Talon's choir singing at the grocery store

Every year our grocery store has an open house before the holidays and invites the choirs from the different schools to sing there. Talon's choir sang there on Friday and we got to go watch them. Candy, Matt's mom, and sister Esther came too. It's fun to watch the singing and then go around the store and taste the samples. They always sample out turkey, ham, cheese balls and crackers, egg nog, and ice cream. The line was too long to get the ice cream, not that I would want them to have it anyway, so we left. The kids were upset, so later I made some homemade ice cream from all raw ingredients. It was the most fabulous ice cream I have ever had. It tasted so clean and pure. Guilt-free, good-for-you ice cream!!! We ate it while watching How to train your dragon. The kids really like that movie.

Friday night to Saturday morning Matt and Talon went on an overnight campout. I had a beef stew in a crockpot all day that I put in a container for them. All Matt had to do was put it in a dutch oven to warm up for dinner. Matt made dutch-oven peach cobbler for the troop. When they went to bed, they doubled their sleeping bags to keep warm. They were expecting it to be about 35 degrees but it was only 40 degrees so it wasn't quite as cold as they were expecting. They had scrambled eggs with cheese and a sausage patty for breakfast and then came home. We then spent the day cleaning the house and doing laundry. fun fun.