I had a great birthday. Plain as that.

A good Friend of mine text me first thing to tell me happy birthday. Later on that day I received some flowers from her via FED EX!!!! OVERNIGHT!

They are so nice. So fresh!

Look....

The greatest thing about these is that she had it figured out all along.

Then after the kids all took a nap at the same time, I watched a movie all by myself!! The rest of the evening was very low key. I think I had to run and get dog food or something. Seriously, a nice rest full evening. Steve was even there!

OK, so that was Thursday. Friday we went to TUCSON!! We camped out on CJ's front porch! We even brought the dogs and the trailer.

There were many other things that happened, cards read and loved, and the fellowship in Tuscon was great. It brings me great joy that I am so loved.

Which leaves me staggering, staring, and gasping.

Thank you all so much.

On a smaller note:

I planned on documenting the whole trip to Tuscon with my camera. Wanna know how many pictures I took?

None.

I think this was the morning she ate a bag of chocolate.

Yup.

Then Ian and I had fun taking pictures of the hair cut he gave himself.

See how short it is?
Posing with brother will fix everything!

Then with me.......

Then brother, alone

Notice the tired confusion. Poor thing!

I know i should be in bed-but I need to share. The deoderent in my pits feels weird after a week of not.

So yeah, I made butter.

I whipped some heavy raw cream and at this point in the video, it just clicked. I mean clabbered, I mean churned into butter.

Its nice. Its raw. No one likes it but me.

Too bad for them!

I put a turkey breast in the crock pot today. So good!

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What to do with ground beef?

We got some ground beef at a great deal $1.89 a lb.

Now, what to do with it? Mind you, I am not turning on the oven and the grill is about out of propane.

Last night I decided to make individual meatloaf type patties, potatoes baked in the crock pot and fresh steamed broccoli

First was the meat.

Notice the look of concentration! He is "reading" the part about washing your hands.

Next mix two eggs...

An orange bell pepper, onion, bread crumbs, Worcestershire sauce, and misc other spices.....

Then stop and take a pic of sister.......

I pan fried these on a med heat....

These tuned out OK, but hind sight, I should have chopped the onion and pepper finer.

I am glad we have ketchup!

Tonight?

ooh la la!

Hearty Southwest Stew.

• 2 lbs of ground beef



• 1 onion



• 1 can chopped tomatoes (I had whole stewed)



• 1 cup salsa (I used a can of rotel)



• 1 can of pintos ( I had northern)



• corn



• cumin



• garlic powder



• salt &pepper



• cheese for the top

Fry the meat and onion. Put everything in but the cheese after the meat is cooked!

I had to add some more water, and an extra fresh tomato. I let it simmer for about half an hour. It was so yummy! I served it with some rolls and butter!

There was no left overs!