Where has Rhonda been? long and rambling post here to catch up

Just a little busy.

baby Andie stayed with us for 10 days while her parents went to Sturgis. 

My parents came and stayed with us too so they could have some extended time with their great grands.

One of my brothers visited 2 different days and brought his girlfriend.

My other brother came too,  he stayed 2 days and brought his dog.  

Our children all came over too as much as they could.  

It was lots of fun but I was busy with meals for everyone and Baby Andie did not sleep quite as good here as she does at home.  

 

The grands are all doing great!
Little Andie is 5 months and looks big and is strong for her age.  
She certainly does not look like a premmie anymore.

Braeden just had his 1 month birthday and has grown from about 7 pounds to almost 10 pounds.  
I am very thankful for these 4 healthy, thriving and sweet children.  

National Smores Day 

It was National Smores Day last week so John and Nina brought the ingredients and prepared Smores Cookies that day.  They are a Pinterest recipe (of course!)  have a graham cracker crust that bakes and is topped with a marshmallow and chocolate.  

 They are delicious! 

 But a little hard to remove from the pan.  Next time,  I think they will use paper cup liners in the mini cupcake pans.  

The Heat!  

It has been another HOT record breaking summer.  

We had a stretch of about 7 days with temps over 110 -there were lots of fires in our state,  

one very bad one was just 1.5 miles from our home

We still need rain but are thankful the weather is cooler for now.

You may of seen this photo taken in my town,  

saying that it is so hot here, 

that the streetlights are melting.

Well,  it has been really hot but not that hot.

This streetlight melted because it was right beside a dumpster that caught fire,

 not because of the hot weather.

Funny "journalists" , huh?

Feeding everyone

It was too hot to turn on the oven so I used my crockpots most evenings for supper.

I have a 3 quart and a 5 quart crockpot. 

I made baked potatoes in one of them twice.

One meal was salsa chicken.

Another meal was a beef roast.

Also beef stroganoff type dish served on rice.

The favorite meal of all was a beef roast seasoned with taco seasoning and Rotel, cooked till very tender and  shredded in the small crockpot with refried beans cooked in the bigger crockpot.  

Another meal was reheated ribs from the freezer - son Bobby was a barbecue contest a few months ago and he prepared several trial runs of brisket and ribs - so it was nice to have that meat cooked and ready to heat during a busy time.  

  

Nap Time 

Granddaughter Elizabeth napping at our house.

The quilt she is covered up with is the last piece of patchwork my grandmother made,  I think Grandma was about 95 when she hand pieced it,   her eyes just got too bad for her see to do anymore handwork.

Grandma gave it to me and I quilted it.  It is just about the right size for a toddler bed.  

I think it is really sweet that Elizabeth is using a quilt from her great great grandmother.  

If you got this far,  

I will be back this evening to answer comments

It was really fun to see so many comments last week even though I did not have time to answer them then.