Some of the Pollema pictures

I took a few pictures with my camera - I will hopefully get a CD of all of the pictures and then share some more with you. Mom and Dad with there 5 hoodlems.

All the grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild!!

Grandma Bonnie with Kaylee - she gave out and fell asleep way at the end!!

Jamie got ahold of the camera and snap-snap-snap!!! Looks like she could be in trouble :)

It could look like one of these will have gone thru the house by the end of this week.

Monday - Jamie runs cross-country in Orange City - back to town and the 8th graders are serving breakfast at school on Tuesday so to school to set up - Mike is mowing

Tuesday - Jamie has volleyball game - my turn to drive and then they want to go to Western home volleyball game.

Wed - we start small groups for CREW (Young Peoples at church) - supper and movie with the high-schoolers at the campground

Thur - Jamie has volleyball in Sioux Center and since in Sx Center better make a Walmart run

Fri - Mike and I are volunteering to help with fund raiser from 1:30-3pm in afternoon for Feed My Starving Children and then Marcus plays football in Spirit Lake.

Saturday - hope to sleep in and then I better maybe do some laundry and look at next weeks schedule :) - Jamie has kick-off for Youth Roc (8th and 9th graders at church) and we have our neighborhood picnic.

Sunday - dinner at Mom and Dad Pollemas and then family picture with all of them - Mom wants to have a picture updated since hers is out-dated and after that I am going to take a NAP!!

Loving life and living it fast lately but all is well and everyone is healthy so much to be thankful for - Have a great week!!

Potato Harvest

Jamie and her father picked all the potatoes on Monday - Labor Day !!!!!

Some very big and odd shaped ones were all around.

Paco wasn't much help but he made sure they got the job done

Mike gave the fork to Jamie three times and each time she stabbed a potato - this time she happen to get two - many laughs

Here are the results - we should be able to eat for quite awhile now

Salsa making with Friends!

Marcus' friends just love our salsa that we make - so all year we have told them that we were going to have a salsa party and they could come and help make it and take some home - so Wed. night we did just that. I got the tomatoes ready before they showed up.

Mike picked potatoes and onions from the garden and made everyone fresh onion rings and potato wedges on the cooker - I also made jalopeno poppers inside (stuffed peppers in oven with bacon around them)

Marcus invited about 15-20 of his friends and I do believe all but 4 showed up - we had a blast.

Marcus, Jamie, and Vanessa helped show everyone how we cut up the peppers and get seeds out.

Fun to see the guys jump right in and help! I think they were having a pretty good time.

A few more helping peel the tomatoes and chop them up!!

Patrick chopping up the onions!

The girl at the end of the table just licked one of the hot peppers - love her face on this one - that's why the milk is out also - when they eat the habinero peppers - milk helps with the sting.

Getting ready to put them in the canner.

We did 22 pints this night and while they were in the canners - we had some basketball going on outside and one of the guys came in a jeep and another one on a cycle - so some were cruising as well - all in all we had a fun night and was neat to see how excited and eager they were to help us - Marcus has a great group of friends and I hope they all know that they are welcome here any time!!!

Everyone left with a pint to share with their families. I hope we started something that we can do again next year!!!!