Reunion Remembrances

Hi my cubbies, as my vertigo returned last week I'm trying to take it easy and have been thinking a lot about our fun reunion and all the things we did together. Of course, it wasn't perfect as our CA family wasn't there and hopefully one of these times we'll all be able to reunite.

Glad Brooke and family and Rebecca and family had safe trips home (especially since the Montanites took a little detour through CA). Thanks to Justin and family and Holly for all the help they gave me stripping and making beds, vacuuming, cleaning up, etc to get house back to normal. Thanks to Jesse and Katie for figuring out the vacuuming problem and for Justin and boys getting those huge weeds out of strawberries that took over while I was running through Europe. I spent first of last week in strawberries and raspberries taking all the rest of the small weeds out of there and it looks sooooo much better now and I continue to get enough berries from both to eat on cereal and yogurt. Thanks to Justin and Jesse for storing the two beds in preparation for Ryan and Rachel's move-in.
Thanks for all of you when we had our photo taken. You're all learning when it's good to be serious and when it's okay to be goofy! Everytime I get online now I see this adorable photo.
Thanks to Sunshine who kept her surger purrrrrring making 6 skirts for Holly and 3 for Rebecca.

Thanks for all the stampin up cards you shared with me. Those you gals did this year are awesome and I know Taryn had fun doing them.

Thanks to Holly for bringing Taboo for all of us to play. Hyun, Taryn and Drew really did well for their first time and I know Brady, Mary and Hannah would have had a blast also. I still remember the racous laughter around the table.

I also remember the "intervention" you had for Mama Bear and remember when it was decided that we would have "Weighin Wednesday" each week to help me with my goal to gain weight and monitor each of yours. So today being Wednesday my weight is back down to 88 after it was 90 last week.

It was the concencious that you liked the first recipe of Welsh cakes a bit better than the second recipe. I'll send both those recipes plus the raspberry jam recipe via an email attachment and hope that Rebecca sends us all her recipe for those delicious Swedish pancakes also (ASAP please as I want to make some for me).

I gave Justin and Katie info to get best results with lawns. Water less often, but for longer times. Raise the lawn mower to 3" except for last mowing in fall when it's to be at 1" Also spread Epsom Salts (cheaper than expensive Scotts, etc products in keeping your lawn green).

Bottled my first dill pickles yesterday and today Holly (thankful for her) helped me put on my second denim quilt and pick quite a few apricots from tree. Unfortunately there aren't enough to do jam. I did some delicious plum jam several weeks ago.


Had a nice visit with Brady, Mary and Hannah and learned about their very busy schedule coming up.

Will look forward to hearing from each of you with this new blog which seems much better already than the other one. Thanks so much to Jesse who set it up for us and I've heard good things from friends and relatives that it is user friendly (even for "experienced adults" like moi.

Glad you all liked the Welsh gifts.