Spicey Thai Pizza and Names

This pizza went over well when served on the Sunday movie night.

• roll out dough or buy premade crusts.
• Sauce = spicy thai peanut sauce (or maybe peanut satay sauce, it all has different names for different brands).
• Cover with mozzarella cheese.
• toppings: fresh cilantro, grated carrot, caramelized onion and precooked chicken breast pieces.
• Bake in the oven at 400F till cheese is melted.

Finally, here is an interesting webpage on names. You can type a name in to view it in more detail.

Lindsay and Dominic

Look at the blond hair on this little guy!

Dominic Charles Marshall

Here are some pictures of the new baby boy born December 27, 2007 at 9lbs 4 ozs and 21" long.

Christmas @ 2368 Slo-Pitch Road, 2007

Boxing Day at the farm

Carly and I walked to the back of our farm and saw this hawk flying around. He just kept circling and shrieking at us.
Bert received a new camera for Christmas and we took this picture of Age's horses across our creek with the new long lens.

Jamie-Lynn and i were recently down in Florida enjoying a break from the snow. Pictured here, i was picking out a new purse for Jamie-Lynn for Christmas. Did i mention how nice it was to see the sun again?

We always cut small branches to put around our Christmas stable and that's what I am doing on this picture.

Here is Bert cutting our tree at the back of our farm. Good thing we did it yesterday because we are having a major snowstorm right now.

I'll be home for Christmas

Hello everyone,

There's been no posts for a while so I thought I would put up some pictures of when I was hiking this past weekend. There's no snow in Vancouver but when you go up, there's lots. We went hiking up to Brew Hut and stayed overnight.

Here we are on one of our many lunch stops on the way up to the hut.



Here is Brew Hut, set up in a really windy spot so that snow doesn't accumulate because previous huts were always destroyed or moved by the huge amounts of snow. I like how the top floor window has a handle on it so you can dig down to the hut when its buried and go through the upstairs.

Here's a beautiful shot at sunset looking back towards Black tusk (the tooth like thing). Its a really popular hiking destination and I think the very first post on this blog was back before I hurt my knee and had hiked (with some of the same people) to Black Tusk and had climbed it. Its a straightforward hike, just some scrambling at the end but it looks very dramatic doesn't it. If you're skiing at Whistler you see the tusk edge on.

Some news and some pics!

Hi all!! Just though I'd let you know that I'll be coming home for christmas this year!! And this time mom and I will be down to visit everyone. I can't wait to see you all, miss you so much, and it's definitely time for a white (or at least cold) christmas. It's been fantastic having Teegs and Ains here in Aussie, but unfortunately I don't ave any pics of them! Guess I should get snapping. See you all soon!

Love ~Sarah~

At the top of a Fig tree(40 meters above ground) Mt Tamborine, near Brisbane Sept 07

Sunset on Fraser Island Feb 07

Rick and Jamie-Lynn's wedding

Rick and Jamie-Lynn Huitema
We arrived at the Kinkora Hall for the 8 p.m. wedding ceremony and reception.
Some people have to "ham it up" for the camera and here is the result!
And here are the most enthusiastic dancers at the party!

LasVegas Laser show

This is from my trip to Las Vegas, a laser show at the Wynn Hotel as we enjoyed a drink.

Bumper crop

It's been a long hot summer and our bees have been busy. It seems that the hot weather is best for them. We had to make up a sign to help us spread the word about the good crop. We have a total of 900 pounds of honey from five hives.

Visitors from Holland

Monique and Shawn are giving our cousins Fokke and Tineke from Holland a ride with Age's horse and carriage.

Just can't seem to sell those last flowers - there's even a baby to attract customers
Raiding the berry patch - mmm - red currants
A campfire can be mesmerizing - especially for kids

Camperama 2007 - the night campfire

As seen during Camparama

The station is in a low Earth orbit and can be seen from earth with the naked eye: its altitude varies from 319.6 km to 346.9 km above the surface of the Earth (approximately 199 miles to 215 miles). It travels at an average speed of 27,744 km (17,240 miles) per hour, completing 15.7 orbits per day.

Easy living

It was a good afternoon for a nap with a pup, especially if your name is Samantha.

Just one relaxing moment after another.

Huitema Camperama at "The Chalet by the Pond".

Another year - another good time, good eats, good drinks, good company, good discussion and good fun. August 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2007.

What a great view during the carriage ride.

Horse and carriage at Camparama 2007

Shawn and Monique brought Age's horse and carriage to camparama and took several people for rides.

Camparama 2007

Marijke washing her feet in the flower arrangement.

another try

here goes

I'm like a dinosaur trying to enter the modern world. I just got a digital camera (a Canon powershot) and am experimenting with it and thought I would try to post a picture but then realized the whole blogger has changed - so we'll see if this posts properly. Carly, just a quick question - I seem to have created a separate blog (Marijke's blog) at some time in 2006 - can I delete it?
And there's some really great pictures on the blog - it's good to keep up with what's going on at the home farms - next I may try some pictures of my house and dogs and whatever - if this works.
(Okay I downloaded a picture but I don't think it worked - I checked the preview and there was no picture but I'll 'publish post' anyhow)

Motorcycle Ride

On the long weekend I went for a motorcycle ride with another member in my department Chris and his girlfriend Suzanne. We went riding up part of Mount Baker in the states. Here is a picture of Carly and Suzanne in front of the mountain:

And here's a picture of the bikes. Mine is the one on the right.


It was a great ride up a twisty road and at the top there was even snow on the ground on the roadside. You can see from the pictures there is still a whole lot of mountain above us. There were a lot of motorcycles doing the same trip and no wonder, it was a great ride.

New foal

Viola and her foal in front of Age's horse barn. She was born on Saturday morning.









Monique and Bert put Viola in the barn and then got the foal used to some handling. Viola was in the barn and was not impressed being away from her foal.














Viola's two other daughters are just dying to be all together, but it is a bit too soon for that.










It has been quite dry around here and Bert decided to water our garden.

Birthday Party!

What's a birthday without cake...?

Anyone care for a swim??

Cooper & Hudson @ Beppe and Opa's House

Beppe & Opa looked after the boys for a day. It is a good thing little kiddies are raised by relatively young parents. We were pooped out by the end of the day.

Stef