the nephews

We enjoyed seeing the nephews when we were in Charleston too!

Happy Birthday Cathy!

A little belated post since we were in Charleston this past weekend!

just because it makes me smile

Spoiled Rotten

Fruits of our garden

One of our tomato plants is starting to produce little cherry tomatoes. These are some of the first few...

Our newest purchase

And one I'm not happy about! We purchased a new dryer 3 years ago when we bought our house...last weekend the motor broke on the dryer. After a $80 service call to find out it would cost about $350 + labor to repair we decided purchasing a new dryer made more sense {and we purchased the extended warranty - that would cover another service call if needed}. So here is our newest purchase...

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to both of our dads!

Move Over Betty Crocker

Lately we've been baking bread, both that require starters. A friend from work gave me a starter for Amish friendship bread. It's a good sweet bread and you can change the flavor depending on what pudding packet you add. We've tried the regular with cinnamon, just vanilla and chocolate - my favorite is the plain vanilla. I've baked the bread several times and shared the starter with other friends.

More recently I tracked down a starter for a sourdough bread. We baked our first batch Saturday night at 11pm (poor planning and not reading all of the instructions!) and enjoyed almost the whole loaf Sunday for breakfast and lunch. DJ is voting we make the Amish bread one last time (maybe lemon for summer) and keep baking the sourdough. I think he commented at least 5 times about the sourdough bread...so sourdough bakers we are!

trice...the traveler

Trice gets to go with us lots of places... She likes to go to our equestrian competitions, mostly because the girls love her and show her lots of attention but also because she loves the "big dogs". This is one of my favorite photos one of our athletes took this past year.

Hello to my friend E

It's been over 6 months since our trip to Iowa at Thanksgiving. We stopped in Murray, KY and I instantly had a new friend...Miss E. Maybe Miss E wants to come visit me next? I hope to see her soon.

Love, Trice

The River

(photo from the River Alliance website)

Three rivers meet in Columbia. The River Alliance has been working on connecting over 12 miles of trails. We love to go to the river and walk, especially with Trice. Yesterday we went down to the river and walked and Trice wanted to swim. So today we went back to the river prepared to get in (at least to our knees) with Trice. The river is high thanks to the rain we've had the last few weeks. Trice was ready to get in and looked back at us for the OK...as she started to walk into the rive there was a sharp drop off. So Trice was soaked right away and cautious of the water the rest of the walk.

Next time we go I'm planning to bring my camera! I think there will be some great shots.

Happy Birthday

Today we have two birthdays to celebrate...Grandpa Strub & Caroline. We hope you both have a wonderful birthday!