The Coast

Andrew and Matt had fun in the ocean. I yelled for Andrew to get out of the water because he didn't have dry clothes to change into. He didn't hear me yelling like a fishwife, but he heard the whistle of his dad.

Almond Citrus Muffins

Almond Citrus Muffins~ these are the muffins we had at the Peerless Hotel for breakfast in Ashland, OR this week when we went to visit Grandpa Bob.
I am a little slow getting this to you. Like I said, you can replace the Almond extract and orange zest with most anything like 1 cup of blue berries or the zest of one lemon and a tablespoon of poppy seeds...

INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1/3 cup whole milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla
1 Tablespoon Almond extract
The zest from one medium orange

DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease muffin cups
or line with muffin liners.
2. Combine 1 1/2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt and baking powder.
Place vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup; add the egg and enough
milk to fill the cup. Add the vanilla, almond extract and orange zest
to the bowl. Mix this with flour mixture.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven.

Sea Hag

We went to the coast, Depot Bay and did some whale watching. We bought salt water taffy, found shells on the beach and took pictures of the natives. We ate lunch for Bruce's birthday at Mo's and had delicious clam chowder. The sea hag is the one in the middle, Ben.

OMSI

We went to OMSI and they had a Leonardo Da Vinci display. They showed a lot of inventions, art, military, music and scientific ideas he had. The hands on displays for children were mirror image writing, designing your own city, and rebuilding a bridge. We got a great copy of the Mama Lisa.

Luke in Columbia

The pictures are from the baptism and the conference. The one with me and my companion, and the short missionary in between is a three generation photo. Me, my trainer and my trainers trainer. The other is of our entire zone, and then the picture of the baptism. The black man is from Nigeria and only speaks English, I got to translate for him at the baptism. His friends are interested in the gospel and they don´t speak Spanish either, so I could end up teaching in English!

Images of Emily

They put a picture of my "fabric and buttons creation" in The Observer. If you go to www.lagrandeobserver.com you can read the article. I didn't see the pictures. There were five pictures in the printed article. The article is called "Images of Emily", March 14, 2009.

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