Tuesday, December 11, 2012
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Blueberry Hollow - Thanksgiving 2012
We were very lucky to have another opportunity to spend our Thanksgiving holiday this year at Blueberry Hollow with Daniels' aunt's family, the Wickhams. We had such a great time, and I hated to see it ended. This year, instead of driving to Portland one day earlier, we decided to go the next day, on Thanksgiving Day itself. Luckily the traffic wasn't that bad and we made it just in time for the feast.
Sarah finally has hair!
Aunt Barbara giving instructions on how to get the food
Some of the guests
Scrumptious
Abby, Aunt Susan and Uncle Rick
Queuing for food
Finger licking good Aunt Barbara!
My plate! Thank you so much Aunt Barbara for making the yummy halal goat curry and baked salmon for us. It was very thoughtful of you and we really appreciated it.
I met Mrs Ruth, Uncle Eric's mom for the first time. She's a very sweet lady. Bride to be, Robin in green polka dot green cardigan. Her wedding to Sam, Daniel's cousin, was only one day away when this picture was taken.
The boys's table
Our hosts, Uncle John and Aunt Barbara in a candid moment.
Sarah's own candid moment - trying to get as many persimmons as she can.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
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I love these!
Paintings my sister did for her friend's baby's room. Adik, buat la satu set untuk kakak :-)!
Monday, November 5, 2012
Summer Visiting Vacation 2012 - Part 3
July 9 2012
We went to Peach Crest Farm in Stratford, Oklahoma to pick up some peaches with Poppy. I was totally excited and we got ready pretty early for our U-pick trip. I love peaches and Daniel has been telling me about how good peaches can be here. I've never seen a peach tree before and I was hoping for some big towering trees that could provide me with some shades from the scorching hot sun. When we arrived at the farm, my eyes started to twitch when I saw the real deal. Oh no! These trees were super tiny and the temperature on the dashboard said 92 degrees and there was hardly any shade! For a split second, the idea of staying inside the car with the A/C on seemed far more tempting. But seriously, although I felt that the weather gods were feeling a little too frisky for my liking, I did get myself out of the car to start my peach picking adventure. I was glad I did. Despite being a little bit on the small side, some of the peaches were pretty good.
Since Peach Crest is a USDA certified organic farm, no pesticides are used here. We saw hundreds, could even be thousands of giant grasshopper everywhere in the farm, jumping and hopping, happily eating the peaches until there's nothing left except the pits.
40 minutes later, and we were done with peach picking!
We drove by Stratford little town. There was nothing much to see or do here.
Sarah : "Move along folks!"
We took a different route to go home and it was great to be able to see other towns along the way. This is the city of Ada.
Somewhere along the way home, we stopped at an Amish store to buy some fudge.
There are some pretty good fudge here and many choices to choose from.
One of the many beautiful landscapes of Oklahoma on the way back.
A sudden, welcome, rain shower cooled down the temperature from extremely hot to pleasant.
Last activity of the day - the Diet Coke and Mentos geyser.
Chilling out at Poppy's place. In case you're wondering why the boys were only wearing swimming shorts, they were waiting to have water balloon fights. The sweet lady wearing an apron, that's GB, Poppy's wife.
Beautiful and cozy house!
Water balloon fight, especially after the rain is FUN!
Despite the hot weather, the backyard is unbelievably green and so pretty.
Thriving vegetable garden
Serious grilling is going on here
Producing this yummy dinner
Sarah with the ever cheerful Aunt B.
Cleaning up after dinner.
Hanging out with Poppy in the backyard.