Visit to Grandma's

The girls and I headed to Batesville today to visit with Grandma Lois. We were originally supposed to cook and cut off fresh corn and freeze it. But since she knew I couldn't stay too long today because I had to work at the donut booth, she took care of it last weekend! So I am now the proud owner of 10 ziploc bags of frozen fresh sweet corn that will taste delicious this fall and winter when we're cursing the cold. AND...we got 2 dozen ears of fresh corn to cook up tomorrow night for dinner! We love our Indiana sweet corn. Poor Emma will need hers cut off the cob this season. Poppy says she looks like a jack o lantern. :)
Emma's at the top, Soph & Lil's on the bottom.
I got the idea for this photo from one I had found on Pinterest.

On top of the corn, Grandma gave us:

Dried noodle and veggies for an easy soup recipe

Chocolate zucchini cake

She had an extra package of queen sized batting. I'll use that for a t-shirt quilt I'm making for my nephew.

Extra flannel fabric

Her new-in-the-mail-that-day American Girl catalog that Emma and Soph went through to circle what they wanted (pretty much everything was marked)

Directions and visual instruction on how to make a microwave potato bag (now on my craft list)

Thanks so much, Grandma!

Poppy was also there for a while too to replace the tailgate struts on my Envoy. They were shot and the door was just dead weight. Not easy to get stuff in and out while holding a 50 lb door up with one hand. Unfortunately, I ordered the wrong size parts at first, but Dad got it straightened out and fixed for me today. Thanks, Dad!

So that delay meant no bike riding for the girls at his house around his large circular driveway. I heard about that ALL the way home! They were really upset. I don't blame them. They really love riding there. It's like a racetrack for them. I promised we'd go back soon.

Donut booth shift #1 done. As I sit here, I smell like a greasy donut, but not sure I have to energy to shower before bed. My mom and I took turns running the fryer tonight and I have to say they turned out darn tasty if I do say so myself. It just took some slight tweaking on grease temp, batter temp and fry time and they were little golden circles of sugary goodness. We raked in $2000 today, the best of the week so far! Can you guess what we're having for breakfast tomorrow?!

Tim brought the girls up to the fair tonight for dinner while I was working. They had pizza, grilled cheeses & milkshakes. They petted the sheep and now Soph wants one as a pet. They also scored 2 large pink inflatable dolphins. Daddy got suckered again :) They had a blast and were pretty tired so Tim said they went to be pretty well. Which is where I'm headed...