Jesus Loves Casseroles

art by Brock Designs

I know I know I know!!!!
But before you start sending me hate mail or want to burn my house down, hear me out and let me explain.

On the 5 hour trip to Spokane to The Farm Chicks Show we had a lot of time to chat about a lot of things. One of subjects was religion.
Now I’m not going to bore you with a play by play as to how we got to this subject or how it ended up where it did.

In the car I was traveling with a Mormon, a Lutheran, and someone who is fascinated with all different religions, especially the Jewish Religion. She claims at times to be a French Vegetarian Jew who has a secret fondness for bacon. Yeah, I know………she ain't right!

As we were talking, we somehow got on the subject of church casseroles and how most of the religions we know of all serve great food at church functions funerals.

Also how taking a casserole, a crock-pot, salad or dessert to someone is the ultimate good deed.

The conclusion was…..

Jesus must love casseroles!

Now when I ran this by some of my regular church goin' friends of all different faiths they all laughed and said “you're right!”
Making a dish of love and goodness and sharing it with friends and family is something we all want to do, should do, and do it on a regular basis.

So lets share our favorite recipes.

This is how it’s going to work
Every Wednesday on my blog I’m going to feature new recipes sent to me by you!

Send me your favorite recipe, pictures with your recipe, a story about your recipe, recipe variations, or what your favorite dish is to serve it in.

Whatever you want me to know about the recipe or yourself.

I’m going to feature what you send me on my blog giving you full credit with a link back to your blog. In return I’ll send you a little art work that you can feature on your blog that lets people know your recipe was featured.

Not a blogger?

No problem send me your recipes anyway. I’ll still post it.

Sooooooooo

Send me your favorite recipes, your blog link and where your from to

Agirlnamedtimi@hotmail.com

I'll feature the recipes in the order I receive them.

I’ll feature a main dish recipe, a salad recipe, and a dessert recipe every week.

Because we all know that Jesus doesn't just love casseroles, he loves salads and desserts too!

This week's recipes...

Chicken Stew for the Soul

(baked casserole)

From Angie Carmen

3 cups cooked, cut-up leftover chicken
1 cup frozen peas, thawed
1 cup frozen corn, thawed
1 can diced new potatoes, drained
1/4 cup celery, finely diced
1/4 cup onion, finely diced
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 can half & half (or milk)
1 tsp. poultry seasoning (or more to taste)
salt and pepper to taste
1 package Stove Top Stuffing Savory Herb (follow box directions to mix)

Place the cooked chicken, peas, corn, diced potatoes, celery, onion, salt and pepper in an appropriate sized casserole dish. In a bowl, mix the cream of chicken soup, half & half and poultry seasoning together. Pour half (1/2) of the soup mixture over the casserole ingredients; tossing all together to combine.
Prepare the stuffing mix according to the package directions. Place the stuffing mix over the casserole and bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
Pour the remaining soup mixture over the baked casserole and return to oven to bake for an additional 5 to 10 minutes; or until the center is hot and the top is bubbly.
Serves 4.


Variations:

If you are a masochist (or have tons of stuffing leftover from Thanksgiving) feel free to make and use your own homemade stuffing;

Use favorite flavor of Stove Top Stuffing (so much simpler for a casserole);

Add 1/2 cup pre-cooked and crumbled Jimmy Dean Sage sausage to the chicken mixture;

Use cooked and diced Turkey for a post-Thanksgiving casserole;

Use cooked and diced Ham for a post-Easter casserole;

Add canned (4 ounce) sliced or diced mushrooms (drained) and substitute cream of mushroom soup;

Use a combination of cream of chicken and cream of celery soups for flavor variation;

Use 2 ounces (1/2 can) of mild green chiles, mixed with can of Fiesta Nacho Cheese cream soup (Campbell's); omit the peas and add 1/2 cup drained black beans to the vegetable mixture and use Stove Top Stuffing Cornbread flavor for a tamale like casserole;

Finally, you can forget about the stuffing and spread the whole thing with leftover mashed potatoes....yum!

Marinated Tomato & Basil Pasta Salad

Here's my favorite

It's easy, eat-too-much good and everyone always loves it.

From Shawn Severin

Chop 3-4 large or 5-6 small tomatoes, removing as many seeds as possible.

In a large serving bowl combine the tomatoes with:

1/4 cup good quality olive oil

2 Tbls. red wine vinegar

2-3 cloves of crushed garlic

1/2 cup chopped basil

salt and pepper to taste

Allow ingredients to marinate 1-4 hours at room temp

Add 1 lb. of penne pasta and 1 cup of diced mozzarella cheese and stir well.

Can be served immediately or at room temperature.

Kahlua Cake

Timi

1 Chocolate Cake Mix (I like the Duncan Hines Triple Chocolate Super moist Cake Mix)
1 Pint Sour Cream
1 small package chocolate or vanilla instant pudding
2 eggs
¼ cup vegetable or canola oil
½ cup Kahlua
Chocolate chips optional

Mix all together by hand. Do not use mixer. It doesn’t have to be mixed until the lumps are out. Just mix until the cake mix is mixed in with all the other ingredients. Bake at 350 for 45-60 minutes in a greased bunt pan. This also works well in cupcake tins. Frost with either chocolate frosting, powder sugar frosting, or sprinkle with powder sugar.
I like to make this cake in mini bunt pans and give it away as gifts with a plate of cookies for the holidays. It’s always a hit.

Bust out those recipe boxes and cookbooks and share a recipe.

My 2 Seconds Of Fame

I'm a huge fan of Paula Deen. I have been since I first saw her on Door Knocker Dinners way back when the Food Network first started on cable.

I have all the cookbooks

I have seen all the episodes of everything she has done on Food Network since she had her first show.

I'm not a big fan of Paula's Party but I tune in once in a while.

I have been to Savannah Georgia to Lady and Son's and Uncle Bubba's

I even got to meet her briefly Yep!

That's right.

I got up on a Saturday morning in December with snow on the ground and drove an hour to stand in line for 2 hours at Costco waiting to get an autograph from her on the Holiday cookbook she had just released.

That's me right there in the leopard print coat getting my cookbook signed.

More fine photography

She and Micheal were very nice and chatted with each person who came.

I know a lot of people think she's fake, has sold out, and uses too much butter.

I DON'T CARE!

Both of them were very gracious, down to earth and I was an even bigger fan after meeting her and Micheal.

A couple months ago I got an e-mail newsletter from Paula Deen Magazine on line that had a little blurb at the bottom that was asking for stories about your family summer traditions.

I thought "what the hell?"

I'm going to write a story about my family reunion that we attend every year. It's even more exciting this year because it's the 70th reunion. I thought that was worth writing about.

It would be fun if it got published or even better yet if the Paula Deen showed up to our family reunion in Canyonville Oregon.

So I got to writing

I contacted my cousin Carrie who also is a huge Paula Deen fan and told her what I was up to. She and I e-mailed back and forth, wrote, rewrote, and talked on the phone about what I should write and day dreamed about how fun it would be if Paula Deen showed up and surprised everyone.

Well finally my story was done

and I sent it in.

Last week.........

My story was published on the Paula Deen on line Magazine!

Can you believe it?

I was so excited I about wet my pants when they notified me that it would be used.

I guess Paula Deen isn't coming to my family reunion but that's OK.

She doesn't know what she is missing

Here's the link to the story

and

Here's the story I submitted

The Gregory Family Reunion

Every summer it seems like my family is running in a million different directions yet there is one event that stops us all in our tracks….our annual family reunion. It’s a family tradition that we look forward to every year and we NEVER miss it! Over the years the family has spread out across the miles yet the first weekend in August we all come home to Oregon for the Gregory Family Reunion (this year marks the 70th year of our family reunion).

The Gregory family, originally from Oklahoma, came to Oregon during the depression to work in the lumber mills. Stories are told about how they left “home” setting off to a better place, a place with less dust and more jobs. They picked cotton along the way, often stopping and camping for weeks at a time along the side of the highway to earn money before being able to move on.

Hard times and each other is all they had when they arrived. Summers in the Oregon coastal communities where they eventually settled were humid and hot, and meager in both amenities and food. But with those original Gregory’s, came stamina, and a zest for life and each other. And it was these characteristics that began our annual gatherings and which still bring us together seventy years later. Six children of the original Oregon Gregory settlers are still with us today and still attend each annual reunion.

In the beginning years they met on a Sunday, at someone’s home. There were yard games, men chatting about the economy (I think we have come full circle since those days), fishing, ladies chatting and sharing recipes, and lots of good old’ Okie food. Later they moved the annual event to a local park, one with water so the kids could splash and play, and cool off. After several years they moved the reunion to a park inland about 50 miles where they gathered the first Sunday in August for the next 30-some years. Eventually it grew into a weekend of camping and it remains so today. The meeting place has changed a few times in the last twenty years but the reason hasn’t: Family and Food!

Each year members of our extended family begin arriving as early as Wednesday or Thursday prior to official reunion weekend. They come from Arizona, California, Washington, Idaho and from all over Oregon. They show up in motor homes, travel trailers and tents, with kids, dogs, and friends in tow. Some of our non-campers stay at the local hotels which are all within walking distance of the park. We rent the entire lower half of the park down by the river. Many of us have not seen or talked to each other for a full year so we have designated Friday night the official opening of the weekend and we do so with Wine and Hors d'oeuvres, better known amongst us Gregory’s as “Cocktail Hour”. Everyone brings their favorite new wine and some munchies to accompany their wine choice. Ice cold beer is usually on standby as well.

Saturday is the day of the actual picnic where a Potluck Extravaganza takes place. Early in the day there is a caravan to the local farm on the other side of the river to see what is available. Corn on the cob, green beans, peaches, or onions is always the first choice with the Gregory family. Whatever is fresh and available will be one of the highlights at the potluck.

Dinner is served at 2pm sharp (my grandmother pretty much keeps everyone on schedule) and people start lining up with plates and forks in hand at 1:30pm. My Dad and Uncle Ron have been known to just keep a fork in their shirt pocket in case someone walks by with something on their plate that needs to be sampled. Quality Control they call it. Over the years we’ve integrated table-top bar-b-ques and the gents serve up bbq’d hamburgers and hotdogs while the ladies fill in the rest.

I can honestly, and proudly, say that the Gregory Family Reunion is totally centered on food! Yes, we are all good down- home-cookin’ foodies! There are recipes that have been brought every year time and time again. Rosemary Gregory always brings fresh tomatoes and watermelon from California. My Aunt Jewel makes the best desserts, and Cousin Carrie always brings something from her Grandmother’s recipe collection in honor of her Grandma who is my Grandma’s sister. Two years ago I was honored with my grandmother giving me her recipe box and she now calls me weeks before the picnic and tells me what to fix. She’s already planning on what I should bring and this year it’s her carrot cake. Last year it was Sauerkraut Salad which was a hit and has been requested again this year. Cousin Angie is putting together a cookbook of all the recipes we can gather from the Gregory families, past and present. It should be fun!

During the weekend some of us will fish at the nearby river, the little ones will ride their bikes around camp, some of us will nap, others will move their folding chairs around following the sun in search of a little tan and almost always the adults will engage in a water gun fight with the youth. Because the park we gather at is just minutes from an Indian casino, each evening after dark a group of us will head up there for some partaking of the casino festivities… if you know what I mean!

For two-and-a-half days we sit around listening to the elders tell the stories of reunions past, stories of the hard times, and who is related to who and how. We catch up on what each family has been doing for the past year and there is always a family group photo to mark the end of another year.

On Sunday morning everyone begins packing up to head home, but not before there is a recipe exchange over coffee and left over desserts. We promise to send everyone the pictures we have each taken with our cameras and vow to be back again next year. And then, as quickly as it came, it is over, with hugs and long embraces, and a wave goodbye.

I am enclosing a link to photos of past reunions for your viewing. It’s not fancy but we have a good time and I can’t imagine not attending. It’s something my husband and I plan on, and around, all year long. The three generations of girls in my family (myself and my cousins) are enormous fans of Paula Deen. We have been following her since she first appeared on “Door Knocker Dinners”. We have visited Lady and Son’s, bought all the cookbooks, cried through her wedding and the birth of her grandson Jack. We would be honored if she or people from her staff would like to attend our reunion. There will certainly be enough food and drink for all of you!

Timi

If you would like to look at pictures from our past family reunions please check The Gregory Family on Facebook.

The Hubs let me think I was the bomb around here for a couple days then he informed me that if by some freak accident I got famous I would still be responsible for cleaning out the cat box and getting laundry done.

Nothing like family to keep you grounded.

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I'm working on something that I'm going to start featuring on my blog each week.

I need everyone's help.

Gather up your favorite recipes that you like to make and share.

Casseroles, Crockpot, salad and desserts

I need you to start sending them to me.

If you have pictures of the dish, you making the dish, or the empty dish after you make it...........send them to me too along with the recipe.

Agirlnamedtimi@hotmail.com

Also.....................

Mark your calendars it's coming up

Blog Party

Downtown Snohomish

August 8th

Keepin The Farm Chicks High

After that fabulous Farm Chicks weekend last week, I came home higher than a kite on The Farm Chicks atmosphere. My head was spinning with ideas, things I wish I would have bought, trying to remember names and faces of all the bloggers /non bloggers I met and thinking about next years trip.

It's a Farm Chicks high that lasted for weeks and weeks last year.

My high was only to be snuffed out immediately on Monday morning by my Mother and physical therapist.

I had promised to help my Mom with her garage sale this last weekend. My physical therapist just roughed me up so I would be sore all week. I sometime thinks she does that so that it will be a reminder to me that I need to be doing my stretches and exercises on my shoulder on a regular basis.

Anyway.............back to my story of getting high

45 years of accumulation (my mom saves everything) is what my Mom had that needed to be organized, priced, and ready for 3 days of selling.

THANK YOU

WSU Laura for helping me price and organize one day.

That's a good friend folks.

Most of my week last week was helping my parents, catching up with house chores that I was soooooooo behind on, physical therapy, getting the Mobile Estate ready for a garage sale weekend stay at the parents, and making sure The Hubs was ready for his impromptu trip to Florida.

If that doesn't kill a good Farm Chicks high I don't know what will.

On Sunday I was looking to get a fix. I was lookin to get high again.

I called WSU Laura said "ya wana get our high back?"

She was in!

It had been a high killing week for her too.

How did we get our high back you ask?

The Funky Junk Sisters

and a little junk shoppin

Linda, Funky Junk Mama, and Dixie

Have you heard of them? Have you met them? Have you visited their blog?

You need to!

I loved meeting these ladies. We had the best visit with them and will be following them and their Royal Junkness.

Dixie and Funky Junk Mama

This was a great freshman show! They had fantastic vendors, displays were beautiful, and it was set up well.

I hope that they decide to do this again. Because I see a sophomore show from these ladies being even better.

We got to do a little shoppin, a little buyin, meet bloggers we didn't get to meet at Farm Chicks and met some that didn't get the opportunity to go to Farm Chicks.

WSU Laura and I got up early Sunday morning and drove to Puyallup to meet

Lisa, Isabel, and Joy.

and........ an added bonus............

We finally got to meet Laurie Ann of Tinkers Piggies whom WSU Laura and I have been blogging with, chatting with and trying to meet for over a year.

Today was the day!

It was so much fun to meet her and her mother. After reading her blog for so long it was like we had known each other for ages.

Thank you Laurie for coming out to the Funky Junk Sisters sale.

I also got to meet Tiffany from Shabby Scraps. She was one of the very first blogs I followed when I first started blogging.

How stinkin cute is she?

WSU Laura, Shabby Scraps, A Girl Named Timi (with her eyes closed of course)


Have you met Deb Kennedy of Retreat?

She was at Farm Chicks.

I didn't get to chat with her there but I had the nicest visit with her at Funky Junk Sisters.



Bob (aka..Dave) and Deb

They are super nice and if you see them at another show or even out and about.......say hi. They are smart, interesting, have wonderful items and are super fun to chat with.

Have you met Mary Beth?

She's from Poppyseeds in Stanwood.

This is a super cute store that Michele introduced me to last year when in her hood (hometown) of Stanwood.

They have some fantastic stuff in that little store.

This is the lady who stepped in front of me while I was taking a picture.

This is an example of the unflattering pictures I use sometimes as mentioned by Debi Burton in her blog this week. What Debi forgets is that I take crap pictures! They are all usually unflattering.

I decided to post this picture of this woman because her and her friend were having so much fun at this show. They were shopping up a storm, laughing, and visiting with everyone. She clearly had her eye on something and was headed towards it. She didn't care who was in her way. It made Debi and I laugh.

We have all been there!

Lady in the picture.........if your reading.........I hope you are still on your Funky Junk Sister High.

This is Debi Burton from Ormolulu

We met in blog land and through Annie.

Again........she was so busy at Farm Chicks that we didn't get to chat much when we finally met in person. We finally got to chat a while on Sunday and it was so much fun. Not only does she have some very cool stuff.......... she's fun too.

These are some of the pictures I took on Sunday at the show.

I was trying to be all Tres Birds like with my photo skills.

as well as trying to show up all those other blogger with all their fancy great pictures they post. Like Coastal Nest with all her lovely pictures

My picture takin arm is getting better. I can get my arm up past my waist now and I'm getting pretty handy with my left hand. I don't think this is really going to help my photography skills but it's a good excuse right now.

Lisa, Isabel, and Joy

Those crazy girls from Oregon.

I'm also going to include Joy's sister Teri in with these crazy ladies even though she's not from Oregon.

She was with us also but I don't know where she was.

She's just like Joy......only different.

I have grown to really adore and admire these ladies. Spending time with them is like having your batteries recharged. You can't help but be in a great mood and inspired for days on end after spending a day with them.

Let me tell you about a little secret that WSU Laura and I found out about after we left The Funky Junk Sisters Sale.

Something that maybe all of you knew about already.

Laura and I didn't.

Sumner Washington has some GREAT stores!

Who knew?

A few months ago I met Debi Brock (who is a really lovely woman) from Garden Party while I was at Annie's. Debi was telling me about The Funky Junk Sisters, and about Today's Country Store. About Amy being published in Flea Market Style and that I should check them out one day.

It sounded like I really should............

Well this 411 should have been a 911!

I was totally missing out by not following up and knowing this information.

This is Jeanine at Today's Country Store

She provided Laura and I with exceptional customer service!

This is a great store.

We will so be making a trip back to Sumner!

A lot of the stores were closed on Sunday (stupid! Didn't they know it was The Funky Junk Sister Show?) but we hit everyone of them that was open.

The New England Salt Box

Simple Tidings

Picket Fence

Folk Art Gatherings

Whistle Stop Antiques

You should plan a trip there. This is a great place to wonder, poke around and buy. They also have this very fun charm bracelet program that some of the stores are participating in. It's a fabulous idea and I'm going to have to steal it some how.

I bet you don't leave empty handed from this little town. I know Laura and I didn't!

Mark your calendars and dust off those blog badges you made.

August 8th there is going to be a blog party in downtown Snohomish.

More details to follow.

Farm Chicks 2009

AWESOME!

This is the only word I could come up with that described this years road trip to Spokane for The Farm Chicks Show.

I don't know how they did it, but those ladies put on an even better show than last year. In fact The Farm Chicks should think about changing the event name to
The Farm Chicks Antique and Amazing Talented People Show.

I talked with Twiggy 59 Accessories when I first got in to the show and she put in to words exactly what the feeling was in the air at this show.

"This is the most amazing show, every woman in this building gets it!

We might not all have the same tastes but we all have a common thread and we all get it. It makes me almost cry if I think about it too long."

If you have never been to a Farm Chicks Show you need to plan on attending one. Gather up your best junkin buddies, shit shoppin girl friends, or who ever and make the pilgrimage. Even if it's just one time, do it! You will not be sorry at all.

Because it was so much fun and such an amazing experience this year I'm just going to give you the high lights. I'm not going to try and describe every detail of every moment I was in Spokane. I would never be able to. You just can't fully explain how fantastic this show is.

This is something we are all going to be talking about for the next 12 months.

Not to mention.........I'm helping my mother get ready for her 45 years of accumulation garage sale this weekend.

It's going to be a lot of work!

We arrived on Thursday evening. Had a nice dinner, then walked down by the falls. If you haven't done this you should. It's beautiful. Not to mention a good way to walk off dinner.

Donna on the left, Michele on the right. This is part of my posse that went over to Spokane with me. WSU Laura and her mom drove separately.

Michele is my nurse friend whom I have been friends with since I was in the 4th grade. Donna and I met while working together 6 or 7 years ago and have stayed close friends ever since.

They were my posse last year too.

Donna is addicted to her G-Crack. I'm addicted to my Crackberry too but Donna is the only one who got caught on camera.

Friday Morning we got up early and headed out to Coeur d' Alene Idaho to check out Mary Jane Butters Farm store that has opened.

Donna and I have just recently become Mary Jane Butter fans so we really wanted to go check it out since we were so close while in Spokane.

Half hour in the truck........................

Here we are! It's so exciting!

We wondered, we touched, we took pictures, we purchased and we decided that one day we have to make it a point to attend one of her shows.

This cute Tear Drop Trailer was set up outside Mary Jane Butters store.

It's the Mary Jane Butters trailer that you can purchase.

It's very cute!

Then we ventured out of the Plaza and down the street where we came across

Coeur d' Alene Olive Oil Company.

AMAZING!

These are some fantastic oils. I purchased a couple and can't wait to use them. I got Blood Orange Olive Oil and Lime Olive Oil.

I'll let you know what I use them in. They were good just on bread!

This is Janie.

She not only provided us with excellent customer service but she was just a fun amazing woman. Stop in and see her when your in

Coeur d' Alene.

After a full day of shopping we decided to hit one of WSU Laura's favorite old college drinking spots. She was itchin for a Derailer.

The Iron Horse is where you can get the famous Derailer.

I don't think WSU Laura remembered this little cocktail was served in a BUCKET!

With a little help from friends................

It got polished off.

Timi and Donna.

No need to e-mail me and let me know I need a new bra. I see it! I'm on it!

Probably taking care of it as you are reading this.

After we left Coeur d' Alene we headed back to Spokane where I wanted to try and find the Riverside State Park. I had heard that The Sisters On The Fly were going have some of their famous trailer caravan there and I had to see it.

I have been an admirer of these ladies ever since I saw them featured on HGTV

about 6 years ago. I have been following their media ever since. I just recently read an article about them in Mary Jane's Farm Magazine.

I had to go!

My pictures aren't that great and it was a little awkward making Donna and Michele hang out the windows and take pictures while I was driving as slow and inconspicuous as possible through the public camp ground.

We were driving by Miss Cammell Lot trailer and she yelled at me to "park that truck, get out and come talk with them." I couldn't get that truck parked fast enough! It was fun to meet some of the ladies and chat with them about their group. I was all set to sign up!

Donna, Michele and I were discussing what our trailer themes would be and were we would start shopping for old trailers on the way back to the hotel.

***Side note** The Hubs is totally NOT on board with me getting an old trailer and him fixing it up so I can take off every weekend without him. I won't be doing this any time soon. Still just admiring from afar.

Saturday....................THE DAY!!!!

It's finally here!

WSU Laura and I are READY!

We have our aprons, we have our shopping carts and most of all we have our blog badges.

For those of you just tuning in........there was an organized blogger meeting while at the Farm Chicks. Kim at Camp Whimsy was the intital organizer of this event.

A again.........WHAT A BRILLIANT IDEA!

The line waiting to get in to the show on Saturday morning. This year wasn't so bad. No rain, more ticket sales booths, no vendor outside the entry door and it was just a lot nicer. Not to mention this year you could stand and visit with people in line.

We had the nicest group of ladies from Spokane and Salem Oregon. They were there celebrating one of the ladies birthday. They had come out to stay with another friend who owned a Bed and Breakfast. Now that's a friendship a girl needs!

These ladies were so much fun. We had a great time with them in line.

In front of us was another group of ladies that were from Edmonds. This was their first time to Farm Chicks and they were so excited they could hardly stand it. You could see waiting in line was killing them.

Hope they enjoyed it as much as we did.

My first group of blogger buddies I ran in to was Kal and Angie from Bella Country. I met them last year while they were admiring the shopping cart I had just bought at A Thing For Roses. Kal and I have maintained an e-mail friendship over the last year and were really looking forward to seeing each other again.


Kim from Camp Whimsy. The woman who started this whole blog badge party.

Some of the blog badge participants that we could round up for a group photo.

Laurie from Magpie Ethel

I was so bummed that I didn't get to chat with Laurie more.

I remembered her from last year because I had admired her cute shopping cart every time she walked by. Then this year.........I got to meet her but didn't get to chat much because I was acting like an idiot with excitement because she was the woman with the cute cart from last year.

This is my posse that I went with.

Donna, Michele, WSU Laura, Laura's mom Susan.

It was another fabulous weekend.

Lisa from A Thing For Roses and myself doing the soroity pose that WSU Laura taught us.
Lisa and I also met last year when I bought my shopping cart from her. We have developed a friendship from there.



Lisa and Isabel had a rocky start getting to the show and I was so happy to see them at the show.


Isabell at Maison Douce

Isabell told us some "spicy" jokes at dinner and we were still laughing about it on the way home Sunday.

Thanks Isabell!

Even more blog badge participants

WSU Laura

Mermaids of The Lake

Magpie Ethel

A Thing For Roses

Maison Douce

Camp Whimsy

Tinker Verve

Unexpected Necessities

Donna and I both got our Farm Chicks Cookbooks signed by Teri and Serena.

This was just as exciting as when I met Paula Deen.

That's another story for another day.

Kal I really did meet her.

After the show on Saturday we went to Chaps for dinner.

FABULOUS!!!!!

I can't say enough wonderful things about this resturant.

Food was fantastic

Atomosphere fantastic

Service fantastic

This is definatley a must drive out of your way to spot while in Spokane.

Wish I had pictures but I was too busy stuffing my face and laughing with

Joy, Teri, Lisa, Isabell, Donna, Michele, and Laura.

The Farm Chicks Show is something I look forward to all year long.

It's an amazing show.

Here are some other bloggers that I met but didn't get pictures with.

Go check out everyone's blog to see pictures and their stories from the show.

Queen of Tarte

Barn House

Annies

Duchess

Teresa Sheeley

Heart Rocks Home

Simply Stork

Jacquie Richel

Twiggy 59 Accessories

(I couldn't find a website or blog for her. I wish she did her accessories are fantastic)

I know there were other ladies I met and didn't mention. I'm so sorry if I missed mentioning you. I enjoyed meeting everyone and I'm still on a Farm Chicks High.

I could probably write more about this trip each week until next year.

Ok, my mother is calling me. I gotta go!