Go Vandals Go you gotta fight Vandals fight! and Joe will need to sing this song strong tonight because my mighty Broncos are going to give his Vandals a run for the money! Can't believe our marriage has lasted this long through the battle of our teams. Today is the Day! Go Broncos!

Election 2008

When I signed off blogging on 9/5/08 never did I realize how busy I would be the last sixty days and especially the last 9 days as the campaign called upon our grass root volunteers to give it all we had. The week-end of 10/24/08 I prepared four lasting meals for Fred and Marye, drove to Nampa to give "Dad" his monthly shot and kissed Joe good-bye since he wouldn't be seeing much of me. I put in over 100 hours volunteering in addition to my regular job and loved every moment of it. I took yesterday and today off from work, to Poll Watch. It was fascinating watching 50 year old men who have never voted exercise their right to vote, it was also refreshing watching the youth come out in droves and vote for their candidate whomever it might be. Today I am off catching up on house work, laundry, cooking, and resting in general. I started my morning with prayers for our newly elected, that God would give them strength in the guidance of our country in the years to come.

Enough of the campaign. We celebrated Fred's birthday in September and Jimmie's in October. Uncle Bobby had a successful surgery and is recovering at home. Mom, Stomie and Megan drove to Portland to see him. Hopefully he will be able to make his annual trip to Idaho in the Spring.

Early September we lost our water at the cabin, we are not sure if it is the pump but since we were so close to closing and had other items pulling at our time, we closed the cabin early and will deal with it in the Spring. I did miss the fall colors of the Aspens in McCall but Boise has had a Bevy of colors!

James and Elise took a road trip to Portland to help a friend move and were able to spend a few days there for R&R..

In October Joe travelled to Boston to watch Mac speak at the grand opening of the Women's Resource Center that she has worked on since her Freshman year. Yea! Graduation 5/17/09.

Two other large events in the past two months was the Cook Off in the Hood, originally scheduled to be held in McCall (three couples, two cooking and one judging) but was held here in "The Hood" I have attached a copy of my dinner menu, plus we also had to do one breakfast. I prepared homemade hollandaise sauce with Eggs Benedict accompanied with Fresh Fruit. We had a ton of fun that week-end! I won 5 out of six of the contests. We had prizes and all. Joe made his famous Clam Chowder for the BSU game......sure I gained five pounds that week-end.

Saturday September 21, 2008

Welcome to our Home

We invite you to enjoy with us the menu listed below!
Bon Appetite!

Shrimp Cakes with Chili Lime Cream Sauce

Corn, Radish and Spinach Salad with Dijon Mustard Vinaigrette

Assorted Rustic Breads

Breast of Chicken stuffed with Sage, Fontina Cheese, and Bacon in a Roasted Garlic Cream Sauce

Sauté of Asparagus

Crème Brule with Fresh Raspberries

Serving Natural Light, Crane Lake Cabernet and Chardonnay

Background music provided by College Football!

My Alma Mater BSU is crushing them in Football, and our beloved Red Sox just missed the Series!

Joe's friend from college(and now mine) Bjorn and Ellen came to visit from Oslo Norway. We had so much fun visiting with them, preparing them American Food, sight seeing and Joe and Ellen of course got in some shopping. They have invited us to Norway and I can hardly wait.....won't be soon we have one more semester of payment for school and graduation. Priorities!

Halloween came and went, but didn't even miss it since I wasn't home! Megan and Suzie came to visit though and Joe took some pictures of the little princesses! Bailee was a Red Lobster. Thanks for all the other updates of the other nieces and nephews in their costumes. I have been into pie baking since the neighborhood keeps providing me with apples, have put up some marinara sauce from the tomatoes and basil, and Megan, Susan and I picked all the concord grapes and prepared them into juice and Nana made jam for them to give to their teachers this Christmas.

I cannot believe what an Indian Summer we are having...tomorrow back to work on my Bicycle, Life is Good! Hope all is well with you all.

Deb

Five More Days!

It is a good thing we get an extra hour of sleep this week-end, I so need it! Will catch the site up soon! Off to bake for the bake sale!

I said I was not going to Blog until after the Election and I have lots to tell you, but this request requires family support, love and prayers. Alison has lost her husband Keith following surgery and we all need to support her and the children with prayers and positive thoughts during this difficult time. Cathy will be here tonight to be with her and the girls. Alison we love you and you are in our thoughts constantly. Love Aunt Deb

I just got my assignments for the next 60 days from the Idaho Democratic Party so will not be blogging until the election is over so I can apply my extra time to my candidates of choice! I will update my Blog following the election! Until November and the Holidays! I hope we have an Indian Summer and that you all continue to have a Wonderful Fall.~Deb

As promised the end of the season pictures from the yard. I will be sad to see them go and then the rain and snow to fly!. Brrrrrrrrrrrr!

Fall Beautiful Fall

Just an update, took Joe's 91 year old mom to the cabin this week-end. Even though it tired her she thoroughly enjoyed herself. We just waited on her hand and foot, including giving her a pedicure and manicure. She was her gracious self and accepted all of our ministries with a few tears of thankfulness. She really enjoyed the fresh mountain air as you can see by this photo, we couldn't talk her into coming back into the house until she was darn good and ready. She slept 10-12 hours each night. We had to come home early due to our water pump went out, needs replacement, but it has given me a day to finish my painting of the bathroom, paper work, see my boy off to Portland (helping a friend move) and to place my thoughts and prayers today with Mackie as she begins her Senior Year at BU. I also get the privilege of mowing the lawn, never knew how much we would miss Denny(our lawn man) since his hospitalization. Our prayers are with him also. He will not be returning and we are in hot pursuit for someone else to do this job next year. We will finish out this season though, because the exercise is good for us. I have been riding Mom's old Huffy Cruiser to work everyday and loving it. I now have a basket, horn, and flashers for evening riding. I have even changed my first tire with some telephone coaxing from James. I haven't had to purchase gas in over a month. Joe is busy with some new adoptions and keeps busy in general with all types of other projects. Here is to fall and the cooler weather. Will get some new pictures of Megan and Suzie's pumpkins posted soon.