Cousin Oby

My sister and her family had not made it up to see Toby due to busy schedules.  So we planned a fun day for Wednesday to let Carla, Ciara, and Mattison meet Toby.  Evidently, the weekend of Thresherman's, Mattison was calling her new cousin, Oby (leaving out the T).  It was precious! 

 Mattison, like Shelby, liked holding Toby, but only for a minute or two and then she was on to the next thing!

Carla is a very organized and well prepared person. She often times makes multiple meals and puts them in the freezer. This is something that I have never really been in the habit of doing, with the exception of lasagna. So we planned to do some food preparation as an "activity" during their visit.

The girls played in the living room and we proceeded to make a double batch of mini pizzas, 2 tater tot casseroles, an up-side-down pizza bake, 2 pounds of meat balls, 2 pounds of meat loaf, 2 9x13 cake pans of chicken enchiladas, and 2 chicken pot-pies. I also browned 2 extra pounds of ground beef that went to the fridge/freezer for easier meal prep in the future. Needless to say, we are going to have several nice meals from the work we did.

One of Ciara's requests was to play with the kitties.  We didn't do that until after supper, but all the girls had fun with the kitties!

 Good-bye was drawn out, but involved lots of kisses - for Toby!

 We happened to get 4 of the kids on the couch together.  Not everyone would sit together and look at the camera, but they did sit long enough to get a a couple pictures.

We had lots of fun, made sevearal new dishes for the Hofmann Family, and enjoyed each other's company!