how to make lots of chicken and rice

this ones for you KG.

10 cups of rice
20 cups of water
12 chickens cut up
15 cans of mushroom soup
12 pkgs of dried onion soup

First, process the ckns as usual. make sure to remove all feathers, bones, and skin.
spread rice in the bottom of your largest baking dish. add the water and sprinkle onion soup over. add the ckn. pour soup all over. bake all day at 350. if you have an outdoor oven or fire pit this may work best.

A delicious meal.....recipe by request..

Here it is folks. Panera's Cheesy Broccoli Soup Recipe..found on Food.com.

It doesn't taste EXACTLY like it but, its pretty close..and delicious....

1T melted butter

1 med onion, chopped

1/2C melted butter

1/2C flours

4C half-and-half

4C chicken stock

1LB broccoli (i used frozen)

2C carrots, julienned

1/2t nutmet

16oz cheddar chz

Saute' onions in 1T butter, set aside. Cook 1/2C melted butter and flour using whisk over medium heat for 3-4 min. Stir constantly, add half-and-half. Add chicken stock, simmer 20 min. Add broccoli, carrots, and onions, cook 20-25 min. (optional-remove most but not all broccoli and carrots, puree in blender, place back in pot) Add salt and pepper to taste. Return to heat and add cheese, stir in nutmeg.

Enjoy!

I served with homemade sweet potato fries....mmm, delicious!

Updates

Isabella and cousin Josephine

Well this has been a busy and quick summer! I haven't 'worked' since May 1st and I wouldn't change anything! I love being home...I love being with my girls all day. Well, most days..yes, some days I wish I had a job to escape to! Last week I started homeschooling Isabella and so far so good! She listens to me so well! May be odd to you that I say this, but she usually gives me quite a hard time and listens to every word of her dads. But not this time! It's odd to me that things have reversed, in relation to school. We're doing an art class together and here is an example of something she's learned so far..just thought you'd like to see an example of her drawerings. I thought it was cute. She's learned to look at an object or picture and mimic (as best as she can) what she sees. I drew a rough sketch of a bicycle (because thats the newest facination at our home) and she copied what she saw.

Ellie once she turned 2 on August 27th has hit her terrible 2's. Some days are great and she's very pleasant and listens really well and then the very next day she wakes from a nap and it's like she decided all the sudden to be in the worst mood possible! TODAY for example! She was great this morning..sweet as usual and then after nap time, miss angry came out to play! Temper tantrums, crying fits, you name it! I just want to pull my hair out some days! Isabella had her moments at this age, but never 'hit the terrible 2's'.

Ellie is also learning to converse quite well...some new words include, milkey (choco milk only), Pockey (pocket), and frickle (freckle)....it's quite cute when she says them. She loves to see 'big trucks' going down the road and 'ice keem trucks, kool bus!' It's very exciting when the school bus rides down the road. She will also tell you quite clearly when she's ready to go home from somewhere she doesn't want to be. ' Go (h)ome!' '(h)ome now!' Chris sometimes has to glance at me to see what she is saying...Isabella and I seem to pick up on it easier and faster. Or atleast Isabella says she does. 'She wants (this) mom....' 'She's saying (this)'...."ok Isabella!" :)

Oh Isabella learned to ride her bike, just in the last couple of weeks actually. Mamaw Joan made the 3 middle kids (isabella 6yrs, josephine, her cousin also 6, and Vincent, her cousin 5yrs) but, she offered them a $50 reward for the first person to learn to ride their bike. $40 for second place, and $30 for third. Within the first few days Isabella and Joey had it down! They were all riding this little 12-13'' bike made for 3 year olds...now though they are on the right size bikes. We even took our first bike trip (without pulling isabella in the cart) from Bass Island to Old Milford on the bike trail yesterday. She biked a total of 6 miles! There was a tad bit of complaining but overall she did awesome.

Beth Moore

I forgot my camera so here is a great video of the conference you can view.

And you should view it first!

Beth talked to us about Jeremiah, a book I don't think I have ever

studied this much. Her outline was Eat, Pray, Love...from the new

movie that is out now with Julia Roberts. It's about a woman

that just got out of a broken relationship and is searching

the world for God (maybe not my God...but a god..). It may not be the

best movie morally..but, it makes sense when reading the verses below.

You can search the world over and live in a desert much of your life

but you will not find ultimate love and satisfaction until you meet your heavenly

Father. And you will not bear fruit until you submit to Him and die

to yourself and forget your idols.

One of the big things that I took away was what the

definition of a desert was, or an explanation of what the desert is.

Jeremiah 2:2

"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: I remember

the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and

followed me through the desert, through a land not sown."

In the desert nothing is plowed, nothing is being dug up.

Only in the fertile land will a plant grow and be fruitful.

Matthew 15:13

"Every plant that my heavenly Father has

not planted will be pulled up by the roots."

Jeremiah 31:25

"I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint"

By following our addictions and idols we are in the desert.

ANY part of our hearts that arn't brought before God are open
to destruction.

Here some verses she gave us that may also be inspiring to you

EAT: "I brought you into a fertile land to eat fruit" Jer. 2:7

"When your words came I ate them, they were

my joy and my heart's delight." Jer 15:16

PRAY: "You will call upon me and come and pray to me, and

I will listen to you." Jer 29:12

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you

great and unsearchable things you

do not know." Jer 33:3

LOVE: "I have loved you with an everlasting love, I have drawn

you with loving-kindness." Jer. 31:1-6

"Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is

good, His love endures forever." Jer. 33:11

"Should you then seek great things for yourself?? SEEK THEM NOT!" Jer. 45:5

We had pretty awesome seats on Friday night,
rightdown in front. We got there almost an hour
and a half early to get these. Though we stayed up too late
Friday night devouring the pizza below and watching a movie
we arrived about 15m before the show started Saturday and
still got floor seats! See the ladies in blue down in front?
We sat right behind them! God is good..

Notice the odd short slice? How does that happen? They
cheated us out of a 1/4 of a slice! :D

Summer time jumping and fun

Ellie and Isabella on the trampoline

More fun..

Some words that are speaking to me this week.....maybe they'll speak to you too...

Psalm 139

1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still

with you.
19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Ellie's words

Here's a cute video of Ellie saying some of her newer words..

Ellie's Video