Athena the Dog

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angry athena :]



T minus....

13 days until Thanksgiving



14 days until CHRISTMAS TIME OFFICIALLY BEGINS!!!!!!!!!!

fall in the 80920

Housewarming and Birthday Party!

cookie for the family birthdays, turns out even with all these names, I still missed a couple. Crazy!

birthday cookie + cupcakes in a house + presents

dessert and present table

delicious food- thanks to my mommy for helping me prepare it all!

Athena "helping out"

this is when Holden took over taking pictures. I guess this is when Austina was playing our piano

pickle and a beer

the birthday crew that were in attendance

we all sang loudly

blowing out their candle.

all the girls in GREEN! (plus Austina's birthday candle)

beer. gotta lay off it to slim the belly down.

nate.

ryan. there were more than just these two in attendance, but that is who holden took pictures of haha

It's HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why is that yellow leaves I see? yes, yes it is!

Oct 5 harvest

Grandma Bell

After many years of life on earth, we will dearly miss our Grandma "Bell."

See you in Heaven.

In Memory of Lorraine C. Isbell



She always opened her home, and welcomed us with food and love every time we came to visit.

She tolerated all our cousin shenanagans and let us eat treats from her neighboor.

She always had a hug to give, and we will miss her dearly, but are glad her suffering on earth is done and she is rejoicing with the Lord in heaven!

Missing Fall :[

September 28, 2010

Cherry Valley, IL 67degrees

Colorado Springs, CO 83 degrees.

Where is fall in Colorado????? Please come soon!

Zucchini Bread Day 2010

Here it is. Zucchini Bread Day 2010. Well, this is really just one of the many days- but alas. I baked up a storm.

So I share, once again, the delicious recipie, with a few changes.

Zucchini Bread
Yields 2 loafs.
Ingredients:

WET
3 beaten eggs
2 cups sugar (whisk/blend well into eggs)
1 cup cooking oil (I use canola)
2 tsp vanilla extract

DRY
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1.5 tsp baking powder
3 tsp ground cinnamon
0.5 tsp ground nutmeg
0.25 tsp ground cloves
3 cups flour

Add last:
3-4 cup grated zucchini (with rind, loosely packed)
1-1.5 cups chopped nuts (optional) (I use walnuts)
05-1 cupRaisins (optional)


Instructions:
Mix all ingredients together.

(I find that doing it in the order listed, and preparing all the dry ingredients together then slowly adding them to the wet mixture is easiest, but it doesn't matter.)
Grease 2 loaf pans (medium or large size)
Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 hour in the middle of the oven
Cool in the pan first on cooling rack (approx 10 min), loosen sides of loaf from pan with butter knife, remove from pan and finish cooling on cooling rack.


These freeze nicely!

My Garden

This is my first real attempt at a garden, and while it is very late blooming and producing, it looks like I will have at least some delicious home grown veggies of my own before it frosts!!!!!!!!!!

baby zucchini

baby pumpkin

more baby zucchini

growing, growing, growing big

beautiful sqash blossoms

baby yellow squash

baby cucumbers

first carrot harvest

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topsy turvy tomatos

delicious tomatos!