Summer Crafts & Parties

Kylie and I kept busy this summer with arts & crafts, tea parties, and kids birthday parties!

Scones & Hello Carrots!

 Care Bear cousin coloring time

 "These are my eyes now!"

 Snake Pit!

Ready, set, throw!

Happy Birthday Nathaniel!

¡Piñata!

 Sketch for quilting design

 Finished!

Back side with quilting detail

Healthy foods "tea" party

Happy Birthday Ryan!

 Gone Fishin' Game!

Kylie helped stuff the fish in our "fish factory"

 Yikes! There's sharks in that water!

Scuba themed party fun

Time to cool off!

Vegas Baby!

This week, we dropped Kylie off with my mom and headed down to Vegas. We started the trip off right with a night at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane before our flight. We even got to see Richie (although out of respect for the Vegas rule, no photos were taken!). Thanks for showing us a good time Richie!!

 Winky-Blinky fishing for goldfish!

 Lounging in the Peacock Room

 A lucky Vegas-themed Christmas tree!

 Ready to roll

 View of the strip

 So, we had lunch at Beijing Noodle No. 9, and we ordered this pan fried pork dumpling.  Autumn has made these dumpling from scratch at home before.  And guess what!  Hers were just like these.  :)

Let's party!

Gobble! Gobble!

We spent all of Thanksgiving day out on the farm with loads of friends, family and food! We were so thankful to finally get to celebrate Thanksgiving at home for the first time in 5 years, and it was such a treat to take part in the preparations! Thank you to everyone for making this such a special day.

 Traveling buddies reunited!

 Good morning!

 Steamy sunbreaks

 Peeling and chopping potatoes

 Texting and basting

 Wine is breathing

 Best friends

 The calm before the storm

 

 Ready to mash

 Roasting the pig!

 Gettin' the party started!

 Uno!

 Yum!

 Our head chef and dinner marshall

 Our sommeliers

 Moon rising

 

 Tile rummy!

The Kowitz's

Pit Party!

Tonight we had Johnathan, Krissy, Virgile and Sterling over for a Pit Reunion Party. We tested out the pumpkin pie martinis to make sure they would be just right for Thanksgiving. Everyone brought over food, and we had a great time! J-Bone even won his first round EVER!

Gloating over his big win!