Good Morning Kids.......

Dad and I are on the afternoon shift this week. That means we have a little time to get a couple of things done around the apartment before we head to the temple usually about 1:15 p.m.

I woke up this morning in the mood for a pot of soup. The weather here the last few days indicates to us that summer is coming to a close and fall may be around the corner!! Chilly temps......60's during the day and 50's at night. Great

sleeping weather!! If it could only stay like this year round we would be in heaven!!

At any rate.......the top picture shows a pot of white beans I have cooking (the frying pan in the back shows the pan I fry bacon in so I could add it to the soup). The bread is banana nut bread ready for the oven.

AND......the end result......a pot of white bean soup that turned out really, really good and a nicely baked loaf of banana nut bread!! Don't know that I will be able to make my chocolate chip cookies over here because of the different ingredients they have, but at least I can make banana nut bread!! We actually saw a small bag of american chocolate chips this week at the grocery store. They wanted 5 euro 45 for the bag......that would be about $8.00 for a small bag of chocolate chips!! And they were 'clumped' together as if they had been on a boat, melted some and stuck together like ONE BIG chocolate chip!!

Now we are ready to go to work at the temple in a couple of hours having accomplished much today. Even added some posts on our blog if you want to check it out!!

Love, Mom (and Dad helping out at the asuntola desk with the Estonians here)