Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Happy Birthday, Ryan

Our youngest son is 30 years old today.

As older parents say, "How did the years pass so quickly?"

Ryan came into the world during Hurricane Allen in deep south Texas on August 6, 1980. The barometric pressure from the hurricane played havoc with my pregnancy

and Ryan entered the world three weeks early... but weighing 9 pounds!

Everyone seems to know Ryan.

From the time he was born he has never known

a stranger. Before we had a chance to use

the raquetball courts at the club where we were

members, Ryan at the ripe age of four knew

most all of the members.

His ability to make friends and be a good

friend has served him well as a successful

realtor. We couldn't be more proud of our

son as he celebrates the "big 3-0"

Ryan

It's White Wednesday at White Sands, New Mexico

White Sands, New Mexico

ca. 1961

My brother, sister and me

When I was growing up, we lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

One of the weekend excursions my parents took us on

was a drive to White Sands, New Mexico.

As you can see the sands truly were white.

We loved playing on the hills of sand.

Sometimes we had large pieces of cardboard

that we used to go "sledding" down the sand.

These were great days for our family!

I'm linking to

Faded Charm

for White Wednesday

http://fadedcharmcottage.blogspot.com/2010/06/white-wednesday-54.html

Tuesdays at the Table: Prosciutto Stuffed Dates

Prosciutto Stuffed Dates

Ingredients


Dates (found in the produce section)


Parmesan Cheese –cut into slivers (see below)


Prosciutto de Parma – cut into strips (see below)


1. Place a date on a cutting board, then using a paring knife incise down the longitudinal axis to the level of the seed. Then, retract the edges if the date, and remove the seed. Toss out seed.


2. Insert a sliver of parmesan (about the length of the date and about 6-8 mm in diameter), then close the date back up.


3. Wrap the date in prosciutto (the width of prosciutto strips should be long enough to make 1-2 wraps around the date, while the length of the strip should equal the length of the date).


4. Refrigerate (we have done up to a day) until 15 minutes before serving time.


5. Preheat oven to 400°F.


6. Transfer wrapped dates to a cookie sheet.


7. Cook in oven for 10-15 minutes.


8. Enjoy!

Dr. Jennifer Peterson

The recipe above was created and written by

our daugther-in-law. I get a kick out of reading her method of writing the directions.

She spends much of her time in surgery,

so her choice for describing this delicious

treat... well, sounds a little "surgical".

Love it!

And we are so proud of Jen!

Visit

All the Small Stuff

for Tuesdays at the Table

http://allthesmallstuff-cole.blogspot.com/

Mosaic Monday: It's all about family...

It's all about family...

We just put our son, his family and his mother-in-law on the plane this morning, headed south to their home in Mexico. They were here for

three weeks. Lance is our oldest son and our business partner in our farming operation.

The farms are located near Manzanillo.

Lance and his wife, Marcela,

their two small children and Marcela's mother,

our youngest son, Ryan, my husband and I all

went to South Padre Island, Texas

to enjoy the beach, Schlitterbahn,

shopping, seafood and just a lot of fun.

Our granddaughter enjoyed two weeks

of swimming, golf, raquetball and

making new friends at the summer camp

sponsored by the club we belong to.

This will probably be the only visit up here for the whole family. Now we will have to make

trips down there to see them.

My son proposed a new idea this visit

which I am thrilled about.

He wants his daughter to learn more about

U.S. holidays, so we are going to

go down there for Thanksgiving!

Lance baked a turkey last year,

complete with gluten-free dressing

(our granddaughter has celiac disease)

and other traditional dishes.

So, we will be spending Thanksgiving

in Mexico!

I just wanted to share with you a few

of the pictures from the past three weeks.

The top left picture in the mosaic is

my granddaughter and me. She helped to

serve birthday cake for a joint birthday

party we gave for our sons.

I'm linking over to Little Red House

for

Mosaic Monday

http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/search/label/Mosaic%20Monday

It's Summer Sunday and I Solved A Silver Mystery!

Jean's Silver Tablesescape

September 25, 1954

I just wrote about Jean a couple of days ago, so if you missed my posting and

are a bit curious about Jean, please go back to my posting on Thursday.

Jean loved to use her silver. This table was set for the small wedding of

my aunt and uncle.

This evening as I looked at this picture which came from an old slide of my father's, I enlarged the picture to see what was in the hutch.

You may need to put your glasses on, but if you look at the picture below

and focus on the hutch, look on the bottom shelf at the white round plate.

Just in front and a little to the right of that is a set of salt and pepper shakers.

I am sure they are lusterware.

AND they are on my family room shelf with the rest of my lusterware and with a tiny sticky note

on them and in my mother's handwriting it just states, "Old!"

Okay... "old" but I had wondered for quite some time

whose "old" S&P shakers these were.

They were Jean's!

Yayyy!

Mystery solved tonight.

I'm linking to

Visit The Tablescaper

It's a Summer Sunday!

http://thetablescaper.blogspot.com/

Miss Mustard Seed outdoes herself with an amazing give-away!!

Thank you, Kim, from Savy Southern Style! She tipped me off about Miss Mustard Seed's 2000 Follower Give-away. And what a give-away it is!!

Antique Baby Dress

(hanger and drawer not included)

Six Bakelite Knives

Antique Postcards

This isn't all. Not by a long shot!

Visit Miss Mustard Seed

at Miss Mustard Seed in a Box - 2000 Follower Giveaway

http://missmustardseed.blogspot.com/2010/07/miss-mustard-seed-in-box-2000-follower.html

While you're at ...

become of follower of both these

talented ladies!