2009

January 1, 2009.  HAPPY NEW YEAR!

WOW, isn’t it amazing how the years fly by as you get older?  I’m not old by any means, LOL, but they sure don’t drag like they did when I was just a wee little tike! 

I look in anticipation at the events scheduled in the new year,  (it looks kinda empty, but I know each week will fill up fast)

Family Birthday’s  (our oldest turning 6, and the youngest will turn 1.  Dh and I will both turn 33)

New Family pictures (here’s to dreaming!)

Weekend getaway to the City with friends

All the regular scheduled appt.’s (dentist, doctor, chiro, etc)

Kindergarten for the second daughter (wow, that didn’t take long…i’m kind of scared actually)

A day retreat with the Ladies of the Church

The Kids Clubs Program resuming it’s weekly event

Camping with the kids…and all of us enjoying it!

Dh’s work continuing, or the Lord providing a new alternative

More time with my parents and DH’s parents

Renewed relationships with sibblings. (and more effort and interest on everyone’s part)

And most of all, making memories in the everyday things.  Memories that will last a lifetime. 

I remember with fond memories some events from the last 365 days:

The first day of kindergarten.

Putting our first child on the school bus for the first time (as much as it scared me, I pray for her to grow and learn)

Birthday’s (dh and my 32!)

The birth of our third daughter

Camping with a new baby

The purchase of a van (still can’t really believe how I convinced dh…well, i shouldn’t really take the credit, it goes to his good friend Pete)    Thanks Pete

A quick recovery after our third child.

My health, and my families health.

Our annual trip to the Hills for a ‘hike’ and picnic with friends.

The valuable time my children have had with grandparents and aunts/uncles

Taking a road trip to my sisters and BIL’s for Easter with my family

Taking a weekend getaway to Grand Forks as a family.

And so much more!   Take some time to browse this year in review collage!  Ask me if you have any questions!

not in cronological order, just random shots of the year

Carroteer

Yeah…not sure what that means, I was looking for an interesting title for a boring post!    How did I do?  LOL.  Somehow that pioneer ending is still coming out.  Probably due to my frequent visits to this website, waiting for her monthly update on her romance novel.    Isn’t it due yet this month?

All right, so I headed over to the garden yesterday with the mission of digging out the carrots for me and my parents.  Well, I can officially say I got started!  YIKERS we went carrot happy in spring!  I’ve NO idea what my parents will do with all the carrots, but i got enough from about 1/8 of the row for myself.  Needless to say, I dug up my portion and about 4/8th of theirs. 

First, I loosened the soil around the carrots with the handy dandy pitch fork, then i pulled them out and placed them on a pile. 

 Next I pulled the ends off and place them in the big silver tub.

 Once the tub is full of carrots with the ends plucked off…I dump them into the big blue wheel barrow.

Once the wheelbarrow was full, I brought it back to the house and dumped most of them into my parents van (ok, into a container IN my parents van), and then dumped mine onto the not swept cement pad.  Then I hosed them down, swept them around a bit (thanks for the help mom), and hosed them down some more.

After that, I put them back into the big silver tub (kinda hosed that out first), and carried them in. 

Today’s job….cut off the ends so they don’t grow all groovy on me all winter in the fridge.  Then stuff them all neatly and orderly into some bags.  Poke holes into the bags for them to breathe all winter in the fridge.  Then…stuff them into the fridge for the winter!  The pleasure of storing food.  Did you know I haven’t bought carrots for I don’t know how many years?  OK, i do admit buying baby carrots for veggies and dip when in a pinch for an event…but actual, real carrots…i haven’t bought them in FOREVER!  (yes, i know, many would argue that baby carrots are real carrots….but are they really?  LOL  just kidding.  i don’t beleive all the hype about the process they go through to become the amazingly handy snack that they are.)

Carrots anyone?