Tomatoes: owner held off telling parents of business.

Sometimes what you really want to do lingers in your mind like a splinter, and the only way to remove is through a leap of faith.

And that's just what Kristie Ledbetter did when she and her husband, sunk almost all of their savings, more than $70,000, into Smashed Tomatoes, an Italian restaurant at the corner of Wall and Colby streets.

For years, the 31-year-old Ledbetter had been working as a systems analyst for the Oracle Corp. Her husband, Aaron, was, and remains a software engineer for 2 Wire, a DSL provider. To a tee they fit the DINK (duel income no ki