Jillian's recipe for Creamed Corn

· Tell Grandpa you want him to plant a garden.
· He plants 4 packages of Corn!!!
· Tell him to pick 6 ears
· Tell him to husk the six ears
· You boil them for 3 minutes
· Cut the kernels off the cob taking off only 3/16th inch off the top of kernels
· Rub cob with edge of knife to get all the rest of the mushy stuff off cob
· Pack into 1 quart zip-lock bag
· Take down stairs to freezer

Repeat this 100 times and you will have lots of cream corn to share with everyone in the family

Grandpa's garden

This was what we faced upon arriving home from Branson. I just spent about 9 hours on the corn and beans. We also had ripe Watermelons, and very large cabbages. I just received a recipe to freeze Cole-slaw and I will try that out tomorrow.

Optical Illusion

This Video was taken on the way back from Wichita. We had just turned west onto I-70 and there were hundreds of windmills. After awhile I turned on the camera and began filming. Tonight, I just downloaded the video and noticed that at the end of the film the rails are going backwards. Hmmm
Please notice how quiet Caleb and Nathanial are. They were visiting in the back seat. I don’t think Michele believed us when we said they were perfect children all the way (14 hours) from Branson, Missouri. This is the proof that they were little angels.

Heading home

We went to Pierce Arrow this afternoon. It was comedy and singing. Then we ate at McDonalds and went to evening worship at a tiny congregation here at Branson. The preachers name is Jerry Allen North.
Jerry and I took Caleb and Nathanial to the Club House tonight with 4 quarters. I bought skittles out of the vending machine and sat and listened to some old country western music Jamming. When the Skittles were gone, I brought the boys back to the apartment. Jerry went back over and the boys are watching TV. Casey and Michele are celebrating their anniversary by trying to go to a movie.
We are packing up early in the morning and will be bringing Nathanial and Caleb home with us. Casey and the rest will be finishing up at Wichita and head for Alliance sometime on Thursday or maybe Friday.
Anita

Megan and Chace

On the way to breakfast I took this picture of Megan's new hat and shirt. I told her I wanted a picture and she put her arm around Chace. Awwww

Grandma's done with coffee and up to no-good

Wednesday morning: I forgot to mention yesterday that Casey and Michele got lost after turning into Branson. Almost everyone does, so don't be surprised when it happens to you. The funny part of Branson is that it's a big circle around the town with one highway that cuts the circle in half east and west. You can drive all day around the circle and get know where.

Today, we are going to try to hit two shows. Maybe only one unless someone actually wakes up. They usually have shows at 10-3-5 and 7. We will go to bible class tonight at the little congregation here.

I took the kids to the club house yesterday morning. Over there is an indoor pool. There also is an outdoor one, but I don't do sun. We played Ping- pong. Nathanial and Caleb did great. Actually Caleb did better than Nate. We played checkers on big rugs with 4" checkers. Nathanial did fine, Caleb never got the concept. He just wanted KINGS.

There is an exercise room with a big weight contraption and a couple tread mills.

In our suite is two bedrooms. One has a whirlpool for one person and the other has a two or three person one. The beds are king size and then we have two hida beds and 4 flat screen tv's. No squabbling over who watches what.

We have 1/2 of the unit this time. We can get 1 full unit but we need more people to use that much. this one has two full kitchens with tables. I think I will take another video of the inside sometime when I get a chance.

Nathanial thought one of the safes was a CD player and was pushing buttons to get it to work. I feel sorry for the next people that can't get the safe to work.

Sorry about the no-exciting video. But I guess when you are from Nebraska, trees could be very exciting.

Hey, the troops are up. We may go to Starvin' Marvins for breakfast. See you later.

Big swing and Train ride

This is a big swing that all rode on except Grandma and Grandpa. The train was the last thing we rode at 8:30. It was dark. The ride usually has a train robbery, but they said that after dark the robbers don't have enough light. LOL

The steam engine was converted to run on #2 diesel and was real. The train had 4 cars and it went all around the whole town. He showed us a new ride that is a secret for 2009. You are supposed to go to Silvercity.com and guess at the clues for next year.

Another roller coaster ride

Believe it or not, I got this picture of Caleb riding on a big roller coaster. Everything was out of focus they were going so fast.

Silver Dollar City, Fire in the hole!!! roller coaster

Today we all went to Silver Dollar City. You pay 20.00 each and then we got to have all the rides we wanted from 4:00 to 10:00 at night. We probably only went on 1/4 of the rides. There were at least 4 roller coasters. This one was called "Fire in the hole" All of Casey's family went but it looked to fast for Grandma. I took one Video to show how fast the roller coaster shoots out to start. It has a big explosion just as it takes off. The whole top on the building looks like Dynamite blew it up. The close up video shows Caleb in the next to last car.

Jerry, Caleb, Nathanial and I started down the trail to the falls but it was still under construction. It had heavy equipment so we came back up the hill and the boys went swimming.

We ordered Pizza for lunch and the boys are watching TV and Jerry is taking a nap.

I definitely need a tech up here. I'm not figuring out the formatting on this blog at all.

My WNCC class starts Monday on HTML so maybe that will help me figure it out.

Monday morning

Since we are such trusting grandparents and we have such responsible grandchildren, we let Caleb and Nathanial sleep in the king bed with the TV on all night. This was from 4am to 7am. Well, I woke up at 7:00 and Nathanial was laying in the bed still watching TV. (A rubber stamp of what his Dad would have done) I shouldn't have been surprised. I ask him if he got any sleep. He told me he got a little but he always gets up early. LOL

After breakfast I ran the whirlpool full of water and told them to wash there hair and their bodies. After they did that I punched the button for the Whirlpool. They squealed soooo loud. They were totally surprised. What a hoot!!!

Jerry is now waiting on me. The boys' job is to watch Cartoons while I get this done and then we are going to hike to the falls and after that go swimming.

5 hours from Witchita to Branson

We drove to Casey's house after the fellowship and loaded up Caleb and Nathanial and their stuff and took off for Branson at 8:45pm on Sunday night. We got here around 2:00am. Caleb claimed he never went to sleep. Nathanial slept the whole way. Casey, Michele, Megan and Chace's job was to stay home and finish the dump trips. They have do quite a bit more last minute fix ups on the house. Who know when they will get to play with us.

Since we are only staying for 5 days they gave us the handicapped suite. The door to the apartment is on the ground floor. Our Door is right between the golf cart and the left hand car in the picture.

Fellowship in Witchita

We arrive at the church building before Casey and Michele got there for evening worship. After wards they had a fellowship going away for them. This is a picture I took of all the kids hanging around Chace and Megan. Michele said this was only a small portion of the teens in the congregation.

Niobrara river

We went Canoeing and kayaking on Sat. Aug. 9th. Brittney is in the front of the Canoe with Rhonda taking the pic. Hope, Levi and I are in the kayaks.

Kylie, Jillian and Brittney's camp

This week Kylie, Jillian and Brittney were honored to attend a camp at Fort Rob by Crawford. It is put on by the Colorado Historical Society and the National Endowment for Humanities.


This is a picture titled "Moving in" Jillian is off on an adventure for sure!!

This is the blog for the camp. oldstoriesnewvoices.blogspot.com

Jillian is with a couple of friends and Kylie and Brittney are barely visable in some other pictures on the blog.

It sounds like a lot of fun. I hope the girls got to take pictures.

I think Kylie and Brittney are hiding from the camera's.

Grandma's Toys

I couldn't resist, I had to post this picture. I finally got my first ever feather weight. I was sitting here thinking, the contrast of the sizes would make a great picture.
Anita

New baby in December

These are the pictures that Jarrod and Angie sent us for our anniversary. Lilli would have been been 20 months. She looks very ornery. I wonder where she gets this?

Anita

What have we done

A day out on the range. Aren't they cute?

B&W photo of LaWanda and Amber

This is a picture of LaWanda and Amber.

It was taken at Amber's high school graduation, May 2008. Amber took a photo class and changed the picture to look like this. The eye color is the actual color of their eyes. Very cool, Amber! You have a talent for graphic arts. We need one the those in the family.

I just figured out that when we post pictures, the title is what will be on the archive line.
The body of the post will be the explanation of the picture.
When you fill in 'Label's for this post' you use topic words separated by commas. This will allow us to search for specific pictures at a later date.
And, most important for Anita is spell check.

Owen and Lillian trip to Hawaii-1975

This is a picture of Owen and Lillian when they went to Hawaii. This would have been the year of their 30th wedding anniversary. Owen would have been 54 and Lillian 49 years old. Owen was in Hawaii in WWII while he was in the Navy.

Jerry, Anita and Kids

Jerry and Anita

LaWanda-Casey-Chris-Jim-Jarrod

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