Start of December

Well, I don't have much in the way of pictures from the last few weeks, but we have been busy getting prepared for Christmas and all the festivities involved. 

This last Saturday was our Ward Christmas Party and it was really a great success except for one thing. We had a beautiful program put on by a group called LDS Ambassadors. It was all about the first Christmas and had lots of beautiful music and songs. I'm on the Relief Society Activity Board or whatever it is called. Anyway, my job was to cut up some fabric and to make two big pots of Chicken noodle soup for the night of. I spent all afternoon cooking, and it took me a lot longer than I thought it would. Luckily, my mom came out to help cook and to watch Keldrie while I helped set up and take down the party.  I made a lot of soup. I think we decided it was at least 16 quarts of soup. Well, there was a communication error and I was the only one who ended up with more than just one crock pot full of soup.  One of the other ladies made two pots, but it was clam chowder and got burned while she tired to heat it back up. Our soup was the main dish, and we ran out very quickly. It was rough, but oh well. That was a long day, but well worth it. It was great to have the ward party be all about Christ and not so much about toys or Santa. 

The last few weeks have involved a lot of cooking and baking on my end. I blame pintrest. I have made two new recipes from pintest this week. The first one was called Cinnamon Roll Cake. It was so easy and amazingly delicious. I invited my little brother  over to sample it. Tyler loves cinnamon rolls and he loves cake. He said it was pretty much amazing. That made me feel good about it. Mat also has had several pieces. Keldrie told me it was Yucky. 

The cake as it first came out of the oven.

Keldrie helped me make the glaze for the cake. She loves to stir. Give her a spoon and a bowl of plain water and she is happy.  

The cake after we poured the glaze on. 

The other recipe we made was called Crescent Pepperoni Roll ups. Only instead of pepperoni, we used Salami, because we already had some. Matt and I devoured these last one night when we weren't able to have dinner until after 9:30. 

Since Matt has now seem what is going on on the Pintrest food page, he is very interested in if I have found any new fun recipes. So to all those who follow me on Pintrest, just know that Matt is now influencing the items I pin. 

We are still enjoying the Christmas season, but would it be too awful if we could actually get some snow? We lost our fence during the big wind storm, but the HOA has started to fix it. Keldrie is having lots of fun moving the mouse in our countdown calender each day. 

Hope every one's December is going well!