That Time of Year Again

Its that time of year again when the weather gets gray, dark, cold and wet and I get sad, bored, antsy and crazy.



Its also about this time every year that I start to plan our annual Christmas/Anniversary vacation but for some reason I'm not inspired this year. We've been to Cabo the last 2yrs and a mexican cruise for our honeymoon. Phil and I are both burnt out on Mexico. We plan on going to Jamaica next year for Christmas/Anniversary/Phil's graduation... so maybe this year we'll keep it simple? Mountain Retreat? ugh, too cold.


scrolling through our old Mexico photos is giving me the itch to get to nice weather. Maybe we'll try Cancun this year THEN be done with Mexico for a while?

Got any suggestions for Cancun? Ky, Jimmy, Ki-Ki?

For Hire

Have you ever had that amazing, incredible, satisfying feeling that there is a place for everything and everything is in it's place in your home???? What about having that feeling and add everything looking pretty!


Thats the feeling I have this very moment. It is one of the greatest, freeing, feelings!

My New roomie, Ruby Ellen Kiker has only been here a week and she has remarkably made my life BETTER. She has a gift for cleaning, organizing and decorating. I'm trying to convince her that she has a gift and she needs to use it!

I'm telling you, you should hire her to re-do your home/garage/office. She is very thorough but somehow incredibly fast. She redid my bedroom(that I have been trying to do for months) in under 2hrs! She moved my office into the guest room and the guest room into my office in half a day and she reorganized my laundry room/pantry while I was out to lunch with Emma.

I'm not joking. She is really for hire!

Dear Garden,

I noticed this morning we may have had our first frost. I'm not sure but I wanted to thank you for the wonderful summer. I think we did well together considering it was my first time. I appreciate how you are still producing strawberries, tomatoes, green beans, carrots, squash, egg plant, greens, herbs and beets. However I was a little disappointed that we had the worlds tallest corn yet a very small yeild, perhaps next year we wont waste that space? Next year I also plan on being more proactive with the slug issues, sorry I let them eat you. What do you think about planting a winter garden? Then we can continue our relationship until our next big spring planting. I think Barb will teach Ruby and I how to build a cloche to insulate lettuces and such. I hope you like it.

Thanks again for the great summer.

Love Always,
Jenna

Celebrate the Kiker Hikers

They've almost made it to the finish line!
We want to celebrate these crazy kids and their 2700mile journey with a

Mexican Feast
at the Kiker Parent's house
Friday 10/9/09 7pm
Be there or be square!

Darn

Today while updating my "accountability" list I typed: week TWENTY! Then I realized I forgot to workout in September. Wow I wanted to have lost 15-18 pounds by now but I'm stuck at 10. Oops. I want to make excuses about lots of vacations, la la la la but part of my fitness journey is learning how to bounce back to my routine after its been interrupted. Phil also threatened to cancel timberhill again so that also helped motivate me.

Here's to getting back on track!

Kiker Hiker Countdown

Just got a text from Ruby. They are in Skokomish,WA and down to the last 13days of their great adventure!

Congratulations

Congratulations to Ryan and Lindsey who welcomed baby Dylan late last night.
Lots of friends and family were at the hospital to welcome him.
He's PERFECT!

It was just like the movies. Ryan got to bring Dylan out to the hallway to reveal him to his anxious fans then walk him to the nursery. About 20people lined up along the nursery windows snapping shots at the nurses weighing and measuring the little man. Watching the proud papa gaze at his tiny new son was heart melting.

Denny took a lot of great photos so be checking his blog.