For the last several years, we have hosted a Christmas or New Year's Eve party with an international theme. We have loved this tradition and the kids have become very excited about it. This year with Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve being on a Sunday we found it a bit tricky scheduling the party. We finally settled on New Year Day - night. And the kids came up with the very fun idea of doing an international hamburger theme.
We made: apricot kissed turkey burgers, regular hamburgers, Korean burgers, Italian burgers, Greek burgers, and Southwest burgers and bratwurst and hot dogs. There were all sorts of toppings: 10 different kinds of cheese, multiple mustards, sauerkraut, lettuce, tomato, pickles, pesto, pasta sauce, horseradish, jalepenos ... you get the idea. If it could be a topping we tried to imagine it and have it there. And then we had traditional sides: chips, tater tots, fries, potato salad, coleslaw, and baked beans. We invited friends to bring the desserts.
This party was very heavy in the prep work. I spent hours in the days leading up to the party making and freezing mini burgers (we did slider sized patties so that guests could try multiple flavors). But it was a delightful evening.
Alas, the above pictures are all that I have of the night and they were taken by the two little girls in the first 2 pictures who stole my phone as the night was coming to an end. We had already put most of the tables and chairs away. Oh well, we will just have to rely on our memories for well, the memories.
I just realized that these pictures are out of order but the first Sunday in January was Samantha's first Sunday in Primary. She was so excited to go in. She was not sad or nervous at all. She has since become a bit sad about it but this past Sunday she gave the scripture for opening exercises and she was so big and brave!
She was even given this super cute crown!
The boys had scouts during Christmas break and so we took the girls for some roller skating fun!
Lily was skating on her own by the time the night was over!
This girl was so strong and did great in her hand me down roller blades.
I love that man behind that little girl! He is so amazing with our kids!
On another day of Christmas Break, I made all of the kids work on a sewing project.
Joseph sewed on his merit badges.
Lily worked on her costume for Destination Imagination.
Jon sewed on some missing buttons and patched a hole, then he helped Samantha with her sewing project.
Arabella finished a sewing craft from activity days.
There really was very little grumbling and groaning about the whole thing.
And this is a picture of Peter with the amazing cobbler he made for us one Sunday night in early January. This man has skills in the kitchen. He is so quick to meet my needs and wishes. He is my Wesley- "As you wish!". It seems that all I have to do is ask. I hope he knows just how much I love and appreciate him. He is really a hard person to spoil with a surprise but someday I will have the perfect surprise and he will feel spoiled and I will feel like I have begun to repay his wonderful love and service to me and our family.
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