Archive for December, 2008

Need some help!

Hey All,
John, my husband is an awesome carpenter/handyman.  He will be laid off beginning January 12th.  He doesn’t do well just sitting around and is looking for some little (or big) jobs that you or your friends may need!  He can come out and give you an estimate for the total of the job and [...]

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To my niece or nephew

Dear Baby,
Today your mommy and daddy told our family that you will be joining us in August.  I can’t even begin to tell you how excited we are to meet you!  I don’t have any brothers or sisters so you will be my only niece or nephew.  We are so excited to meet you and [...]

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Dinner & Entertainment

For Christmas John’s grandma gave us a cookbook called “Great Food & Great Beer” so tonight I made a warm spinach salad with apples and bacon & Grilled Chicken with Chipotle-Lime Butter.  The salad was amazing but the Chicken was the best I have ever had!  After finishing his dinner Tristan serenaded us with beautiful [...]

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Lookin’ for a Sami Lover

Hi All,
Ok so here is the deal.  We’re going to Maui January 12-19 (I know poor us!) and Sami is too little to be boarded and won’t be up to date with her bortetella shots and God forbid she get sick again!  So we are looking for someone who can come here (or she can [...]

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My Friend Amy…

So my web designer…the one who literally keeps my business running, has hit some hard times.  I am posting a link to her blog in hopes that during this Christmas season, if any of you have any extra and can help you will.  I know we have a lot of very generous souls who read [...]

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Seriously…
That is actually John’s car buried somewhere under there!    Compare the photo of the front of the house from the one from yesterday (I think)!  In about 1 more inch we won’t be able to open our sliding glass door or snow will fall in.

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Baking Bread

28 years ago today my mom’s mommy went to heaven.  I was a year from being born.  My grandma instilled in my mom her love of cooking.  All major holidays in our family have included my mom making my grandma’s rolls.  I have never learned so today was the day that mom was coming over [...]

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Wowie Zowie!

Ok, so there is a 3.25 foot snow drift in our back yard, we have cleared our walk way at least 3 times only to have it FILL back up with snow!  This is so fun to see!  It is still coming down steadily.  Thankfully the wind has slowed down.  Tris is keeping himself busy [...]

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An Official Blizzard

Ok, so I know I’ve posted 2 times today, HOWEVER, there are 2 foot tall drifts of snow in the back yard, the one in the photo is from the entry way to our home and it is a little over 2 feet tall.  Unlike the valley, us at the West end of the Columbia [...]

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Sami & Tristan in the snow!

Today we took Tristan and Sami outside.  We really haven’t done a ton of playing in the snow because it has been bone chilling cold and Tris only lasts like a millisecond outside in it!  So today after we enjoyed lunch with our friends Sandi & Eric we came home and played in the snow.  [...]

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