Holiday Weekend and Friends Sept07

It was a very nice weekend. We are all sore from the fun. We started on Friday with a bike ride in one of our favorite cities, the Nations Capital. You have to try the bike trails along the Potomac, from Reagan National Airport to George Washington's home at Mt Vernon.

Sat and Sunday were boating days with the Kywildcats and the Cal Natives. My oldest daughter got up on skis for the first time. She was all smiles. I like the photo of her and I on the inner-tube. It looks like I'm telling her about an old aviator story, "And there I was..." :) For those of you who know my background, that really doesn't work, unless we are talking about subs. And there we were...


What better time is there than spending it on the water, or feasting with friends? We have been blessed with wonderful friends. We celebrated Rebecca's birthday early this year, since we are going on vacation next weekend for 2 weeks. We will be posting on vacation to keep a nice log of the memorable time with family and more great friends.


Hope you enjoy the photos.

Cast Off the Old

Ashley is free, free at last! Our youngest is now returning to the normal chaos of her youth. Pray please. :) We let her ride her bike for the first time in 7 weeks last night. She is slowly relearning full range of motion. For background, Ashley broke her arm on a trampoline at Church camp. Oh by the way... G and I were 12 hours away when we got, "the call" That was a pretty emotional time, "Peace like a river" was rapidly fading away. Rapids... get it?

When she got her cast off she was a bit nervous about re-injuring it. But now that she has more range of motion in her elbow and feeling is returning to her pinky, things are looking up.

Enjoy the pics.

J and G.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Ok, let's see if I can post something here. (This is Joe's job, but since he's in class all week I think I'll try my hand at Posting a new Blog)

As most of you saw on KY Transplants blog I celebrated my birthday on Sunday. I told my family that I wanted to do something different this year. I wanted to have a nice dinner at home that I was going to make. After pouring over my cookbooks I decided to make a big Chinese dinner. After I announced my theme my OD and YD got going on the decorations for the day. DH took them to town on Sat. to get all the supplies. Since Chinese New Year's is not in Aug. they had to be very creative in their shopping. Since they couldn't find any Chinese lanterns, they ended up buying little colorful take-out boxes from Michaels and strung them up around the house. Very Creative! They kicked me out of the house while they were putting up all the decorations, they all did a Fabulous job. Thanks Family!

I started my feast on Saturday and continued on into Sunday. I was so excited I couldn't wait. I made BBQ Pork, Teriyaki Chicken, Chicken and Snow Peas, Almond Chicken, Fried Rice, Steamed Rice and of course Lumpia. (and I can't forget YumYum sauce from Asahi) Melody came over in the afternoon to help with the chopping and stir-frying and we were glad to sit down and enjoy it after all our hard work.

I really enjoyed my day with my family and friends.