happy belated!

2010

2011

thanksgiving

 thanks, martha.

black thursday (?) @wal-mart.

first cornhole game.

meet mina.

seattle

a visit to seattle for a good friends wedding.

salumi.

filson.

gettin nails did.

hello and goodbye

it's been a while.  i'm back for a minute to update on the month of november and gone again for most of december.  january will be a better blogging month and start of a better blogging year.  i hope.

crafty

i peddled my wares at my first craft show this weekend.  not so successful, but fun nonetheless.

mom typed up some business cards for me.

i embellished with some washi tape and a run through the sewing machine.

opie helped, of course.

it's my friday

in the works

(task master)

working on some things- under opal's supervision, of course.

opie says: happy halloween!

this time last year and the year before.

gratuitous shrug post

can't quite get enough of this guy.

weekend with hank

happy birthday, case!

today is opie's dads birthday.

he'd much rather eat his cardboard hat than wear it.

happy birthday, case/dad!

sunday dinner

we had our first real dinner in the new house tonight- just perfect.  made dinner from several recipes that i've found amongst my foodie blogs.

1. grilled corn salsa

so good.  the only thing we were missing was cilantro- the cilantro at the store today did not look right, so i left it out.  the salsa totally doesn't need it, but cilantro is my fave so i can imagine this would be even better with.

2. bbq onion rings

pretty good- definitely can perfect this.  the dipping sauce for these guy is the jam.

and then for the week i also made these guys.

case set up a sweet dinner spread with candles and he wrapped the silverware up all fancy-ish.

opal took a spot front and center on top of the picnic table.

he wasn't successful in getting any bits, bless his heart.  he's not very good at begging, but it works for him because he can sit on the dinner table next to your plate and you don't have to worry about him snatching up any food.