Jen & Nate's Wedding.....10.16.10

Moms lighting the candles:

Jen and her dad:

Yes, they are the happy couple, despite Jen's face :)

Beautiful ice sculpture:

Our two kiddos:

Rachel with Alyssa and Adam:

Several relatives of the groom made over 300 dozen cookies...this was one of the more unique looking ones:

Me with Sheri and Lynne:

Jan, Sheri and Jim:

Mom and Sheri:

Sheri with Pastors Barry and Elizabeth:

The Bride and Groom:

In the middle of a huge conga line:

Jen and Nate with David:

David in heaven :)

The cake:

Dancin' the night away:

Me and Kurt:

Alyssa with Lynne:

Lynne and Dave:

Linda and Dave. Linda is our organist at church:

From left to right: Cait & Bobby, Bob & Kathy:

Nope, she didn't have too much to drink! Love Rachel's smile!

Beautiful centerpieces...and we got to bring one home!

Alyssa and Jen:

Cutie Pie

I sure hope when Alyssa comes home next weekend she realizes that she'll have to sleep in the spare room on the futon. Miss Macy seems to have claimed her pillow now :)

Go State!!

Kids at the Homecoming Game today!

Quick Minestrone Soup

Cannellini beans, diced tomatoes, beef broth, minced garlic:

Miniature meatballs, frozen mixed veggies, pasta:

Finished product:

Recipe:

3 small cans beef broth

1 lb. frozen meatballs (small ones...Rosina italian style were especially good)

1 can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed

1 bag frozen mixed vegetables

1 cup pasta (shells)

1 minced clove garlic (I used already minced in a jar)

1 can diced tomatoes with basil, garlic, oregano

Throw everything in a large dutch oven, bring to a boil. Add pasta and cook an additional 15 minutes.

Mom made this recipe earlier in the week and sent some in for lunch for Jamie and me on Tuesday. We both really enjoyed it! I doubled the recipe today so I'd be certain to have leftovers.

I still have the remaining dish sitting out cooling....think I better go get a small dish :)

Geiger Kids

Then:

Now:

No Cruelty Here

Certain people have accused me of cruelty to penguins....

anyone see evidence of this?? Look how sweetly they sit there....even have

access to the television....

Penguin Love

These guys wanted to hide in the box and go back to Ireland with this cross stitch, but I just couldn't let them leave...you just can't imagine how hard I work them here.

That's A Lot of Rain!

The official rainfall total at the Lehigh Valley International Airport was 8.05 inches. The radio station I listen to has a group of people called the Rain Gaugers that call in the amount of rain they had in their back yard. This morning I heard anything from 7 inches to over 9 inches in the last 24-36 hours. We have a creek (and I use that term loosely) that often dries up in the summer. With the lack of rain over the last several months, it dried up much earlier than usual. As you can see in the pictures, it now looks like a roaring river :)



I took the back way to work this morning not even thinking that I would be driving along the Bushkill Creek that tends to overflow its banks very easily. It's not unusual that the road is actually closed; I was certain as I saw a long line of traffic coming towards me that they had turned around because the road was closed! I was quite surprised to find that the road was actually not closed!

There were plenty of photo ops, but I really didn't have the time to stop for long, plus there was traffic all over the place. I took these pictures right by the entrance to the now closed Bushkill Park. If you enlarge the first picture, you can actually see the Bushkill Park sign....that's not usually under water!

The last picture was taken from the bridge I was on...there was actually rapids right at the bridge, as the water was all the way up to the bridge and couldn't all pass under it. Again, had I had more time, I could have taken better pictures.

Sunset

OK, it's been a while:)

PJ's!

It's been about a year now that Adam has worked at Papa John's. He began as a delivery driver, and has now been training for the last month to work as a manager. I picked up pizza the other night, only to notice who my 'pizza experience' had been managed by: