Christmas Time

Christmas Eve we spent the evening with Doug and Jessica. We had our traditional Chinese Food for dinner. We started this tradition when we still lived in Nashua, NH. Christmas Eve day is alway a busy day getting everything ready for the big day that ordering take out seemed like a great idea. We have carried this tradition out every year except for a couple when the roads were impossible to travel on. When we moved to Idaho we invited my sister and her family to join us. It was always fun as our kids were the same ages and gender. I would host one year and she would host the next year. Even this year as we have moved and are unable to get together I called her on Christmas Eve and they were enjoying their Chinese Dinner. What fun memories

Christmas morning we went back to Jessica and Doug's. We had Egg McMuffins and lots of other good food. Then we got to open our presents. Doug got a new game that we played. It was a fun day.


We then headed up to Alice and Jeff's to have supper and share more presents. The boys all got BYU shirts. They love their Uncle Carl.

Catch Up Time

Wow! here it is March 12, 2011 and I have not updated my blog for over three months. Well, here goes. For Thanksgiving we went to Sue's in Rexburg. Most of the family was there which means a lot of people, over 40 but I didn't count. It was really nice to visit with everyone and eat yummy food. A few days later we got to spend time with Tanner for his birthday. He is really growing up. He is already 3 and is quite the talker. He has the cutest little mischievous twinkle in his eyes. He is into tractors. I was able to find some material to make him a tractor cuddly blanket.

Boston, here we come!

Joe had a business trip to Boston the middle of November and I got to go with him. We stayed in Cambridge just down the road from MIT. Joe spent three days at the ITT booth of the Energy Harvesting trade show with long days. I got to wander around Cambridge and Boston which I love. New England is one of my favorite places especially in the fall. As you can see the trees still had a lot of color on them and the temperature was wonderful and warm.

I love the contrast of the old and new in Boston. These pictures were taken from Cambridge looking over the Charles River at Boston.

I was able to spend one day at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. As I was waiting for the shuttle at the hotel to take me to the "T" to get on the train to go to the museum a lady was waiting and said she wanted to go to the museum but was afraid to ride the T. I invited her to go with me, so we ending up spending the day together at the museum which turned out to be a very enjoyable day.
Joe at the trade show. He is the one in the blue shirt. They, ITT, won the Best of Show Award.

After the show we drove up to Maine to spend four days for a break and rest. We got to visit our friends which we met when we were at BYU 37 years ago. It is great to have good friends. We also got to spend time and attend church with Joe's brother Ken and his family. They have a wonderful small Branch they attend. Great people. We stayed in a hotel right on the beach in Old Orchard Beach. The above picture is from the beach in front of our hotel. It was so beautiful.

How Does My Garden Grow Chapter 9

November was a busy month and here it is December. We got the furnace in and I am really enjoying the heat. The beginning of November started off cold but as the month went by it was a beautiful month. I finally picked the last of my tomatoes the middle of the month. Many were green but have ripen and we are still eating tomatoes from our garden. Amazing. We had peppers still growing before we left on the 14th of November to go to Boston for a business trip.
Of course it froze and a big winter storm hit just before we got home. We had an amazing garden for our first year and just plopping the plants where ever I could find spots.

See Ya Later Radiator!

Here is a picture of the old radiators that have been removed and in a pile outside waiting to be taken to the salvage shop for some $$. The lovely pink radiator is still waiting to come out but the guy that has been helping us didn't have time to finish up. It is nice to have another thing checked off the To Do List.
I love my new furnace. The ducts and returns are huge compared to the furnace. But it sure has been nice to have heat. Love that feature. I love before and after pictures. The before picture is showing all the 100 bottles of beer along the wall and the other picture shows the nice new heat ducts and some food storage. The bottles are long gone.

It's begining to look like Christmas:)

What a weird year for snow this year. It snowed here back on May 24 and then October 27th. Hope this is not a sign of a long hard winter.

That will teach you!

We have a very narrow driveway which is hard to get out of on a good day, plus the heavy traffic on our street makes it almost impossible to get out of. We have people park there cars right on the edge of the driveway often and sometimes a foot into the driveway. Well this time was the limit. They were parked clear in the middle of the driveway and no way to get out. Joe had to be to work so he ended up driving on the lawn to the next driveway. After a while and no one showed to drive it away I took the matter into my own hands. I called the police. They were out in about 15 minutes. Gave the car a ticket, called the tow truck. The officer said the the car was a rental and it could have been abandoned. All in a days work in the neighborhood.