On Thursday Tandy and Kevin took the kids to a local indoor play area. We got some blessed rain finally. Nothing smells better than the first rain after a long long dry period! And such a relief it was to have the house a wee bit cooler. We never get a whole lot of rain here so it was a treat.
On Friday Kevin worked downstairs all day and Tandy took Parker right around Thetis Lake. It takes about three hours and Parker comes back all worn out and so happy. She has done that three times times now with him and he is in doggy heaven!
April, Myles and Jess arrived early evening. So good to see them. I truly miss having April downstairs. We always have had such good talks. We still do on the phone though. We all sat outside on the deck visiting and catching up.
Saturday was a cooking day. AND whilst I was prepping and cooking, Tandy completely cleaned the kitchen and living room. She got a bucket of water and cleaned areas I didn't even know existed. You have no idea how grateful I am and how it so pointed out how useless I am in my own house. I have never ever been a good cleaner. And I'm not sure if its because I can't or just don't.
Myles, bless him got the vacuum and completely vacuumed the entire house. So much help.
I decided to try a new recipe. Now, I am not one to go into detail about recipes but this one was so amazingly delicious that every single person at the dinner table, all twelve, even the kids went nuts over it. I found it on allrecipes.com…my fave recipe site.
It was crock pot cream corn. The recipe called for four! 16 0z bags of frozen corn. Four! And it called for three 8 oz blocks of cream cheese, a cup of butter and some milk. So I chopped up the butter and cheese, mixed it up and put it all in the crock pot and let her rip. Oh yeah…it also called for a half a cup of sugar…so this is not a daily vegetable dish to say the least. But holy cow! it was unbelievable. And there was lots, but not as much left over as I thought there would be! I also made a gorgeous bone in rib roast, salmon, mashed spuds, the recipe that tastes like baked potato, the only mashed spuds I ever make now. And gravy and brussels sprouts. I also put a bowl of wedge lettuce pieces and made (from a recipe) the most delicious poppy seed salad dressing. For dessert I made a giant banana trifle. I made lots of salmon so that I can make those salmon burgers with the potato chips tonight.
So now today Kevin and all have headed downtown to do all those awesome touristy things one does in Victoria with kids. I have an extraordinarily clean house, so, very little to do. April, Myles and Jess went to Austin's last night and didn't get home until about five in the morning! Man I would be dead if I did that. But it is now eleven in the morning and no sign of any of them! Even Spod is still in bed. Now I am going to go and make potato salad.
One thing that is happening today that I am not entirely ready for is Aryn and Bradley coming and we need to sit down, finalize kitchen plans and start executing the purchasing. I also need to go over the plans we have for the Nanaimo house we just took back. So a busy day ahead! TTYL
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| ON THE FERRY….KEVIN AND TANDY PLAYING GUITAR HERO IN THE ARCADE…WHO ARE THE KIDS HERE ANYWAY?? |
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| EATING A MUFFIN IN THE CORNER OF SUPERSTORE PARKING LOT…NOT IN THE CAR! |
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| AFTER EATING AS MANY SAMPLES AS POSSIBLE IN COSTCO…THEY STARTED DRINKING AS MUCH POP AS POSSIBLE TOO |
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| SHOPPING WITH GMA |
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| ELISE WATCHING AND LEARNING |
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| A LITTLE GPA TIME…THE PILLOW IS BLOCKING THE FAN BLOWING... |
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| WE HAVE THE PERFECT BACKYARD TO PLAY BRIDGE |
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| AUSTIN, EMILY'S BOYFRIEND (EMILY WASN'T HERE THIS WEEKEND) AND HIS VISITING PARENTS CAME FOR DINNER…SUCH WONDERFUL FUN PEOPLE |
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| ELISE HELPING HERSELF TO A GIANT BEEF RIB BONE |
You have such a wonderful family....you are so lucky!
ReplyDeleteI am coming over to just eat! ok, maybe have a visit,too
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