This blog gives me a space to record my adventures, my successes and failures, my thoughts, and all things pertaining to my family and my extended family.
First off, my time of quietly hiding in the background is over, I'm sad to say. It was a wonderful month. RIP The young single soldiers figured out that I can make food that is a little better than something out of a box or the stuff that shows up all too frequently in their chow hall line . . . At our Ward BBQ on Tuesday evening, they were very skilled (Morgan, mostly) in asking all the right questions in rapid succession so that I found myself inviting them over for dinner on Friday night. And then it turned into, "Can we invite the elders?" "Can the sister missionaries come, too?" "And how about Elder and Sister Sim?" (the senior missionary couple serving here now) So . . . Friday night, we ended up hosting 9 guests + Scott and me = 11!! We did purposely buy a dining table from IKEA that could extend and seat lots of guests, so I'm glad the seating arrangement all worked out. We extended the table a little further by setting up my sewing table d...
I stayed behind for an extra week instead of flying back to Italy with Scott so that I could attend my Grandma Lillian's Celebration of Life up in Portland first. I'm so glad I did! Seeing the world from several thousand feet up never gets old. The Columbia River coming into Portland . . . I drove myself over to Amber's house in my 2025 Toyota Rav 4 rental car. It was past 9:00 p.m. so it was dark and the city looked so magical as I drove across bridges and past skyscrapers. Even though it was late when I arrived, at least it was a Friday night so the girls didn't get in trouble when they snuck out of bed to give me a giant hug. Abby announced that she would be providing all of my meals during the weekend, and then she showed me a handwritten menu that she made just for me!! You can click on the photo below to see all the adorable options she created. Before I tucked myself into bed, I let Abby know that I would absolutely love to have some avocado toast the followin...
Picking up where I left off last week . . . Friday, March 28th: While visiting our daughter, Amber and her family up in Portland, Oregon, we had a fun outing while Weston had the day off work. We drove in 2 cars over to Tillamook and then on to the coast. Abby and Gwen rode in our car (of course!), while Amber and Weston had a very quiet and relaxing time in their car. We had fun pretending all sorts of things in our car, like: What color of house do you want when you grow up? Then it turned into what animals we would like on our individual farms and why. It was a lot of fun! This is the Oregon Coast at Tunnel Beach near Tillamook . . . Amber and Weston had never been to the Tillamook Cheese Factory (also known as Tillamook Creamery), but I had gone with Grandma Lillian several years ago. It was MUCH quieter when we went all those years ago . . . This time it ended up being super busy on the last day of spring break for the entire state of Oregon, it was also a rainy day, too, wh...
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