a weekend of entertaining and cooking

We had my parents over for my Dads birthday saturday. It was a nice visit, we don't see them as much as we want to and they are they live the closest to us. We had black bean soup for dinner. I need to post the recipe for this later. I get asked for it alot and it's super easy. My four year old even likes it (but he likes everything). Then yesterday we had a group of friends over for the superbowl. I don't think I even got to watch five minutes of the game, I spent too much time visiting~ but it was a good visit too. At least Paul saved it on the dvr so I can watch all the commercials and see what the fuss is that people will be talking about. Seems a bit backwards to record a show to fastforward through so you can catch the commercials, but superbowl commercials are almost always good. They should be for what is spent on them. Wouldn't it be nice though to see a company post a note that rather than spending their budget on commercials they donated it to charity.

We had chili last night so I'll post the recipe for that as well. I get requests for it too, and the carmel popcorn and Shepards dip. My friend Shannon gave me both those recipes. I was thinking I need to make something beside Shepards dip since I've made it the last couple get togethers, but people love it so much I don't know that I'll get out of making it.

Nathan is becoming so grown up. I caught him yesterday in the corner with a group of the older kids teaching them how to play some of the games we have. He still says he wants to be a vet, but I could see him being a teacher of some sort. He is very patient and loves explaining things to others.

He still has his teeth, but they are so loose they don't even hang straight down, they kinda push out. I'm sure if he sneezed they'd be gone.

I started a new class at church called the Truth project, I'll post more about it later.
~have a happy Monday!