College Graduation

The time has come our youngest son, Jordan to graduate from the University of Alaska in Anchorage Ak. We are very proud of him and this accomplishment. Jim and I are flying out of Seattle this afternoon to celebrate with him and family and friends tomorrow night. The ceremony will be Sunday afternoon and it will be so exciting!!! Life is so good and with God it is very good!
Congratulations Jordan!
Will post photos after we get back home.

Mexican Food Night

This is the end result of a LOT of work! I got this craving for Mexican food late in the afternoon and proceeded to go ahead with the idea. It didn't take me long to figure out that I would need help. I asked Jim to help and he agreed to it. I think he knew that dinner would be at midnight if he didn't pitch in. :) Any ways his help was greatly appreciated even if he goofed off pretending that we could be doing a reality cooking show! :) So, we ended up with Spanish rice, chili rellenos and beef fajitas! I made homemade tortillas and guacamole. The cilantro was a super addition to the flavors. We were both delighted with the outcome of this meal.

Guacamole, not my usual recipe but it turned out pretty tasty.

The whipped egg yolks with flour all ready to mix in with the egg whites for the chili rellenos. I used pablano chilis and I will definitely use them again--they had fabulous flavor.

The egg whites turned out so fluffy!

Garage Sale

We had a garage sale on Saturday and many people went away very happy!!! We are selling most all of my husband's late mother's treasures. It is a part of life and needed to get done. It is so much work getting everything unpacked and priced. The part that I enjoy about having a garage sale is being able to chat with the people who come to the sale. Since we are new to the community, it is a way to get to know some of the people here. We have a lot more to sell and hopefully I can set up again and the weather cooperates so we can have a sale again this weekend. Wish us luck!! :)

Safe trip!!

I want to take this time to thank God for the safe and fabulous trip we took to Phoenix and back. We flew down on Monday and started driving up on Thursday. We got home Saturday evening at 11:30, very tired.
The weather in Phoenix was fabulous--everyone there seemed to be dreading the next few months of hot temperatures! Well, it had rained there quite a bit lately and it showed! The grass was green, the cactus was in bloom and so was anything else that was growing-it just blessed my soul to see the beauty. Seeing the desert in bloom all the way up the sides of the "mountains" was just lovely!
The purpose of this trip was to go and take care of my husband's mother's estate. We packed up the moving truck in a couple of hours on Wednesday and did some shopping. We stayed with our dear "roommates". (Our cousin's, the Becks) They gave us some juice oranges to bring home with us which make the SWEETEST fresh squeezed orange juice.
Off we went on Thursday morning. We drove over to California--the beauty of the scenery and the weather were just plain delightful. The sight that blessed my soul the most was seeing the palm trees swaying in the breeze---just raising their arms in praise to God!! We drove thru the farmland (breadbasket of America), that is a sight to behold. You can also see the results of corrupt politics out in the farmland. Speaking of politics: we saw miles and miles of wind mills and I would venture to say that only about 1/4th of the wind mills were working. It is an amazing ugly sight to say the least. I don't think they can hire enough workers to fix them all. No wonder the state of California is broke, just wait and see what they are going to do to fuel all the cars that are battery operated. (which need electricity, btw, not to mention the rare earth metals needed for those vehicles, that need to be stripped from the earth)
Enough of that, the trip just had to have something to bring me back to earth!
I just can't say enough of the beauty of the trip: northern Ca was beautiful, Oregon was fabulous, going up in the passes was amazing, the foliage was all budding. We got into Washington in the dark so I wasn't able to enjoy the beauty except to see the water when we went over the bridges. Well, we got home safe and sound and soooo thankful to have my own bed to sleep in. We are BLESSED-thank you God for blessing my little soul.

Easter!!!!---2010

We had a fun day today. Going to church to be with our church family then coming home to a dinner with our dear family and some of their friends. As you can tell, Mackenzie just loves me so much and I get so thrilled about that. Teslin gets sooo excited when she sees me but I think she gets more excited about seeing her grandpa--she just squeals with delight when she sees him!
This has been a wonderful day--I love Easter and the hope that it brings because of Christ's resurrection!

HAPPY EASTER!!

Making kulich for Easter. Mackenzie was the main taster for the baking session--I guess she always is. :)

Teslin was so happy to be part of the preparations.

I hope there are enough sprinkles on this one!