Family

We are having another busy weekend, but aren't they all.  My nephew and his wife and little daughter are here this weekend.  We always enjoy having them visit, and my children along with the rest of us love playing games with them.  They always bring some new ones to teach us and some of them are way over my head. :)  At least with the number of hours of sleep that I usually get.

Thursday we did lots of baking for the weekend.  (Garlic bread and cake for church,  and food for entertaining.  We also did some deep cleaning.

Friday was finally sunny, but windy and rather chilly.  My nephew and his family stopped by in the afternoon and played a game.  Kent came home from work a little early and then we tried our skill at the new game we had learned.  (Forbidden Island)

Satruday we spent all morning cooking and baking cinnamon rolls for our May Baskets.  We love our May basket tradition.  Even though it falls on Sunday this year, we are still going to go ahead and deliver our baskets.  In the afternoon we went to a local farm that is designed to operate like the Joel Salatin farm.  He had some sheep, chickens, calfs and a rather intimidating llama.  Then my nephew and his family, along with my parents came over for supper, and of course a few more games. :)  We had our favorite meal of burritios, with homemade tortillas, guacamole, hummus, sauted onions, sour cream, lettuce, homemade salsa, seasoned meat and jalopenos.  Yum, Yum!  Of course we had some baked goods from my sweet little bakers.  Katelyn loves to bake and does so daily if I let her.  She gets up at around 6:30 does her chores, school and by late morning she is asking what she can bake for breakfast the next day.  She is heaven sent!!!!!!  She made us some wonderful chocolate chip cookies and Rachel made some whoopie pies.  They turned out great!

I so enjoy spending time with my family.  Even though we spent much of the day in the kitchen, I can honestly say it was fun.  We were all out there working toghether.  Even Jacob helped us out making the tortillas, start to finish.