37th Ward B-B-Q

On Saturday we had a ward/quad barbecue. There was quite a turn out. The line stayed long for awhile. We had hamburgers and hot dogs. And the ward members all brought something to share. There were some amazing spring rolls, chips, pistachio pudding, brownies, cakes, brownie ball like things covered in white chocolate, cookies and homemade root beer.

Here is the line. We are standing near the back of it. That is Joowan's backside.

It's us...

Brian grilling burgers. I didn't notice until now that I also got Cathy and Annabelle (his wife and baby) in the picture also. (sorry if I spelled baby's name wrong)

Enjoying the food

The line is still there... lots of hungry people

Brett found a caterpillar on his knee. The bandage is because he suffered from some turf burn. Brett says "I never knew people were like trees. We ooze sap too." As a comment about his burn. His wife just rolled her eyes when he started the analogy.

Brett tried to give the caterpillar to a little boy in our ward. His facial expression was no, no, not me. I'm not touching that. After he finally took the stick from Brett he promptly handed it to Jeremy.

What is left of the lentil chocolate cake. The little kids kept coming up and asking for more. That is how most of it disappeared. I guess we could say it is a successful way of getting them to eat something sort of healthy.

Extension Class

Extension is a wonderful program. This class was dedicated to cooking with beans. I learned that there are some delicious things one can do with beans. We learned how to cook with the beans and how to store them.

This is Lisa. She is a wonderful lady who teaches foodsense classes for Extension. In the pot is an amazing combination of rice, coconut milk, garlic and chickpeas.

This is pinto bean pie. It tastes just like pumpkin pie.


Mmmmmm... chocolate cake. Made with a secret ingredient...

Lentils!!

Shopping Adventures

Last night I was playing with a stretching your food dollar website. They quoted our family with needing to spend almost $400.00 a month in groceries. Then when I clicked on no we spend less... it told me we must make our food dollar stretch.

Here is our latest shopping adventure. Jesse told me it looks like a grocery display. He is currently trying to find a place to put it all. Albertson's was having a wonderful sale. One of those buy this many and save four dollars. The beans and the enchilada sauce ended up being 75 cents and I really really like refried beans. And I don't think we'll need cereal for a least a few months. Sadly though they were out of frosted flakes so we had to substitute with Poptarts.

Here was the real deal... the cereal ended up being 1.50 a box which is pretty good for name brand cereal. Not to mention that these cereals may actually be good for one's body. Well turns out there are some dollar off coupons on the internet for these same cereals. 50 Cents a box!

Here is the reciept. Now granted we were at Albertson's and they are a bit pricey. So the $73.11 savigs is based on prices about 20 cents higher than Walmart.

My Tummy

This is the progress so far. We still have a little more than two months left before he arrives.

Looking backward a little bit...

This is my tummy in March. Not the best picture...

Tummy in January

Volleyball Tuesdays

Every Tuesday someone sets up the volleyball net and our ward gets together and plays volleyball.

Notice that there are no females playing. I will attribute that to the high pregnancy rate in our ward. Ready... Set

Now really, what is Jesse doing?
(he added the comma... saying if you are going to make fun of me get your grammar right)

Bishop decided to join us for a little bit.

Cold baby

This is what we call the wives club. It is more watching than playing...

Debtless

I just needed to celebrate. Jesse got his job back and we paid off our last debt. It feels so wonderful to be free of debt. It reminds of Martin Luther King saying "free at last, free at last!" I met my goal of being debt free before our baby was born. Hurray!

Small LDS world

Jesse on his mission

Peggy in her family history work discovered a third cousin who she began sharing information with. Here is part of an e-mail from that person.

I met my 3rd cousin (via e-mail), Peggy Coffman. A week or so ago she sent me a photo of her family at a wedding. It was immediately obvious that she and her family are LDS. Small world! The photo was of a wedding, apparently outside of a Temple, with all her family dressed and looking LDS. Long story short... they are LDS. While at the Family History Center the other night, I was telling the story of how I had met this gal, and had the Coffman's picture on the computer screen, when a voice from behind me said "I know those people". It was Nena Caldwell. I assured her that she didn't know these people, as they lived in Indiana, and I didn't even really know them. She countered, "Well, that's Jesse Coffman and his family... ¿right?" Come to find out, Peggy's son Jesse (whose wedding photo it was) served in the Mission where Bro. Caldwell served as the Mission President. What are the odds?

Jesse and President and Sister Caldwell

Small world isn't it?