Dinner guests

My mom and dad were here for dinner yesterday, we had little pizza pockets, broccoli cauliflower soup, applesauce, and then banana bread for dessert!

Doesn't look very yummy now, but it was good after it baked! (I love my kitchen aid mixer by the way)

cooking the vegetables for soup.

I took a shortcut and used frozen roll dough for my pizza pockets.

There isn't anything quite like homemade bread when its cold and rainy out, which is was. It rained all day!

I guess all my cooking and washing dishes made Darcy sleepy, she was curled up on this for the whole afternoon. Nice day for a cozy nap!

Soup's done!!! It was the perfect day for soup. I was relieved it was raining when I got up yesterday, who wants to serve soup when its nice and sunny outside??

Somewhere in the midst of all my cooking, baking, and cleaning I took Fred out for a bathroom break and almost stepped on this guy, he was just about 3 feet from our back steps!

I called our resident animal expert (Nick's dad) and asked if he was poisonous or anything - not that I was even going to think about picking him up - and he said that he is harmless. Probably got flushed out of his hiding spot with all the rain we had yesterday.

Despite how "safe" he is we did not invite him in for soup and banana bread, but he stayed very still and let me take his picture!

Liz and Deb make applesauce...

I spent all day Saturday at Tom and Deb's house, we made applesauce from one bushel of apples. Lots of chopping, cooking, and milling, and later our freezers were half full!

Not sauced yet

Peanut inspecting our apples

One of the first batches cooking

Round one, the sauce needs to cool before putting it in freezer containers

Yummy!

More apples cooking

More cooling

And finally into freezer containers

Still here

I have not posted in over a month! Sheesh.
Guess I haven't really had anything of importance to say. Today I am coming to the conclusion that I have a sinus infection. Yay.
I simply don't get colds, they always turn into sinus infections. My Dr says that I am "sinusy". Which means I am prone to having fluid and infections in my sinuses. Yeah, tonight especially it stinks, my head feels ready to explode. Tomorrow going to call my Dr and see if she will prescribe something.

Freddie finally got his hair cut, after looking like a dust mop for the last month, now he looks naked. But he smells so nice, and we can see his eyes now!

Naomi and Luke stayed with us a few weeks ago. they were here for less than a day, but it was still nice to have some of my family around. They played Mario Kart, and talked about computers, I like it when Nick has a fellow geek to talk "techie talk" with.

and now, even though i may have more to say, I'm done because this headache is just not kidding around...

good nights.