A Full Weekend

I couldn't load the pictures from my camera to the computer because the camera batteries are dead. So you will just have to use your imagination. Friday night we had Jon and Maura over for a spontaneous dinner. Maura was walking out the door and Nate asked her to go get her husband and come back for Stouffer's lasagna. I almost had a freaker because I didn't have the fixings for a nice salad, only lettuce and carrots, I had only one box of Texas toast and it wasn't homemade lasagna that I was serving my guests. Nate however has no pride when it comes to stuff like that and I am so glad he doesn't because we had a blast. The kids ate in the sun room and the adults at the dining room table. We laughed and turned red and I didn't even care about the food, which there was just enough of and tasted fine. (not great, but fine) I even had a frozen apple pie and vanilla ice cream so we ended up with a decent dessert. It is so much better to just have someone over spontaneously then to plan and sweat over a meal. If I would have invited them over earlier, I would have run to the store, spent lots more money, and made a home made dish instead, but I would have missed out on a relaxing evening with friends.

Saturday was clean up the old paintball fields at the in laws house day. Nate's old paintball fields have been rotting in my in laws lower pasture for years now, and they have patiently waited for us to have the time to clean them up. It was beautiful here on Saturday so we headed out to begin the cleanup. I say begin because it will probably take another day or so of burning, moving and smoothing with the Dae Wo to get it back into shape. Anyway we had pizza for dinner that night.

Sunday dinner was chips and dip. Yes, I said dip and chips. I make a bean dip and we eat it with tortilla chips on a monthly basis at least. Sunday nights are usually low key as far as the menu goes and everyone loves the dip. The ingredients are:

2 packages of cream cheese
2 cans of refried beans
1 jar of salsa (the big jars I can't remember the ounces but it is double the small jars)
1 -2 cups of grated cheeses (I mix a couple of kinds or buy the packages Mexican mix)
1 can of black olives to slice

Heat oven to 350
soften cream cheese in a 9 x 13 casserole dish
spread cream cheese on the bottom of dish
In another bowl combine salsa and refried beans, mix together well and spread over cream cheese. Then sprinkle shredded cheese over the entire top, add sliced olives and bake for 30 mins.

I can't remember if I posted this picture of Dania or not, but they sent it to me last week so I think it is a new one.