Kashann and Clan

We were happy to get hit with snow right before Christmas. By Christmas Day it had warmed to 50 degrees, was raining and our white Christmas was more like a brown Christmas. I snapped this before it got ugly.Brent built the kids this sledding hill in our backyard.

Last Saturday I really needed to go grocery shopping but never got around to it. As we were getting into bed that night I remembered . . . That I had signed up to feed 3 sets of elders for Sunday dinner. Please let church be canceled. By Sunday morning, the bishop had sent out a message that church was not canceled but optional, because of a blizzard that was predicted to start around noon. A couple of the kids were sick with ear infections so we stayed home and Brent went alone because he is the one with responsibilities lately. I sent him with plates of cookies to send home with the elders in lieu of dinner. A blizzard, sick kids, no grocery shopping for several days. . . we were canceling. The kids and I enjoyed couch church in our pj's. Brent interrupted a great morning at 11 a.m. Church was out. He told me later that during the early morning meeting the Bishop suggested they just have Sacrament Meeting and RS/ Priesthood, and forgo the Sunday school hour. Brent was scheduled to teach EQ and had yet to start studying a lesson. He quickly broke in with,"Hey, I have a better idea? How about we just have sacrament meeting?" Bishop shrugged and said OK. So having manipulated the entire buffalo ward he now was ready to also alter my day.
He would be bringing 7 elders home for lunch. Be ready by 1.

"Any idea, what you are gonna fix?"

Time to get to work. 45 minutes later I had just finished the breakfast dishes when the phone rang. It was Elder Fallon. They were just turning onto our exit. No, Brent wasn't with him, he was making deliveries to widows in the ward but they could help me with dinner for the next hour until he got there. Lovely. I only had time to take off my PJ's and all 7 elders were there. They shoveled snow for us and all our neighbors and played with my crazy kids for the next hour while I threw together 2 large salads, not my best recipes ever but with the notice I had I was proud of the finished product, and 6 homemade pizzas.

Brent rescued me an hour later and began cooking up pizza's one by one. We started them off with the salads. I came in 15 minutes later to scoop me up some salad. An elder immediately stopped dishing himself and handed it over to me. There was about 1/4 cup left. Meanwhile Brent and I were delivering pizza after pizza but couldn't keep up. Each pizza disappeared within one minute of bringing it out. We finally got smart and saved a couple pieces in the kitchen before bringing one out. I would deliver one to the table and announce, "Okay, we got a Taco Pizza coming out next" After the fifth one, I announced, "Okay just one more pizza, and it's pepperoni."
Brent and I were a little overworked and hungry at this point, and did some math in the kitchen (they had all had about 6 pieces each, not to mention all our salad) and decided that maybe this pizza wouldn't be going out to the table after all. We would just save this one for US. So a couple minutes before it came out of the oven I went out and got their cookies from the car, dumped them on a platter and brought that out. There is no way they could eat any more pizza and would get full on those cookies and forget all about the last one.

Didn't work. One elder took one look at my huge pile of cookies and said, "Hey, that doesn't look like a pepperoni pizza to me!"

I went in and shared the bad news to Brent. We brought out the last pizza then. . .but took out another slice each first.
Great elders! I love it when my cooking is so well received. It was no big deal, just kinda funny for us cooks in the kitchen. It's not like we need more than a couple slices of pizza anyway.
And we broke out the ice cream as soon as we got them out the door.
See those clean plates. You would've thought that we had starved them or something. It's amazing what you can come up with if you have your food storage.