Lazy Dog!

Here is Abby in her bed...is this the picture of pure relaxation or what?

Vegetables, vegetables, and more vegetables...

This is some of the harvest from our garden this year! We have so many peppers. My freezer is full so I'm at a loss as to what to do...I could pickle them but I haven't taken the time to yet since many times they don't turn out like I think they should. The bugs have moved in tho' so we don't have much left now. I'm not one to put pesticides on so eventually the bugs win. The broccoli was fun and turned out pretty good. Need to go pick my basil and make more pesto again.

Laptop Lunch #1

Well we finally got Ian's NEW Laptop Lunch yesterday. So last night I stayed up and made the "Sneaky mom's tomato sauce" from "Vegan Lunch Box" book I just got. (see the blog link to veganlunchbox for more info). It is really tasty and it is chucked full of vegetables!!! Something I am having a time with getting him to eat in his lunches. Another book I recently bought is "Deceptively Delicious". Ian says he doesn't care if I sneak vegetables into his food...as long as he doesn't have to taste 'em. Silly kid. We do make him eat them at home but when we are not there to "encourage" him I need to still be sure he is getting some. Anyway, here is a picture of his lunch this morning. The pizza was a bit too big to fit in the lunchbox so I had to cut it. I put the sneaky tomato sauce on it and then sauteed some mushrooms with olive oil, garlic, salt and topped it...YUM! Smelled wonderful! He's excited to eat his lunch today. The cookies are the Wheat Germ cookies from Aunt Eleanor. So he's getting a nice balanced meal. The crust of the pizza has whole wheat flour and cornmeal in it too.

Faces

On our trip to MN we were waiting for some Chinese food and so I took some pictures of the boys making faces!

Lights...camera...ACTION!!!!

I forgot I shouldn't hold the camera sideways! Sorry! Ian wanted me to shoot this video of him. He's such an actor! This was in the Boundry Waters at a little waterfall area.

More vacation moments

Boys unloading the canoe from the car. Did I mention I love having a boy!

Vacation to MN

My attempt at flowers with my little camera. I actually think this one turned out pretty good!

Ian aka Wilderness Boy!
Ian was taking more "interesting" pictures.
We hiked to a waterfall spot and Ian got ahead of us and we found him hanging around waiting for us! :)

I sat in the middle and the boys paddled. Ian fished a little bit but didn't catch anything. We even saw a mama moose and her baby but were too far away for a great picture. Some other people were on the lake too and this lady yells to this other lady about a 1/4 mile away to look...of course that scared the moose and they went into the woods. Silly people!
Ian took this photo...I had mentioned that I'd like a different camera and I'd give him this one when I got a different one. Now he thinks he needs to hone (?sp) his skills! Indian Pictographs on Hegman Lake

Iron Ore Mine truck at Hibbing, MN

We just got back from our vacation to MN. It was so nice and cool up there. Mosquito's weren't even too bad. We drove by Hibbing so we stopped to see the iron ore mining. Ian really enjoyed that. Of course we had been by here when we were here for Matt's wedding but hadn't stopped. We were headed to Ely where they wanted to take me into the Boundry Waters. We went over to Gooseberry Falls after being at the Boundry Waters and then we headed to the Lutsen Mountains and rode the Alpine Slide...very fun! Lauris took a video of one of his rides down...will have to post that later.