Super Food Sunday

This is what I was doing in Gospel Doctrine today:

Making lists.  Isn’t that what YOU do during Gospel Doctrine?  yeah, Damon doesn’t either. 

The kids look forward to this day all year.  The day that we have junk for dinner:  Super Bowl Sunday.  Each of the kids chooses an appetizer to make and they get to prepare it and make it look pretty on a plate (the best part).  It’s a bit chaotic, but lots of fun.  If it were up to Nolan, we would do this every night for dinner. 

This year, we had an unintended party at our house.  You know, to celebrate the Sabbath.  We’d planned on having our own little (yeah, not really) family thing like we’ve done the last several years, but it kind of turned into something else.  I think it started when Aimee S. (that’s for you, babe) called and invited herself and her family over.  Yeah, come to think of it, that’s exactly when it started.  I’m totally into having people over, right up my alley, so of course I said, “Totally.  Come on over.  We’ll have plenty of food (no lie- you’ll see).” 

When I got off the phone with her, I was kind of excited.  This will be fun, I thought.  So I did something totally crazy (for me) and called some other friends of ours that live a few houses down, the Colletts.  They were all-game.  Yikes.  What have I done? 
“Mom, we’re not going to have enough food for us to eat!  You always invite everyone over!” (guess who?)  um, whatever, elli.

I sent one of the kids up to quickly clean the bathroom (and then sent Damon up after it was “done” so he could do it again) and had Jillian (yep, she came too) double the chocolate fondue.  Then, I helped all the kids with all their appetizers and we had a party.  on a Sunday. 

it went something like this (in table-format because that’s how damon makes me do it now so he doesn’t have to fix it for me later when all my pictures are covering up my text):

	veggies/dip:  Nolan and Jillian (see the blurry thing on the left?  that’s someone’s hand stealing an olive) fruit tray:  cut up by Elli, arranged by Jill (doesn’t it look awesome?)
	chocolate fondue:  made by Jillian BBQ meatballs:  made by Nolan and Jillian Sunchips:  dumped into the bowl by Savannah caramel apple cheese dip:  made by Elli stuffed mushrooms:  started by Emma and Ray, finished by me. 6-layer dip:  started by Jill, finished by me. graham crackers, pop donated by S. family IZZE sodas and a {better} 6-layer dip brought by Colletts.
	our set-up:  a borrowed Microsoft projector hooked up to our Tivo.
	one of the things my mom complains about every time she visits me:  food waste.  We recycle it into our yardwaste container.  my mom thinks having 3 different types of waste (garbage, food recycle, paper/plastic/glass recycle) is overwhelming.  i think it’s awesome.  saves me money.
	this is why i really “invited” aimee s:  she always feels the need to clean.  weird- huh?
	in full swing…
	Nolan was practically drinking the chocolate fondue from his bowl.  i had to put a kabosh on the fondue-eating.
	sara and richie (sara reads my blog; she knew to smile for this pic)
	troy and aimee-  (doesn’t read my blog)
	richie brought 3-d glasses;  i think he was the only one who actually watches football and knew about them.
	these glasses were to hide what troy was really doing:  sleeping.
	savannah’s the only one that actually stayed upstairs to watch the game {what?  my mom’s letting me watch tv?!!}
	the rest of these pictures were captured by the ever-talented Raymond.  enjoy…
	did you know damon’s a giant?
	the red on top and bottom?  “Ray, get your fingers off my lens!  Ray!”
	a collett
	a baby collett’s head
	it’s his real hair
	me- over-exposed.
	jill (Ray’s girlfriend)
	aimee s.
	richie’s head
	ray posed us for this picture.  “dad, go like this [arm around my shoulders] to mom.  put your heads together.. yeah, like that” click.
	the stuffed mushrooms, gone: 1 lb sausage, cooked 8 ozs cream cheese combine. fill about 40 large mushroom tops.  bake @ 400 for 20-25 mins. the best.

and the best part?  the colletts left 2 bottles of IZZE at our house.  sweet.

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