Basil 101

Basil Drying:

1. Go to the local Farmers Market with your favorite person. (My favorite person was Jason)
2. Pick out the freshest bunches of basil from your favorite little stand.
3. Pay.
4. Go out for breakfast with your favorite person. (Preferably to somewhere you can use a coupon like I did...)
5. After you are done eating run errands and comment on the smell of the basil each time you get back into the car.
6. Go to the grocery store with your favorite person.
7. Laugh so much and carry on about who really knows what.
8. Hope you don't get kicked out of the grocery store because you are having so much fun with your favorite person!
9. Bag your groceries.
10. Continue home.
11. Get out dehydrator. (My fun-to-be-around aunt and uncle let me borrow 2 of theirs while they are on vacation).
12. Place fresh basil on trays.
13. Plug in.
14. Wait patiently for basil to dry.
15. Check and rotate trays.
16. When completely dry remove from trays.
17. Crumble up with food processor, coffee grinder etc.
18. Find a cutesy jar.
19. Place dried, crumbled, fragrant basil in jar.
20 Stare at it in the jar because you like the way it looks in the jar you picked. (ok so maybe I have a thing for cutesy jars, ok...)
21. Enjoy basil on cuisine of choice.

(Woops this is from) Flower Arranging 101

-How did that get in here?
-Ok so maybe I can't stop looking at the arrangement I made this A.M.
-Yes I planted this picture here!
-But isn't it the cutest?
-All flowers from my very own garden.

09-09-09

-I couldn't let today go by without a post.
-Even though I have nothing interesting to say.
-I left the oven on (with an apple pie warming up) when I went to work.
-My brother in-law (the one that ALWAYS bails me out) came over turned the oven off,
-and took the pie. (I told him to!)
-I got my hair cut tonight.
-I cleaned out the freezers today and made an itemization sheet for both of them.
-My new favorite treat is frozen sliced apples.
-I stopped to see my niece after work, did I ever tell you how much I love her?
-I didn't think I had ever mentioned that.
-I have a really bad sinus head ache, but life goes on right?
-Life is good that's all I can say.

Happy 09-09-09

Oh Happy Tuesday!

My NEW favorite photos:

(Above) Jason and I on our 3rd Anniversary. Jason met me at my parents after work and showed up wearing a brown shirt and I was wearing brown as well...we must think alike huh...

(Below) My brother Heath his wife Di and their little sweety Lilah joined Jason and I and my parents for supper. I love the fact Lilah is trying to get down so she can RUN! And we can't forget about the little one in Di's tummy, baby Reindal.
Do you have favorite photos?
Or
A Niece as cute as mine?

Freezing Sweet Corn

For some reason this picture cracks me up! I don't know if it is the little stools they are sitting on, the enthusiasm, or just what it is, but it sure makes me laugh.

Jason and Adam picked sweet corn for me & husked it:I blanched and cooled it:

Jason labled the bags:

Jason & Adam cut it off (thanks to a friend for the secret to cutting it off the cob):

I put it in bags and froze it:

The goats ate the cobs:

Who wants to help eat it?

Happy 3rd Anniversary my LOVE

I still cannot believe I am married to the

"CUTIE that drove by school in that blue dodge".

I am so in LOVE with you! I can't believe it has been 3 years since that rainy, beautiful, special day! I couldn't stop smiling the whole day and I especially loved the time when the photographer photographed just "us" it seemed as though we were in our own little world, just in love with each other!

You give me so many reasons to fall more and more in LOVE with you every day:
-the walks with you outside looking at our garden, trees, yard
-the funny remarks you make about "eating healthy"...
-the dancing in the kitchen
-the homemade pizza nights (with your special touch (and lots of butter) crust)
-the hug/kiss in the morning before you go to work
-your touch, I just can't explain it
-your humor...you truly make me laugh ALL the time!
-"OUR" shows you DVR so we can watch them together and fast forward commercials so I don't fall asleep.
-your cool when I fall asleep while watching any movie, you just stop it and let me sleep :)
-how you help me out to the garage in the winter when I am wearing high (slippery) heels, and you always tell me "but hey, they look good"

-and the list goes on and on...

I hope you understand what you mean to me! Thanks for making it easy to create this book "What you mean to me...My LOVE" I enjoyed reminiscing about when I knew you loved me, the first time I knew I loved you, one of my very favorite things about you, one of the most fun times I have ever had with you, and our biggest hope for our future! I love you so much Jas!

Thanks for being the husband you are, for forgiving me and for

being my best friend.