Thanks giving holiday.

Before the food hit the table.

Hope everyone had a great Thanks Giving. Around here we had a great time. Lots of food. Mom brought a yummy pineapple upside down cake and Aunt Patty brought a eggplant Parmesan that was also yummy. We enjoyed receiving a phone call from family up in Kansas where Erica spent the holiday and just relaxing around the homestead talking about old times.

Yummy pineapple upside down cake that Mom made.

The food on the table. Plate in front is Aunt Patty's yummy eggplant Parmesan.

Hope everyone enjoyed their feast as much as we did.

Been pretty busy lately

picture of hawk I took in the back yard.

I've decided to go with windows live photo galleries for editing. I think it was already in the computer. It's not as fabbo as the two I used to use for editing but... It's a lot easier to use than those sites you have to wait to up load your photo's and then your not sure who is looking at them. You have to worry about all the settings and this is just as good and I'm liking it.

We got excited and picked the watermelon a little too soon. It was sweet still but.... only the very center was truly ripe. So.....

Watermelon water!

We decided to make watermelon water. Which was really good and refreshing. We just added the fresh water melon to some water with a bunch of crushed ice and yum.... What a great pick me up.

Baby watermelon!

We've got one more chance at a watermelon though. We think it will be ready right around Thanks giving. Yum!

Diaper Cake

Grandpa helping make the diaper cake.

We all pitched in a built Erica a diaper cake for her baby shower. It was actually pretty simple. We rolled up two packages of size 2 diapers. Then secured with rubberbands. I used some cloth diapers in the cake too. We decorated with various baby things like pacifiers and ribbons and added some sample shampoo and baby oils.

washcloth flower

Veronica wiped up these cute roses made from little baby wash cloths. And they made the cake look even more awesome!

Diaper cake as centerpiece.

It turned out to be a great centerpiece. Best of all it will be disassembled and used later.

baby shower food!

 All the food on the table came out great too. Thanks to everyone who helped.

Girls having fun at the shower.

I hope everyone had a great time and Erica wanted me to let everyone know she is going to be late sending out those thank you notes as she is on the road traveling to her next duty station. When she gets there and gets settled she will be sending those out. However they may be on face book as she is doing a lot of her communicating that way.