with saturday being the last byu football game and the day that we had scheduled our progressive dinner we had to make some adjustments. so we started early and instead of doing a progressive dinner we did progressive...snacking.
first stop was in blackfoot at justin and amber's home. they fed us fried ravioli and steak, pork, chicken, and ham kebabs. they had plenty of food which is good because at the first stop we always eat ALOT. DELICIOUS!
second stop, shelley, at emily and brandon's. they served bacon-wrapped water chestnuts and artichoke dip served with chips. YUMMY!
third stop, back to idaho falls, at jarom and elena's. they served meatball subs with all the CHEESE you could ask for! SO FILLING!
fourth stop, ben and kaylin's for shui jiao's (pot stickers). even though we were all stuffed to the max we still managed to eat the 100+ pot stickers they produced! TASTY!
and, as tradition goes...dad was kind enough to take our family picture in front of our tree. brandon & emily; elena, jarom, kate, halle, carter, & alyssa; amber holding truman, justin, ogden, anna, & ellie; kaylin holding eli & ben
and, as tradition goes...dad was kind enough to take our family picture in front of our tree. brandon & emily; elena, jarom, kate, halle, carter, & alyssa; amber holding truman, justin, ogden, anna, & ellie; kaylin holding eli & ben
since my parents hosted the christmas dinner the night before we were kind enough to leave them off the rotation and made the final stop our house.
we were in charge of dessert and served individual servings of chocolate passion bowls in champagne glasses...topped with maraschino cherries! and...of course i got the recipe from kraftfoods.com so check it out. it was so yummy.
kevin, me holding wesley, & owen
kick-off was at 6pm so we can only imagine how busy the ladies were entertaining 20 kids for four hours. the night before we got together and built 21 graham cracker houses for the kids to decorate and the work paid off. they took great pride in their little houses! and the clean-up wasn't even close to how bad i feared it would be.
mom, jamis, natalie, owen, kate, the whole house building crew, and wesley
afterwards, grandma surprised all the kids with a new game, horton hears a who! and aunt nat was kind enough to lead this rowdy crew in a round or two.
what a fun and exhausting weekend!
3 comments:
I get to see the progressive ... snacking from your blog first!! Elena told me all about the plans. It sounded so fun, and now, it looked so fun. It's nice to watch such a huge group of people organize themselves and get the parties going.
Ugh....20 kids! That sounds like an ENORMONGOUS job! I hope those boys appreciate all of that hard work!
That is so cute! you guys are so creative. And I love the gingerbread houses idea. We used to do that and I forgot! Guess we'll introduce Kirk to it!
Looks like you guys had lots of fun! I hope you guys have a great Christmas!
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