family dinner...again!

Last Monday, as I'm driving into our driveway, I get a text message from my nephew, Kevin, saying "don't eat. I'm making dinner". This is Kevin, cooking away!

I had to get pictures but Kyra wasn't very into it. She said " don't take my picture. i didn't shower today and my hair is greasy". So what did I say? "your hair doesn't look greasy". oops. what I meant was "your hair looks fine. you can't tell you didn't wash it."

I asked her to smile for this one---i get no respect.

Kevin fixed sausage in red sauce over tortellini and spinach with mushrooms. it was so yummy.

As usual, my Kevin said "You don't need a picture of me". Then Kyra wanted to take a picture of the two of us so I gave her the camera.

Just us two. After dinner we had to make brownies because kyra didn't like the batch the day before with walnuts. they were so yummy!

Thank you, Kevin Goodwin, for fixing dinner!

Family Dinner

Last Sunday, I invited all close family members for dinner. Mike and Lana brought two of their grandchildren. Here they are playing a game on Wii with Brad and Kyra. Kiyanah is standing up and Logan is on the sofa with Kyra. When they first arrived, I asked Logan and Kiyanah to go get Kyra and Brad. Logan walked right over and knocked on their door while Kiyanah stayed by me at my door. We had to introduce them to each other.

Lana, Kevin, Mike and I enjoyed some time around the table after dinner. We enjoyed Macaroni and cheese, Grandma Helen style, cabbage salad with Greek dressing, green beans and homemade brownies with walnuts. mm-mm- good! It was nice to spend some time together.

walking

One day after Kyra and I went shopping, we took the cats for a walk. This is the western border of our property. Kevin has planted olive trees here.

This is Pipi checking out a pine (?) tree. Kevin planted it several years ago.

Rain, rain...

One day last week, I was driving to my exercise class and came upon this little flood. this shot shows the water wending its way north. I know, north! that's the way the water flows in our neck of the woods.

here its flooding the road. The next day the road was severly eroded -- sorry, I didn't take a picture and its since been fixed.

Driving on the new lanes

Coming home from the exercise studio on Monday, these are the new lanes they've been working on for almost two years!

one month down

Dec 16: ribcage-34"
Jan 15: ribcage-33"
down--1 inch!!!

Dec 16: waist-35 1/2"
Jan 15: waist-34 "
down--1 1/2 inches!!!!

Dec 16: hips-41 1/2"
Jan 15: hips-39 3/4"
down--3/4 inch!!!

Dec 16: thighs-21 3/8"
Jan 15: thighs-21 1/4"
down--1/2 inch!

Dec 16: calf-14 1/4"
Jan 15: calf-14"
down--1/4 inch!


Dec 16: bicep-12 1/4"
Jan 15: bicep-12"
down--1/4 inch!

so i totaled my losses and it comes out to 4 1/4 inches! i've increased my workouts to at least 5 days a week, stuff like kickboxing (argh) and interval circuits. they really make me sweat. here's to more inches lost next month!

Sunrise

I was watching the sunrise the other day and tried to capture it through the window screen.
another one through the screen
I finally went to the front door--the color was almost gone.