Looks like everyone's been pretty busy lately judging by the number of crickets chriping on my blog list.
I think it's time to break the silence and update you all on what I've been up to these last several days!
The berry season has finally quieted down round these here parts. The frenzy of strawberry jam, strawberry bread, strawberry ice cream, raspberry jam and raspberry sorbet has now passed and we have a freezer chock full of goodies to prove it! 
Since I clearly couldn't get enough of the kitchen with all the berry love, my friend Megan came over for a bakefest! I made cookies and she made this lovely lemon cake.
Fast forward to last weekend when a dear friend of mine, Erin, came in for a much anticipated visit! She was doing her "West Coast Tour 2007" which included a stay at the Duchek Inn West West. I had so much fun hanging out with her! At one point, we were sitting at the kitchen table playing around on our respective laptops waiting for the Challah bread to rise, and I had this sense of overwhelming familiarity - it felt like no time had passed and we were still roommates in our college apt.
We had a fun weekend touring Seattle and Woodinville. Of course we made our way to the Farmer's Market on Pike Place because no visit to Seattle would be complete without it!
The weekend passed far too quickly and I found myself bidding her a fond farewell all too soon at SeaTac airport on Monday. I hope she comes back to visit again soon!!
Our 4th of July was spent with my friend Heather, her boyfriend Tamir and some friends of theirs. We hung out at their place where our gracious hosts plied us with so much wonderful food and drink! We had a great time and managed to stuff ourselves silly. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures to share as I foolishly left my camera in the car. Doh! Brian and I did make it to watch Bellevue's firework's display, but it wasn't too spectacular. I tell ya - nothing compares to Rolling Meadow's fireworks show.
Fast forwarding yet again to this weekend found us fairly low key. We spent Friday night with Rob and Kristi getting our fill of Buffy and Angel. Saturday was our first annual community picnic. I made my lemon bars and am happy to report they were a success! Brian was the grill master and even brought his grill down to the picnic. So much good food!! That evening we went out to dinner to Seattle's version of the Brazilian Steakhouse with Brian's friend Colin and his girlfriend Ami. Sunday will be fairly quiet - we need to get cracking on our "financial homework" for our next planner meeting.
Finally I leave you with the suggestion to check out Geni.com. This is a way cool interactive website for charting your family tree. Kim turned me on to it and lemme warn you - it is HIGHLY addictive!!!
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