New Soup-er Sunday Funday Tradition

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I'm starting a fun new tradition for this fall/winter football season. You may already know this about my hubby Mike but he lives for and loves NFL football and soup. If these things were available at all times for him he would be a happy guy so I'm doing my part to combine these loves of his and went ahead and made this into a challenge for myself. My challenge is to make a new soup every Sunday this football season. That means 17, count 'em, 17 soups! I'm 3 down so far. I am gladly accepting suggestions for future soup ideas! I am going to try not to repeat too often, but it wouldn't be the end of the world if I had to.

Week 1: Chicken Tortilla Soup (I created my own recipe which turned out delish!)

Week 2: Vegetable Beef Stew (I made 5 gallons in my favorite giant soup pot)

Week 3: Chili (my own classic recipe)

Xena Pupdate

Believe it or not our little puppy is not such a little puppy anymore!

Xena had a great summer and continued and continues to grow every day. One highlight of her end of summer was a camping night with us at Lake McBride which included much romping through the woods which left her and especially her ears covered in tiny little green burrs (3 hrs of combing and cutting fur later....) and sleeping in our tent with us. She also spent lots of time digging in and eating mud from the puddles in our backyard.

She is approaching 6 months old at the end of this week and has already lost her baby teeth and currently seems to be going through a bit of a rebellious stage (one book I read called it the equivalent of a human hitting their teenage years) This outta be fun!!!