We had a great time in Salt Lake with my family! We celebrated Megan and Jarom's birthday's and just had fun hanging out. Nathan liked the plane ride, it was fun cause he could say plane this time around (sounds like pane)!
I made these cookies the other day, and a friend wanted me to post this recipe. Maybe somebody else will love it too! Here it is:
1 1/2 C. pumpkin
1/4 C. water
2 C. brown sugar
1 C. oil
1 tsp. vanilla
4 C. flour
2 tsp. soda
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 C. choc. chips
Mix together first 4 ingredients. Mix together dry ingredients and stir in, add choc chips last. Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased cookie sheet. Bake @ 350 for about 10 min.
Enjoy!
As I was reading blogs this morning, I noticed a recurring theme...most people are still wearing shorts! It has gotten a bit chilly here lately, highs in the 60's, 70's if we're lucky. Now, I'm not saying this is really cold, but it has warranted pants and jackets. It's not even October yet! I am excited to be pulling out my cute winter clothes that haven't had much use in the past few years, but I am also beginning to wonder how long I'm going to have to wear them! I am a little sad that I can't wear shorts and sandals anymore, but I am also loving the fact that I can curl up on the sofa in front of the fireplace with some hot cocoa! :)
This is Nathan and his cousin Ayden one day while I worked. My sister-in-law Xan watched him for a few days and my mother-in-law Sally watched him for a couple of other days. It would take him some time to warm back up to me. I think he was trying to decide if he was going to forgive me or not, and if I was going to be leaving him again. I finished almost two weeks ago, so it's nice to be back at home again. He had lots of fun playing with Ayden, Xan and Sally.
On another note, it has been pretty nice weather until yesterday. We woke up to rain this morning, hopefully it doesn't rain too much!
We live just south of the Coeur d'Alene, ID, airport. It hasn't been too bad because mostly small private planes and jets fly in and out of there. (Spokane International Airport is a 30-40 minute drive from here). This morning as a plane flew overhead I thought, "A plane could totally crash into our house!" Later today I read this news about a plane crash about 300 yards from us. Check out this map to see how close it was to our house! Maybe we should move?
So, on Tuesday, I started my 80-hour preceptorship at the hospital here in Coeur d'Alene. I am doing this to get my Idaho RN license. I was amazingly emotional after leaving Nathan that whole day. I had to be there again on Wednesday, and by Thursday morning, Nathan was quite mad at me. It made me feel terrible! So, I have 4 more full 12 hour days, and one 8 hour day. Wish me luck!
Since it's the first year that we have had a garden, I am pretty darn proud of what has come out of it. We started reaping the benefits with zuchinni and some peas a few weeks ago. We got our first tomatoes earlier this week. As you can see from the pictures, we have some pumpkins growing, I probably have about 10-15 right now. I am excited to see how many we'll get and how big they will be. Stay tuned!
