Grandpa's Hotdish: serves: everyone!!!

3 1/2 cups Finely Chopped Celery
1 Green Pepper, Diced
2 Medium Onions - Chopped
1 Pound Bacon - cut into small pieces
7 Coffee Cups of Elbow Macaroni Noodles
4 1/2 Quarts Stewed Tomatoes

Cook celery and green peppers in water until tender. Fry Bacon, spoon into cooked celery and greem pepper mixture. Continue cooking. Add 1 quart tomatoes to mixture. Fry onions in bacon jiuce until tender. Mix with celery/pepper mixture: juice and all! Boil half a kettle water and add 2 big spoons of salt and 3 1/2 cups of noodles. Cook 9-10 minutes. Drain and cool off with cold running water. Dump in roaster. Repeat noodle thing again. Dump celery/pepper mixture and rest of tomoatoes into roaster. Mix it up and Bake at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours.

My mom and I spent an afternoon with Grandpa to make this hotdish. . . this recipe is exactly how it goes. . . everything down to boiling the noodles in two separate batches and adding the onions with all the bacon "juice". Enjoy!!!

Last BLAST of AUGUST

First up to bat in a long time coming whiffle ball game. . . AMANDA! with a single!

And then we have Calvin. . . who probably struck out (sorry but it's true, I do believe that he was responsible for two outta three outs each inning. . . HOWEVER, we needed him for his pitching!!!)
And Angela. . . the third member on the team that got rocked!!!
I believe that was one of many k's that Adam owned that evening. . . although he did come back later to take 2nd in the homerun dirby, only one run more than his lil sister!!!
And where would we be without our dedicated fans/catchers when we needed them!

last BLAST of AUGUST

Can I interest you in some leprechan legs (aka bean fries)?!?!? A new fav of mine at the state fair!!! Ranks right up there with roasted corn and custards last stand strawberry vanilla swirl custard cone.

Chad and I got matching tattoos . . . now for sure we have to get married!!!
Extreme Bocce Ball anyone??? We headed to a park to grill (believe it or not, I can still eat after going to the state fair. . . must be related to those scholl girls who can really put away the groceries!!!)
Who would have thought. . . my "shotput" method prevailed (once)!