Family photo

We were messing around with Photobooth on the Mac and got this photo. It was a filter that shrank everything toward the center of the photo, so we got a tiny-headed baby Emily! She laughed and laughed as we were playing with it.

Here's a more normal shot:

Our little Christmas tree

Proud Grandpa

Grandpa with Emily and Lexi.

Greg, Kari, and Lexi last weekend.

Pie

So I made an apple-cranberry pie last week. My first pie ever, inspired by our surplus of apples and a recipe in the Cook's Illustrated magazine.

I guess I didn't take any photos of the interior of the pie, but it was mostly apple with a thin layer of cranberries near the bottom. The crust turned out perfectly, flaky and non-tough, and the apples were good too. Sadly, though, it wasn't just an apple pie. The addition of the cranberries did it no favors. They were just a little too tart still, and kind of overpowered the apple-pie-ness of the dessert. So the pie hung out for a while before it was finally finished off.

Lesson learned. Stick to apples in an apple pie.

Mountain Home Airshow

Karissa, Stillman (Scott’s dad), and I went to the Mountain Home airshow in August this year, which is ALWAYS a high point for KJ since it’s military showing off their best equipment & stunts! These pics are a li’l out of order, but they show what she liked best I think: She got in the helicopter, tank, C130 (I don’t think that I have a pic of that one) & another big plane that I don’t know what it’s called. Of course, the military guys – we got one pic with some, not that she didn’t try multiple times with others. :) Not included are all the “jumpie houses & obstacle courses” that they put in one of the hangers on the base for the kids to burn off some energy! Thank God for their foresight!!

(posted for Christy by Tricia)

School photos

These are Karissa's school pictures that Christy emailed to me and asked me to post on the family blog. The Kinder photo from last Sept (9/07) and

this First grade photo (much older & TALLER)

just taken (9/08)