Saturday stuff

This Saturday we had our friends the Schoenings over for dinner. We started cooking early, I made a New York cheesecake and I have to say it was one of the best cheesecakes I've made so far. Then Jim and Morgan made his famous "cheeseburger soup" and the Scoenings brought a great salad and delicious rolls. Yum!! Everyone loved the soup, it's delicious every single time we make it. After dinner we hung out a little bit and caught up on the news of our families. Some good, some not so good , but it was good to talk and hear from each other. We played board games and laughed our butts off, everyone had a blast. Look at he pictures of the guys- you can see just how much fun were having!!We made a commitment to each other to get together every other weekend so we can keep closer than we have been lately. We really do miss each other when we don't see enough of our families. Love these guys.

Cameron's 15th bday

Wow, it seems really weird to say Cameron is 15 already. That means he's less than a year away from driving which I cant even imagine. We had a small dinner and cake celebration at the house on Saturday with just us and my sister. Jim bought trick candles for the cake that weren't really too tricky, he blew a few times and got a little help from Rachel to finish up the job. We all got a good laugh out of the shirt that I bought without realizing it says "boobies" , everyone else saw it right away. Pretty funny. We had a super yummy red velvet cake from Costco but we were all too full from dinner to have any until way later. Mike had his wisdom teeth out on Saturday so he could hardly eat much anyway. He recovered pretty quickly though, much quicker than the girls. We got Cameron another new Ipod since his old one is broke, we did warn him this is the last one he'll get from us though, he doesn't have the best track record for taking care of them.

I went out car shopping with my sister on Saturday too- she bought herself a Mini Cooper. It's the first newer car she has ever bought, she gets to bring it home on Monday. Lucky!!

THS Soccer 2011

Mike started playing soccer this year for Tenino HS and he loves it. He really hasn't played a sport for a few years, unless you count bowling, LOL. So I was glad that he decided to join the soccer team. Most of his friends play also so that helped encourage him to give it a try. He's on the JV team and plays forward. These pictures are from his first game , which they lost unfortunately, but two games later they won and Mike made one of the two goals. Nice!

Summer with the boys

I scrapped this page last night. It's from last summer and shows lots of the things we enjoy doing during the summer. As soon as they are ripe, Cameron picks blackberries from the bushes in the driveway, then he and Jim make a pie. We usually end up with 2 or 3 pies and maybe one cobbler throughout the summer. It's kind of a tradition since we have lived in this house. Then of course there's fishing and fireworks and usually some yard work and goofing around. I love summer in Washington, so mild and nice. I just hope this years summer comes soon, I'm tired of the cold.

John's 18th birthday

Last Sunday we celebrated my nephew John's 18th birthday at his mom's house in Yelm. John is such a good boy, he has grown into an awesome young man. We spent lots of time talking about his college plans, he's a senior this year. He may go to PLU and he may go to OSU in Oregon, he's not sure yet but he wants to do something in business. Mom and Dad made it to the party and Dad even stayed for more than an hour. He really prefers to stay at home fro the most part now days due to the Alzheimer's but everyone likes to see him out and about when he can do it. The party was fun, John got a great new Cannon camera and was super excited.He also scored a ton of cash!! Lucky boy. Happy birthday John- we love you.

Hey there friends.....

Here I am!! I had a chance to scrap some pages over the last few weeks, yep weeks, and thought I'd post them here on the blog. Poor blog, it's been horribly neglected!

I have been a bit busy at work and I also seemed to have lost my scrap mojo, not sure it's back but this is a start. The first layout is for Scraptiffany's blog challenge from last week, her link is on the left side task bar, check out all of the great layouts if you get a chance. The others are some of the product I got at CHA and some were projects we did at the make and takes. There was some great new lines there and they gave away lots of product to promote the new stuff. Especially Teresa Collins, I used her new sports line for the football layout below.

Well, I hope  to post more often. I miss it and like to keep friends and family current with what's going on in our lives. Wish me luck! Have a great week everyone!

California Dreamin'

It's hard to believe that 2 weeks ago this is where I was, on a beach in beautiful California. The last day of our trip to CHA we headed down to the beach for a few hours of glorious Cali sunshine. The weather was beautiful , the skies were blue, the people were friendly and I began to understand why people might want to live there....it was glorious. We took lots of pictures to be used as a reminder at a later, and much colder, time of how it was that one day. Today is that day- enjoy a bit of California dreaming on me.