Saturday, August 25, 2007

FRIDAY

Yesterday was busy.

Produce Co-op - Everyone helps....
Even Stacia - though none of us are sure why she thought we NEEDED the remote car????
What is THIS?
After co-op we peeled 25 lbs of potatoes. We were having company (NO THEY DON'T EAT THAT MUCH) and I wanted to make garlic mashed potatoes. I thought I would make a bunch and freeze the rest. I had just finished THAT when it was time to run. (Note, Nolan took the photo and MOM is the only one who cooperated - guess I KNOW what it's like to have uncooperative subjects ::snort::).
We had a hail and farewell. Two of our chapel staff are deploying. Two are just moving in. Our chaplain candidate will be heading back to Maryland on Tuesday. Always changes at a military chapel.

I had just enough time back at home to get dinner ready. We had a great time with Ch. C and family. They have six children - we had six at home. They had some rousing fun on the trampoline...Cy was the "big man" and had fun with them - until he got hurt. Jamin was at work. Kimberly was also here (our chaplain candidate). Deja, Arielle totally held her own in the midst of the rowdiness.....LOL Once again baby girls, BOYS, and her. LOL

We ended the night watching Mork and Mindy from Netflix and Hogan's Heroes.

10 comments:

Lisa in Jax said...

Sounds like an excellent day! I wish I lived close enough for your produce co-op.LOL

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Lisa - I wish you lived close for lots of reasons....we could do the little activity co-op, the produce co-op would be good, park days....we may yet get an assignment in FL.

Debbie said...

Great day. Always love the photos of the kids.

Anonymous said...

Nolan:

You did real good taking that picture.

See you in a few months.

love/prayers

Anonymous said...

Great to have potato peeling assistance!

It's great to have some garlic mashed potatoes in the freezer, isn't it? But have you figured out a way to stop it sticking to the pan when you reheat? We use glass pans and we haven't.

Jodi said...

Me too for your produce co-op! Of course I'd love to hang out with you gals and Hayley would love Arielle and Alison since she too is usualy always surrounded by boys. Keeping up but definitely surrounded. There are even more boys, by far, that we see at tha lake. We figure it must be something in the water around here, always more boys.

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Dorothy - I've never had trouble with it sticking. I freeze it in Ziploc bags. I spray the pan with olive oil before I add the potatoes and they've been fine. Sorry not to have a sure fire trick.

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Jodi - maybe a big lake, neighborhood in heaven? LOL

Deja said...

LOL about Arielle. We had the C kids over last night so S & S could have a date night before he deployed and we left for vacation. I told Emma that poor Arielle was home again with a TON of boys. The C boys commented that she looked pretty bored ;-) So Emma was home last night with all the boys...tell Arielle that Emma understands.

Cynthia said...

Some friends and I are thinking about doing our own dinners-served co-op.. we're going to the place one more time, tomorrow, but we're planning our own for Nov... as if I need one more thing to do (LOL)! I do miss the produce co-op that I used to have here a long time ago.