Poppy's Birthday

Last weekend Helen's family came over to celebrate her Dad's birthday

New Camera

I took some pictures of Lulu and Grayson with our new Panasonic ZS15 camera, which replaced our old Panasonic TZ5. In researching the new camera, I actually read up on the basics of photography. I had always meant to get around to it, but never did until now. Before, I always used the camera on the automatic setting, but with my new knowledge I'm going to try to use the manual settings more. 

Simple Things

Like remembering how they looked when they sat at the counter each morning eating breakfast

Fall Activities

We had a nice break from scheduled activities during the summer, but now we're back in the swing of things. Roller hockey season is under way, along with basketball, and soon tennis. I help out with the boys hockey practices on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, play basketball on Wednesday, and hockey on Sunday.

I was playing keep away with Derek before Adam's practice on Thursday when our feet got tangled, my skates went out from under me, and I came down with all my weight on the lip where the glass meets the boards.

Evidently the impact was really loud and everyone turned to see that I had blood coming out of a gash on my forehead. I put pressure on it, skated off the rink, kind of got it to stop bleeding, put a band aid on it and ran the practice. The kids kept looking at the band aid during practice and pointing out that it looked like it was still bleeding.

There was another dad helping with the practice and he was being really attentive to my injury. I finally asked him if he was a doctor. He said that he was a pediatric oncologist and that I probably did need stitches...but no chemo. 

I went to the doctor the next morning and got some stitches

Pig Feet

Derek's not particularly adventurous when it comes to food, but for some reason he has really been wanting to try pig feet. Maybe, since he loves bacon, he thought the feet would be good too. He researched recipies and this weekend we finally gave in and cooked some pig feet.

It looks good, but we couldn't find any meat on the pig feet. It all seemed like a bunch of cartilage and other non-meat parts. We all agreed that we probably won't be having it again.

Adam with a bean from his garden

Derek looking at Rocky Mountain Oysters. Oh no.