As promised, here’s the proof…my family tree is full of nuts!!!
Crazy Richard (my father)
This is my dad – the owner of the Krema Products Company. Though he hates having his picture taken, he is a smart business man, and a very hard worker. About 20 years ago he decided he wanted to work for himself, so he found Krema Peanut Butter – a fabulous all-natural product with a great history and a special roasting and grinding process. The PB was awesome but the company itself was in serious need of a business savvy mind 
A few succesful years went by and he then decided to buy Crazy Richard’s Peanut Butter and began filling the jars with his tried and true Krema PB – it was a huge sucess! The best part of the story is that my dad’s name really is Richard! HA! And he really is crazy…well, about a few things at least; Buckeye Football, golf, chocolate & PB, and his girls! Especially this one…
Melissa the Fruitcake Sister (my mother)
My mom is so awesome. She is hilarious and crazy and super fun – and she is going to kill me for posting this photo! But its just so her, smiling and laughing and acting silly My mom has worked along side of my dad since I can really remember. A few years after the PB business was growing steadily, my parents purchased a mail-order business called Grandma’s Fruitcakes. Mom runs the fruitcake business and has grown so large they had to build a new office (across the street from the old building) complete with a beautiful store, a large office, and an even larger warehouse just so she had more room to work harder! Like I said, she’s a nut! But she might be tied for nuttiest in my family with this awesome lady…
Nanette the Fruitcake Sister (my aunt)
No they are not twins, but yes they are real sisters! When Nanette joined this family nut business my mom and her decided to become the “Fruitcake Sisters” and I’m not exactly sure why. But its worked out amazingly well for them! They are quite famous in our town of Dublin, Ohio. Which was a little hard to swallow for my sister and I who were in Middle School at the time and the fruitcake business just about killed us with embarrassment! Who wants to say their mom is a fruitcake?? Well, they aren’t the fruitcakes (which in fact are quite tasty 
) they are just the “Fruitcake Sisters” which means they dress up for all kinds of local events and make it in the news a bunch and are in a big parade and they now have their own store – “The Sister’s Sweet Shoppe”- which is absolutely gorgeous and full of incredible gourmet nuts and chocolates and candies. Nanette is the queen of the shop, treating every customer as her best friend! She couldn’t be sweeter….or nuttier!
Grandma & The Fruitcake Sisters! (my aunt Nanette, my grandma and my mom)
aren’t they awesome? i told ya. but still, totally nuts.
Danny the Warehouse Nut (my cousin)
Now over in the warehouse is this nut, Danny, who actually married into this nutty family! (Amazingly enough ) Danny is Nanette’s son-in-law and he never, ever stops joking. Never. Ever. It drives my mom and my aunt Nanette crazy! HA! Though he is a great warehouse manager – in charge of tons of things like managing all of the packaging and shipping and deliveries in the warehouse – he still somehow finds time to crack jokes at the Fruitcake Sisters! (Didn’t I say we were a little nuts though??) Now he’s not the only nutty offspring to work at “The Office,” I think all of my cousin’s, my sister, myself, my husband, and even my cousins’ spouses and kids have all worked at “The Office” at some point or another! Its just part of being in this crazy family…
Nutty Family Workers
(Nanette with two of her grandsons helping her out in “The Sister’s Sweet Shoppe”)
The Little Peanuts (my daughters)
Now these cutie peanuts aren’t full-time employees but they are Crazy Richard’s only grandkids! So I thought that deserved a little mention on this post…and since they are MY girls and this is not MY blog after all These two could rival my mom and my aunt Nanette for nuttiest in the family! These girls are crazy! And they sure love their Crazy Richard’s PB sammys! Just today we had Toasted PB & Jelly sammys since its so freezing cold outside
No Nuts, Peanuts Please (my husband)
Most likely I will be in big trouble for posting this photo, but my husband is so cute and he makes the best crazy faces for cameras! He is a total goof-ball and I love every second of it! We met in college and have been married for five and a half years. Probably the nuttiest thing about my fun husband is that he married into the nut family and he is actually highly ALLERGIC TO NUTS! HA! Tell me that isn’t the craziest thing you’ve read all day? Poor guy. Here my family sells amazing, high-quality gourmet nuts and candies with nuts and chocolate covered nuts and fruitcakes with nuts and he can’t try a single bite! After about an hour of just being inside the warehouse at “The Office” his throat actually starts to scratch and swell up! But, his saving grace is that he in NOT ALLERGIC TO PEANUT BUTTER! Ha again! This is because my wonderful husband is only allergic to NUTS – not legumes. And as we all know (or didn’t know) that peanuts aren’t really nuts – they are legumes! (That’s a post for another day
So, are you convinced that my family is full of nuts yet? Just in case you were still doubting, here’s a picture of my youngest daughter pouting on a step stool today.
See, even a two-year old knows that in our family,
“We’re Totally Nuts!!”
Stay Nutty Folks!
♥ Kimberly
