Being Silly

Ok, here are a few silly pictures. One tomatoe looked like it was sticking out its tongue. Rick thought that another reminded him of hemorroids!

Tomatoes!

Yeah Baby! We've got some beautiful tomatoes. They are really meaty. We had our first one weighing in over 1 pound!

Group Picture

One more - group picture.

Sleepless in Seattle

We had an AWESOME time in Seattle. What a beautiful area. On the way up to Seattle, we were able to visit for a few minutes with Stomie and Rose and then with Michelle, Jason and their adorable children. There were 33 people on the trip so we broke away from the group going up and then caught up with them after we met the Jensens at their County fair. We caravaned the rest of the way and all the way home. We left Seattle Monday morning at 0530 and arrived home at 10:00 pm last night. Coordinating bladders and lack of bathroom availability added several hours to the trip. I think it's suppose to take 12.5 hours vs. 16. We ran from sun up to way too late each night. Everyone but us slept on the church floor in sleeping bags. We got to sleep at the Pastor's house because we are old ones in the group, as you'll see in the photos. So we had a futon couch in the living area. We were there to support a church planted there a few years ago. They had like 30 people in the church, so we doubled in size for the few days we were there. We painted the front of one house, did work at a second house and invited their church neighbors to a BBQ in the park. I think it changed everyone's life to some degree for the better. We had a free morning/afternoon on Sunday, so we went to the Warf, to the original Starbucks coffee shop (several of those on our trip work at Starbucks), went to Pike's Place fish market and watched them throw fish and they had a great Farmer's Market along the warf area and had a fabulous crab lunch. We even saw a wedding going on at the warf (no one we knew). We rode the monorail from the space needle to the warf. It was fun.

Ok, I'm behind on my blog

Sorry for being a little behind... here's the important stuff...
Aadam and Michele's daughter Emilee turned 7 on Monday!
Shannon's coming to visit on Friday through the weekend!
Shirley's toe is healing well after surgery a few weeks ago.
BBQ tonight at the park with 60 of our friends - Rick's cooking Ya!
BBQ tomorrow night at our house for 6 - Rick's cooking again!
Have I told you lately what an Excellent BBQ-er he is!
Preparing for a trip with 35 from our church to go to Seattle next week.
Very exciting!
I would estimate our tomato plants to be about 7' tall. We took the first fruits from the tomato plant and the jalapeno plant and made some salsa to take to the BBQ tonight. We have about 3-4 eggplant ready to pick and eat by the end of the week!

Happy Anniversary Jason and Michelle

Jason and Michelle just celebrated their 11th year anniversary! whooohoooo