Quick update

Life is good in the Keith household - we serve a mighty God! We are about to take our first trip of the year: Snowboarding 2010

Luke's pelvic injury from the car accident has caused serious balance problems, but he is such a trooper and is determined to get back into the swing of life. Have I mentioned that I admire this man?

Meanwhile, I have recently started a project. Operation: Stop monotonous dinners. I am blogging my way through new recipes to fight my usual urge to do the easy way out (ie Asian food). I want to be savvy in a menagerie of styles and master my kitchen! Yeah, I know..."oh Faith". Thats why I entitled my project blog "Oh Faith, what are you up to now" haha. silly me.

Check it out, I've tried some fun recipes already thefaithkeith.wordpress.com

Keith Workshop

This year we decided to make our gifts. We started out with grand plans, but as soon as we started the "smallest" project, we realized our scheme was far beyond "over ambition".

Turns out we were only able to make small somethings for everyone.

The Keith Christmas was tonight, so this post only exposes already unwrapped gifts.

For each couple (Mom and Dad, Mel and Bill, Joelle and Jared+baby judah) we made pajama pants. The guys got "hobo" pants, and the girls all received monkey pants. They were a blast. Pajama pants supposedly are extremely easy and low cost. But we managed to make them more expensive than you can buy them AND we spent about 1.2 hours per pant! HA!

The 2nd part of the gift was a menagerie of fine chocolate barks that we made in our home kitchen - what fun! We made dark chocolate almond joy bark, white chocolate peppermint bark, mint chocolate bark and milk chocolate smore's bark. Our whole house smelled of warm chocolates and creamy vanilla from the candle on our bar.

The whole experience was awesome - it was a great way for us to spend a lot of time together and it was amazing working on projects together.

For your viewing pleasure, here are a few pics of the disaster, nay, the fun!