Pi Day!!!

We had our 7th (or 8th?) Annual Pi Day this year. March 14 was a Saturday and Marian and I ran our 10k that morning. That means I planned ahead with all the pies. I baked and froze the pies that freeze well, and scheduled out the rest of the pies to maximize the pie making. I had all my pies done by Thursday.... and then the girls decided we needed some more. 

This is the Line Up.  18 varieties, and 31 pies were made.  6 of those pies were delivered elsewhere, which left 25 to be enjoyed at Pi Day.

Marian thought this pie was necessary, so it was a last minute edition.

It came out nice!!  And delicious.

Oreo, the Foster Pup agreed that Callie needed to make a pecan pie and he was glad she did.

Saturday afternoon, the kitchen counter had pies on it.

And there were pies on the table in the dining room.  Rylee made name crds for all the pies.

Pulling the last of my meat pies out of the oven.

We debuted this pie for the first time this year.  Of course everyone wanted to try the pie called "Cock-a-Leekie"!  It was well received and there were no leftovers!

Much pie was consumed, but we had SO MUCH pie, that we did have leftovers. We had a lot more of our neighbors than we have in the past.  But we did go drop off invited to each house on our street.  Despite the caution to avoid large gatherings, we had a good turnout.  The weather was blustery, but people could still go outside to ease the congestion in the house. 

And apparently Delaney now has a tradition of pie-ing someone in the face on Pi Day. Zach was her willing victim this year.

I did make some gluten-free mini oreo caramel pies after Pi Day and delivered them to my gluten-free friend.  And I did make my favorite Double Dark chocolate pie that I don't want to share, but I shared it with my friend Lauren who came to town for the weekend after. So, a record number of pies this year!  I do not think we need to keep topping that!!

St Patrick's Day 10k Race Report

 Kadena holds a St Patrick's Race in Mach.  They do a 5k, 10k and half marathon. Marian and I signed up to do the 10k.  It was held on March 14.... Pie Day!

I was thrilled to pick up my race packet and discover my number was 314!!  How appropriate for Pi Day!  Delaney added the pi symbol for me.

It was a gross and rainy morning.  I would not normally run in that sort of weather- I hate having squishy, wet shoes!  But we had a race, so off we went.  This is our pre-race selfie as we huddled under the trees. 

Official race photographer took this and I swiped it from the FB page.  

The race was awesome for the first half.... because it was pretty much 3 miles of downhill.  That really really stunk when we turned around and had to then run back up the hills.  It was pretty brutal.  But we did not walk and we finished, and it was a good race.  Marian finished about 5-10 seconds faster than me because she ha more sprint left at the end!

We had hoped to be faster, but those awful hills killed us.  Still happy with the time though!

My lovely ladies!

Rylee loves macarons.  The real ones, made with whipped egg whites.  She likes them enough that she found a recipe and now makes them on occasion.  This time she did them all on her own. They were not as fluffy as they should have been, but taste-wise, they were fine.

The High School had a Prom Dress event, where a ton of brand new prom dresses were donated for the kids.  Each girl with a student ID card could come select one dress to take home. I volunteered to help at the event and the girls came with me.

Callie Was so fun!  She had a marvelous time trying on some pretty wild dresses. And some lovely ones as well. I was suppose to be a helper, so I didn't get to take pictures of all their shenanigans. 

Callie and Marian did not find anything they liked.  Delaney liked this dress, so Callie used her free dress pass to get this one for Delaney.

Marian wanted to make something.  She found some recipes and we tried out this no bake Chocolate Cheesecake.

 It was pronounced delicious.

We did blue and purple temp dye on Delaney and Rylee's hair.

Tough to see while it is wet.  And Delaney's hair really does not hold it.

Rylee's hair does!  The blue comes out nice and vibrant, but the purple does not.

Last snuggles with Levi.

Delaney found a face mask pattern and spent a day making a bunch of face masks.  I was impressed- she never follows pattern directions, but she did for this! They came out really cute.

This is what happens when Church is Cancelled indefinitely for Coronados Virus and you have Home Church.

Sometimes things get a little out of control!

Goodbye Levi!

Transporting a dog back from Okinawa is not for the fain of heart. Nor is it for the light of pocket!  With our impending move, we came up with a complicated plan to get Levi back in the least stressful way. And it was still plenty stressful!

Dan had a conference in San Diego to go to.  So he bought his tickets and added Levi onto them.  Then discovered his plane had downsized and could not take pets.  He scrambled and 72 hours before, was able to have reservations.  Whew!  He had a one way ticket from Okinawa to Osaka on ANA, Cost: $60 for the dog.  Then he had a one way ticket to fly JAL from Osaka to LAX.  Cost for the dog: $400.  That was about double what it would have been with his original China Airlines flight, but whatever.  He was going!!  This is the photo of Levi chillin' at the Quarantine office in Hana.  You have to go there 24 hours before your flight leaves to make sure you have all your paperwork.  We did.

Monday, March 9, Levi was off to the USA!  Here's my good boy, ready for his flight to Osaka.

This is how he came out at LAX!  He was the goodest good boy and did just fine.  Hopefully this is his last flight ever!  He is off to spend a few months with the grandparents until we can move back and pick him up.

One of these days I will say NO..... but Today is not that day

Callie likes to foster dogs.  Dan and Marian do not enjoy this.  Delaney and Rylee sway their opinion based on the weather. We had told Callie no more fosters till after January.  But January was a bad time and we pushed her off longer.  With Levi leaving, we agreed that she could foster once he was gone.

Well, the day before Levi flew out, our foster organization had a hoarding situation with 20 dogs needing homes.   I said that we could take one if they needed us to.  They needed us to.  With fingers crossed, we went out to pick up a dog.  On FB they had referred to the dog as Oreo.  When we got there to pick him up, they called him Cheese.  Neither name is good, but we don't have anything better to call him, so he is kind of nameless right now.

But this is the sweet boy. 

He is solidly medium sized. I think he is around 6 months, but he hasn't been to the vet yet to know anything about him. 

He is a snuggly boy. 

And he does the funniest things with his paws. 

So far he has been great- no accidents in the house, no chewing stuff.  He occasionally howls when he is sad and lonely (he went from living with 19 dogs to zero!), and will pull stuff out of the trash, but he's a good boy.

His white ear is always up, and his black ear folds over.