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Special Family Events
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RED DINNER 2010
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GREEN DINNER 2010
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A St. Patrick's Day Green Dinner where everyone had to write a funny Irish limerick, and eat all kinds of 'new' GREEN food. It was yummy, too!! Check it out!
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Easter 2010
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Something Special
Try something different than the traditional painted Easter egg. These cute Bunny Cake Pops are sure to be a hit with everyone! And the Rice Krispie eggs were the ‘bomb’! [more] |
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WHITE DINNER
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This year, because we had SO much snow, we also had a WHITE Dinner. Yep! All white food and including a white dessert!! What fun. We cut out snowflakes, had a snowman drawing contest and counted all the snowmen at Grandma's house!
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GREAT PUMPKIN FEAST
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We've had The Great Pumpkin Feast as an alternative to trick or treating on Halloween for many years. It consists of an afternoon of fun and outdoor games for the entire family. The group is divided into teams and everyone is put on a team, regardless of age (and no husbands and wives are ever on the same team!) Candy is the treat or prize for all of the games. Following the games is a great feast -- a prelude to Thanksgiving... [more]
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More Fall & Thanksgiving Ideas |
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. . . such as Ghosts on a Broomstick, Cider Creme Punch, Cheese Pumpkin, Bag of Harvest Blessings, and Marshmallow Turkey legs! [more]
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Christmas Tea and other great family ideas
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Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without having a Christmas Tea at Grandma's house. This is a special occasion where everyone gets dressed up and puts on their best manners. The afternoon is spent talking, laughing, eating and reading Christmas stories in our candle-lit dining room. [more]
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| The month of December is usually filled up with my speaking engagements.The only family events that happen are the Christmas Teas for the children and our wonderful celebration of Christmas Day together.
I always bake too many cookies and we end up eating them til March! This year I found a recipe for a wonderful new cookie called Cherry Roll-Ups that we all loved and they were ‘fun’ to eat. Throughout the year I’ve make all kinds of cake pops and Christmas was no exception. The Christmas Tree Cake Pops were a hit and easy to make. It’s sort of like eating a piece of cake and a piece of chocolate all at the same time. And who could turn their nose up at that? In addition, I tried another kind of ‘bark’ candy. I simply melted white chocolate, stirred into it some crushed candy canes, poured it out in a pan and broke it with pieces when it was hard. Delicious! And there were enough Hank’s Root Beer reindeer left over from the Christmas Tea to pass around as we opened presents! The girls wanted water, however, so they could take their reindeer home!! Such is a Merry Christmas and Joy to the World for the birth of our Savior! [more]
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Cherry Roll-Ups 1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese 1/4 c. butter 1/4 c. shortening 1/3 c. confectioners sugar 2 c. flour 1 (16 oz.) jar maraschino cherries with stems, drained and patted dry with paper towel Mix ingredients together for dough. Roll out and cut into strips 3-inches long and 1-inch wide. Lay cherry on dough and roll up and seal end (stem will be sticking out 1 end of dough and you will see the bottom of the cherry on the other end). Lay cookies on lightly greased baking sheet. Bake at 375 for 15 minutes. Remove and cool. Once they are cool, the cookies will stand up and you can pick them up by the stem to pop one in your mouth. Pretty neat!! |
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EXTRA! Veggie Flower Centerpiece
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   Thanks to a friend -- Maryann -- for her creative EDIBLE centerpiece. This was a home-school co-op project and certainly too nice not to be shared with everyone. Take any size basket--depending on the size of the bouquet you want to make and fit a piece of styrofoam or florist oasis in the bottom. The basket itself can be trimmed with ribbon, bows, etc. The vegetables used in this one are celery, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, red and green peppers and radishes. Parsley leaves are used as a 'filler'. The veggies are cut in small pieces and pushed on thin skewers. The skewers are then pushed in to the styrofoam in the basket. You can go as far with this idea as your imagination will take you. Thanks, Maryann -- I love it!! |
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