Kitchen Redo

We had big plans for a major kitchen remodel, but with half the money leaving over the last couple years I took a more practical approach. Nights and weekends for about 6 months and we have a hugely more workable kitchen. 50% more counter space, connection to the dining room, water and ice from the fridge and a dishwasher. I love to cook and now it is even more fun. The boys and I moved at our own pace and did most of the work ourselves. I want to thank Stacy, Birgit, Ian, Rich, Gar, and Beorn for their direct support or guidance. You are always welcome here for dinner. More photos here.

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Amy the Great and Sy Sy

SILAS SAYS: It is a really fun time with Amy so far and there are going to be many more fun parts soon. Cause today we are going to Haight street where there are really cool stores with old fashioned toys. She came to my class and we made poinsettias. she helped me fold the leaves and my dad helped me make a really cool shaped pot.

Amy took care of us last night because my daddy went out. We made chocolate chip cookies and instead of butter me an Amy put apple sauce in the cookies and it tasted really good because the apple sauce didn't even taste. and on that same night we watched the first Pirates of the Caribbean. And a few days ago George was here and we had a really fun time with him and we wrestled and he slept over for one night because he got here really late so he had to sleep over.

Thanksgiving a Few Days Later

We finally are getting around to our Thanksgiving blog. We spent 5 nights in Portland Oregon with the Grammas. Upon our return to SF we had a glorious day surfing at Bolinas. then the boys headed to their mom's for 7 nights and DaDa went to Vegas.

SILAS SAYS: We were at my dad's for seven nights and then we were at my mom's for seven nights. And while we were with my dad we were in Oregon. In Oregon we found a lot of letterboxes and we found two hitchhikers (a type of letter box). You can see the picture of the Steel Bridge and there was a letterbox on this bridge. We had Thanksgiving in Portland and we had a GIGANTIC! turkey. After we the turkey we had one more night there and at that night we made turkey enchiladas.

JASPER SAYS: In Portland I had a fun time going letterboxing, eating turkey and swimming. We went swimming almost every day. At the swimming pool they had a whirlpool and a water slide. First, you had to go through a river and then you went into the whirlpool. The letterboxes we did were really good stamps. The ones that I can remember by names are "Stellata by Starlight", "Punch the One-Eyed Clown", and "Lone Fir Cemetery". The "Lone fir Cemetery" was the hardest one because it was in a cemetery and you had to look at all the names on the grave stones and go in a compass direction and a certain number of paces. We tried to go at night, but it was way too hard. I think the turkey on Thanksgiving was really good. My favorite part about Thanksgiving is the food. My three favorite Thanksgiving foods are stuffing, cranberry sauce and turkey.