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Family Night
Two mornings in a row we were up before the coffee maker went off. I'm tired enough tonight that hopefully we will both sleep in. Mark woke me at 4:00 am telling me he thought there was a bug on his leg caught in his leg hair. He pulled it off then decided it must be gum and for some reason thought I must have been chewing gum when I fell asleep. I DONT chew gum at night! I turned the light on and it turned out to be a cough drop. Yep he is the one that keeps cough drops on the head board and he is the one that might fall asleep with one in his mouth. I was VERY thankful it wasn't a bug! I didn't get started on the food for tonight until 9:30 am. I had to borrow Joan's crock pot and mom's then lined those up with my 7 and started lining each of them with the crock pot liners.
These make it much easier to clean them up. I bought them off Amazon a box of 60 for $16.99.
This is the second time I have ordered these. They are large enough to fit even my largest crockpot.
I had 20 pounds of ground beef defrosted and used 10 pounds mixed in with the spaghetti sauce in each of the big Farberware pans. I love these pans, I got one for our wedding 48 years ago and Eunice gave me the second one for the barn.
I'm very grateful for both. I ended up needing to defrost another 10 pounds of hamburger to fill all 9 crock pots. While working in the barn kitchen I couldn't help but admire Evan. With this warm weather he was out grazing again. 
Once all 9 were full and plugged in, I had time to run to Aldi to pick up 2 boxes of spring mix, 2 pounds of grated colby jack for the salad and a few other items. At 3:00 pm I was back at the house, took a shower to get ready for tonight and then just rested until 4:00 pm. We needed both cars to fit all the food in for family night at the church. We started loading at 4:00 pm and made it to the church by 5:00 pm. Family night went well. We had plenty of food, Joan, Mackenson, Faith and Berlica came early to help with the set up then stayed late along with some others (thanks Joanna, Jill, Bob, Joan S and Rhoda H) to help with the clean up. David had the family night message. Click HERE If you would like to watch this. We had help loading the cars after the service and most of that is still in the cars now that we are home. Only the leftovers were brought inside. Below are the pictures of the new coat hooks Mark and Mackenson installed yesterday.
