Chris and Carolyne and family

Finally, I got organized enough to have my employers, Chris and Carolyne and their two little ones, Mira Belle and Tibo over for dinner. Also, I invited Chelsea, Chris's neice to come along as well. She is in her second year at KSA doing the jewellery course. She brought along some of her most interesting pieces to show, including a very creative spoon entwined in leaves and flowers,and a gorgeous ring
that showed off her skills at stone setting. We are all proud of her high standards.

Nice background of construction, but I thought a family photo was in order!
Carolyne, Chris, Chris's neice, Chelsea, then Tibo and Mira Belle ( kind of hiding behind Tibo)

Just sitting down to dinner...Chris, Tibo and Chelsea

Our starter was a shrimp and crab cocktail for something fancy pancy, foloowed by the squash puree soup in the Whitewater cookbook... waasn't my fav, so I'll stick to my own recipe next time. Emil BBQ'd his rainbow trout steaks.. and they were perfect... so that is almost high heat, laid out on a piece of tinfoil for 22 minutes without looking in the BBQ.
Everyone enjoyed the variety of pyrahi ( get that spelling right) that Lynn so wonderfully helped me make
,and the broccoli/artichoke casserole...a tasty idea for veggies enough to feed a crowd. I still made a dish of carrots and snap peas and that all pretty much was it! At the end we still had room for apple pie and icecream!

I wanted to show them how to play train, so we didn't linger over dinner as much as we normally do.

Little Mira Belle was the grand winner, tho you can see that Tibo is mastering a few skills here, himself!
All in all, it was a pleasant evening.Thank-you,extended family, for joining us for dinner!

"The Creator"