Thanksgiving

A wonderful Thanksgiving was had by all @ Steve & Paula Gough's.  Here's just a tiny glimpse of our grateful day:

Wesley's 2nd Birthday

Happy Birthday Wesley, 11/15/2010. Below is a montage of your 2nd year and below that is your 1st year's post again. You bring so much joy to those around you. You had your very 1st haircut yesterday and you are now officially a toddler, no longer a baby. We love you so....

Here's Wesley's 1st year again.

November 2010 Ten on Ten

Chantrelle Mushrooms

October has been a fantastic month for mushroom hunting. We've found lots of varieties of mushrooms, but we only keep and eat the chantrelles. Hood Canal and just off Hiway 18 have an abundant amount of chantrelles this year. This year our son-in-law, daughter, and grandson, my brother, and a friend, even joined in the hunt. What fun!

10 on 10: 10.10.10

Today we prepared to celebrate the 30th birthday of our daughter Jenny by preparing our kids favorite meal (Chris (34) & Jenny's) - home cooked whole chickens and noodles. We had fresh chantrelles that we'd picked yesterday and homemade cupcakes for dessert. Here's a birthday post from 2008.

Happy 6th birthday to our great nephew Christian too.

10 on 10 September

morning walk with Louie

mid-morning wild blackberry snack

a good day for reading...

pantry donation sorting

harvesting cucumbers from our garden

a little one on one "Skype" time with Christine in France

chocolates from Switzerland

dinner @ Billy Baroo's @ Foster's Golf Course in Tukwila - me & owner Yelina

Jean Claude, our friend visiting from England

lamb dinner - Yummy

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Play time chez Mémé et Pépé - our sweet little Elmo character and what a character he is!

Sampling Uncle Leonard's Bounty

Wesley and I paid an impromptu visit to Uncle Leonard's yesterday, so that Wes' mom (my Jenny) could clean their house. Wes really enjoyed picking his very own raspberries and plopping them into his mouth (even the green ones), and the handoffs of raspberries from his Great Great Uncle Leonard were much appreciated.

He absolutely loved Uncle's homemade dill pickles and couldn't seem to get enough of them, even though they made his facial expressions quite amusing. He also ate an entire plum right from the tree. Uncle treated me to a delicious turkey sandwich with avocado and tomatoes. We even had a bowl of ice cream.

Leonard picked a bouquet of dahlias from his prize garden so that Wes could bring them home to his Mom. As you can see, at first Wes thought that he was supposed to eat the flower since he'd been eating everything else right from the garden.

We had a lovely visit. Thank you Uncle Leonard. We love you!