Company Soup

I never thought that football would make me miss home.  We went to another game with Jason on Friday, and this time Jody and Kian came with us.  The cheerleaders throw candy and Tshirts every time they get a touchdown, and Kian ended up with tons of tootsie rolls.  Needless to say, he got pretty excited about the whole thing, jumping up and down, cheering, yelling, running around with Jason's kids, nephews, and any other stray children he could find.  But it really did make me miss Oregon.  It wasn't really like Oregon, it was warm, there were only 12 kids on the field, they prayed before the game and announced that they were raffling off a rifle, but there's something about it...I guess it's mostly missing Dance Team.  It was homecoming week at OC, and I know that the Jets were dancing with the band, and Mac Attack was being crowned homecoming queen.  It's silly, because even if I was in Oregon, I wouldn't have been there, but it makes me miss them, all the same.
We hit an armadillo on the way home.  It was the first one I had seen.  Jody was surprised that Jesse would hit it on purpose, and Kian was very concerned, until he remembered that Armadillos have armor and therefore cannot die.  We also saw a sweet lightning storm that was happening to the West (maybe? I'm bad with directions) of us.  Kian called it a rainbow lightning storm, and it was pretty cool to watch.
Saturday morning Jesse went out to dig a hole for his pig bait.  He's had corn and yeast and koolaid and I don't even know what all else in a bucket fermenting for a couple days now, so we drove it out to one of the tanks (they call ponds "tanks" here) and dug a hole, but so far nothing has shown up.  We drove out again last night to check.
Jason and his brother in law were supposed to come out yesterday and shoot, but it was only about 60 degrees yesterday, and the wind was blowing pretty hard, plus it rained for a while, so the Texans opted out.  It is difficult to shoot with a strong wind, I guess.  So we ate pizza and played GTA, and they decided to come out today instead.
In their honor, we commited a cardinal sin and skipped church.  At about 9:30 Jason texted Jesse and said that he was on the way with 16 people.  Jesse asked if we could feed 16 people, because I had made a pot of sopa de maiz and had told Jason that we would feed them.  Well, my response was that you can always stretch soup, so I added another can of corn, some more milk and boullion, and called it good.  Shortly after, Jason said "Oh, did I say 16?  I meant 4."  He's going to have to learn not to joke about cooking for an army, because I will do it.  But that's ok.  We will have plenty of soup in the freezer for days when I don't feel like cooking.
Jody and Kian also decided to join us today, and Kian got to shoot an AR for the first time.  He was all over it.  Jason's daughter Ashley is 9, and is also pretty excited about shooting.  Jesse put a can of Tannerite under an orange cube and she shot it out from under in 1 shot, and it flew straight up into the air.  Nobody told her what Tannerite would do, and she was all confused about where it went; she wanted to shoot it again.
At the end of the day, everybody got to shoot stuff, stuff got blown up, Kian cried because he didn't want to leave, and Jesse and I sat down to a giant pot of company soup by ourselves.  We'll be eating it for a while.