Memorial Day Memories 1989

Camping on the Tucannon
at our favorite campsite by the little pond. (Fishing??? Trace & Kyle)
Camping there was a favorite yearly tradition
on Memorial weekend for several years.
Happy Helper (Jeff)

Karl & Cwarkie

Chad the Super Scouter

Someone that will remain unidentified.

Camping is hard when you're not quite 2. (Jake)
A happier little Jake

Cwarkie

So we're not ready for a Marathon...yet.

We just run /walked our Stake's Memorial Day 5K.
Just for the record Karl did it in 29:10. (Slower than his last recorded time)

My time...I knew it was going to be a bad day so I just went for survival; not speed.

The up sided...it's motivation to improve for the 4th of July run.

Love,
Mom T.

To kick-off our Memorial weekend

I finally cut out the Cinderella costume

....while Karl dug around in the yard.
Enjoy our first Swim of the season...it's was finally warm enough.
...with Steph and our two pseudo grand kids
(Tristin and Seven...Steph's little charges)
Friday evening Shopping...Brook's Brothers...great sale.
Then Deseret Industries....for the hunt.
(Crazy combination...but two of my favorite stores!)
Came home to find Jake and Steph hanging out at the house.
After they gave us the "Where were you...we were worried sick" lecture.
Then we decided to initiate the fire pit.

Hot Dog...no buns. Marshmallows... no chocolate or graham crakers.
But sooooo fun!

I've been seeing green

...for the past few weeks.

But they are done and delivered. Ready for a trip to England where the wedding will be.The fabric was from England...not that that made it special. It just meant that if I made a stupid mistake I couldn't run to the local fabric store and buy more.
It made me just a wee bit more careful.

Hmmmmmm?

When I'm working in the kitchen I love sharp knives. Ones that really cut. Ones that cut tomatoes thin and smooth.
And my years of working at the Bosch store have just reinforced that obsession. I'd take my knives into the store and sharpen them quite regularly.

Then knowing that I wouldn't work there forever...I starting looking for a good knife sharpener. I had my eye on the brand and model similar to what we used at the store to sharpen our customer's knives.

But being the thrifty person I am ...I struggled with justifying paying $130.00 for a knife sharpener. And being the indecisive person I am...never committed to actually buying one. But my procrastination/patience paid off and I found the knife sharper I was eyeing at a yard sale...for $10.00 ! Trying to be nonchalant I ask why they were selling it. They'd bought it at William Somona and just never used it. I couldn't buy it fast enough.

So now I always have nice sharp knives...and cut fingers.

Karl gives me a bad time about taking away my "whittlers chip".
But today while he was making his new favorite "specialty, tomatillo dressing... somebody got careless and sliced his his main guitar chording finger...and he has a gig tonight.

We super-glued it together and wrapped a band-aid around it.

Hope his playing went well tonight.
There must be a moral to this story.

The Many Faces of Kyle

...alias # 2 son

Family Man

Doctor and Dad

Big investor ... in Diet Coke

Fashion Hiker

Challenger

Aqua Man

Singer

Bag of Jelly Beans

Marathon Runner

Helpful Father

Military Man

Director

NRA Enthusiast ????

Role-model

A Thinker

A son that parents are so proud of.

Happy 32nd Birthday Kyle !

To see "Kyle through the Years" click here.

A culinary adventure...or cleaning out my fridge.

Made Grilled Chicken Fajitas from Annie's Eats tonight.So good...So easy.

The only change I made is I added zucchini to the grilled veggies because I had some in the fridge screaming to be used.
The recipe is here.
We also had this salad from her blog with it because strawberries are in season, I had spinach that we'd just harvested from our garden and I also had blueberries in the freezer. But the real reason is...
I love this poppy seed dressing!
I did make a few slight changes...I added spinach with the romaine, skipped the pineapple and added avocado.

If I'd known these culinary adventures were going to turn out so good I would have invited you over for dinner. Maybe next time:)

Our Saturday

7:00 am - A run/slog up the hill to the shooting range (Karl's new favorite place to run.) Karl runs about 4 miles...I walk/part slog uphill and jog down about 3+ miles total. (This morning I'm limping around with a hurty right heel) :(

8:00 am - We pulled out the old pea plants...they'd done their job quite nicely ...harvested a bag of spinach...put the tomatoes plants in cages (found those at a yard sales 2 weeks ago):)

9:30 - Breakfast... Omelets...oh how I love omelets with salsa.

(We have lots of little green tomatoes)(our hanging tomato plant...Thanks Rachel)

9:45 - Back out to the yard. Empty and refill the composter, dead-head roses, shear bushes and pull out a pathetic rosemary bush in the entry that has been ugly for 7 years...I will miss the scent as we walk by the vacant spot.

3:00 - Attended a Memorial Service for one of Karl co-workers that died (quite quickly) of pancreatic cancer. (It made me, once again, appreciate the gospel..the knowledge, direction and peace it gives us.)
5:00 pm - Karl's bluegrass band plays for a Daughters of the Utah Pioneer Jubilee. It was a "will- play-for-food" gig. And the food (BBQ pork) was very good.

7:45 pm - Stopped by Borders to catch Nate Waggoner's last few songs. He's good...someday he'll be famous...and we'll still love him.

8:00 pm - Quick trip into Joann's Fabrics...cutting mats were 50% off and I needed another one.
8:35 pm - dropped over due books (Leah and Rachel by Orson Scott Card and Sewing Short Cuts) by the library.
8:45 pm - Home...thought about going outside and enjoying a fire in our new-to-us firepit (Steph snagged it at a yard sale last week:) But the neighbors were having a noisy party...so we didn't.

9:00 pm - In bed and dozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing off.

It IS rocket science

"The Space shuttle Atlantis enjoyed a flawless countdown and launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 14, 2010,"It was so exciting to know that while the Atlantis Space shuttle was making it's last scheduled launch
Chad was right there
(and 6 hours before take off)
...at Cape Canaveral
... doing his part
(whatever that is....it's classified)
to make the launch happen.

(Janet's view from their house)
The launch was successful...So he must of done his job right.
Chad...your mom and dad are just right proud of you!

Confessions

...I didn't really get the Eso-Shredder for Mother's Day.
We just happened to assemble it on the Saturday before Mother's Day.

I got...a laptop!!!!!!
I'm so excited!

It will be so nice to have on my up-coming trip to Washington to hang-out with my little Charlie & Greta.
And at home we won't have to take turns on the computer any more. How nice will that be!
Thanks to my sweet, generous, handsome, patient, hardworking husband!
(He's making sure I post what he really gave me
...his reputation is at stake!)