gosh - we got dumped on again this weekend. brock isn't feeling well today so one of us has to stay home with him so steve & i flipped a coin to see who was going to stay home ... and it was me! steve & the kids left for church & brock is asleep ... i'm thinking perfect nap opportunity!
we had a GREAT weekend. first of all, we had our church christmas party friday night which we were in charge of the food. it turned out great & we are SO glad it is over. We had:
black forest ham (Sam's sliced it for us - 135 lbs. of ham is ALOT of ham!)
fabulous potatoes:
8-10 large potatoes (grated), 2 cups cheese, 8 oz. sour cream, 2 cans of cream of chicken soup, crushed cornflakes on top. bake at 350 for 45 mins.
glazed carrots:
2 lbs. carrots - steam then add glaze (1/4 lb. butter, 1 cup brown sugar & fresh ginger root - boil then pour over carrots). SO delicious!
pineapple/cherry salad:
1 can cherry pie filling, 2 cans crushed pineapple(drain well), 1 can sweetened condensed milk, 1 tub cool whip. almost good enough for dessert.
yummy rolls (costco makes fresh daily - totally homemade without the effort)
pumpkin pie
choc. chunk brownies
It was a bit stressful trying to purchase, prepare & have it hot all at once - but we pulled it off. We had planned on 275 & had lots of ham left over. i asked 4 different people how much ham should i get - everyone said 1/2 lb. per person. i questioned it because i thought that seemed like too much especially with all the other food. but, i went ahead & got 1/2 lb. per person afraid if i got less i would run out & it was way TOO much! next time, i would plan on 1/4 lb. per person. the carrots were everyones fav - even the kids came back for seconds. we also had the stage as bethlehem & had costumes for wisemen, mary, cradle for "baby", angels, etc. we had families come up & dress up & I took pictures. they turned out great & would be a fun christmas card picture (too bad i didn't think to get out family's picture taken - things were just too hetic for me to think about it). we also had santa come - he was the best santa ever. he did magic tricks & juggled for the kids - he was fabulous! all the kids thought he must be the real santa as he had christmas magic! we got home at 11ish & steve went out to shovel the driveway as we got about 6 inches of snow during the party. Dallin (our neighbor) had just got a snow blower earlier that day, came over & did our driveway for us - THANKS Dallin! It was very nice of him as it was late, COLD & our driveway is longer than it appears to be! We had both cars full of dishes, food, decorations, etc. from the party & no energy to mess with it. i was SO tired. we knew we had to get all the table linens washed & returned by noon Sat. we had 1/2 of them & our frineds the Park's took 1/2 of them. About 11:30, Steve & Bret decided to just take the linens to a laundrymat & just get them all done. i didn't want steve to go as it was a blizzard outside but i knew i didn't have the energy to do them either. so i loaded him up with detergent & lots of quarters. he did not get home until after 3 am! they had a hard time finding a laundrymat open & once they did i think they realized washing, drying & folding 40 table clothes took longer than they thought.
we woke up Sat. morning & the power went out. we had no power for about 2 hours. of course, the kids thought it was fun & i was just fearful of getting cold. Bryan came to help with our driveway & jake ended up going with him on his 4-wheeler to do some other driveways. jake thought it was a blast especially when bryan got stuck & had to push it. we asked jake if he helped push & he said no, but it was fun having bryan push him too (thanks Bryan :)
steve & i went to the byu/michigan state game. it was a GREAT game even with BYU giving the game away at the end- i love basketball! it has been a while since we've been to a game. we use to go the see the jazz play but i hadn't gone to a game in a long time!
we are heading over to mom's today - she had knee surgery on wed. & is doing well. we have lots of leftovers to take her & the kids want to see her. i had hoped of getting a nap squeezed in but after typing out our dinner menu i think i am ready for some leftovers myself :) i LOVE leftovers more than anything. in fact, when we go to dinner - i usually will order more than i will eat just so i can take home a box of leftovers for the next day.
have a great week!
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Are you guys on the activity committee? Are you still in primary too! We had our Christmas party last night. The Bishop is out of town and called Scott to give the "Bishops Message". We were thinking, "isn't that what the counselors are for?" Your menu looks good, I think I will try the carrots for Christmas day. It seems like I made that salad a few years ago and Scott loved it but everyone else thought it was too sweet. What did you think? Should I give it another try again this year? I need a new fruit salad recipe.
carrots are super easy & so yummy! i prefer the pretzel salad but was not going to attempt making that for 275 people! all the kids really liked the fruit salad. yes, steve & i are on activites commitee. i also am bear den leader.
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