOU DAD. So amazing.
- After dinner it was off to gelato to finish off the evening.
- Jenna had honey and white chocolate/butterscotch. I went with the vanilla latte and pumpkin. Yum.
- Phil is still looking good :)
- Back to the house for The Office....it was a perfect evening. Thanks Jenny for always keeping things crazy :)
Lewis REALLY wanted to go to the Albany Veterans Day Parade this year. Good memories from when he was a kid. He marched in the parade with his school band a few years in a row and was excited to go check it out again this year. I was touched at all the elderly men who were driven by in the parade who had served in at least one if not two wars. What stories they must have. I was proud to be there in honor of them.
We forgot our camera so I snagged some pics off line.
I had a fun Veterans Day date with you babe :).
- I burnt my self yesterday with a hot cup of tea. As I tried to kick the morning log into the fire with some force I forgot I was holding my just poured, boiling cup of tea and it spilled all down my arm. This appeared a few minutes later. I guess that nasty blister is where the water hit first. Hopefully it will deflate soon. I don't want to pop it. Sick.
