And the Winner Is....

Ah...another Sunday night. I can't believe a week has gone by already!

The week itself was not so busy. The kids went through it basically okay. Bethany had some after affects of eating take out pizza but she bounced back okay. TJ helped out with his usual volunteer cleaning of the church Youth Center and then he and Brett spent an hour crushing pop cans to take to the recycle place. I told Brett I would have to buy them some can crushers. Right now they have to stomp on them! LOL

Friday afternoon TJ and Troy started their slow cookers full of chili. They each had their own kind of chili they were making to enter in our church's annual chili cook-off. They said they needed at least two days for it to cook. The house was filling up with the smell of tomato and peppers and chili powder.

Friday night we all went to a fish fry that one of the Catholic churches in the next town was having. TJ's friend Steven's family goes to the Nazarene church in the next town and every year they go to the fish fry at the church in that town. TJ was going to go with Steven's family then I suggested to Troy that we ALL go. I've never been to one before. Bethany's friend Amber came home with her after school so she went too. It was interesting. The fish was good and so was the cole slaw and pie. I can't say much for the mac and cheese...never had any that was so dry! We bought some raffle tickets for things they had there but had no luck. TJ was going home with Steven.

We ended up stopping at Amber's house and waiting while she packed a bag, then stopped at our house and Bethany packed a bag...I took them both to Megan's house and they spent the night there.

Saturday Troy went out with Dave and Gordon to play some golf...nine hole course. TJ said the Steve woke him up at 7 a.m. to go to the Y to work out. LOL I opened some windows and did some cleaning. I opened the door to the sunroom and left it open so Max could go out there and enjoy himself. I gave it a good sweeping. Bethany had come home early and went back to bed for a bit. But she had to give Pete a clean cage.

Sunday night and we were off to the chili cook off. Amber and her mom came with us.
It was a packed Youth Center!! There were 16 guys with chili entries...and each one tasted different. There was one with opposum meat, one that was a seafood chili, one with sausage, one with elk meat, one with pasta..then the traditional chilis. The pastor had asked a construction company if they would get a few of their guys to come over and be the judges. So we had 4 impartial judges this year. They were voting for a winner in two categories: traditional and non-traditional. The guy that made the pasta chili won in the non-traditional category. And in the traditional chili category the winner was....TJ!!! He had a mouth full of chili when they announced him as the winner and he just about choked on it!! LOL I am so happy that he got that bit of positivity in his life! He really needed it! And Troy was proud of him too. He gets his name on the trophy that is displayed in the glass case in the foyer of the church. I will have to take his picture with it.

This has been another busy weekend but it didn't seem quite as bad as last weekend for some reason. I'm not complaining...it is good to have things to do.