Weekend events

We have had quite the busy social weekend - especially considering that we are more into the spending time together mode than going out. After church we had lunch at Andy's - he is an English guy, engaged to Jana who is Brazillian (wedding June 2005) and they just brought a new town house. All the usual crowd was there and we took some baked beans (no, not like NZ Watties in a tin - beans, vege sausage, brown sugar, worcetershire sauce etc etc) which were obviously quite yummy as they all got eater; corn bread and the famous potato/sour cream/cheese dish. We had dinner on Saturday night at Papa Vinos (Italian) with Anna and her sister Nadia who are going to visit Australia and NZ in December/January and so we spent the evening planning their itinerary for them. On Sunday we were up bright and early for breakfast with Tami and Steve to celebrate their news that they are having a baby at the end of May after being married for 18 years (we think this is likely related to the great holiday we all had in Maui in early September!!!). We spent a couple of hours in one of our favourite stores 'Home Depot' and spent not an insignificant amount of money on home items like screen doors (which are also needed to keep snow out as well as mosquitoes) etc. Then Shelly and Mark came for dinner - that was our first foray into entertaining which seemed to be a success! We continued the italian theme with antipasto and bruschetta, lasangna, a sour cream/mushroom/chicken dish (with both real and vege chicken options!) and individual lemon tarts made with lemon honey (lemon curd) that Victoria made on Friday.