While We're Talking Traditions...

cHoCoLaTeS!!

 

Our two-day chocolate extravaganza went off without a hitch!  Me, Stacy, and my mom (with my dad as our personal assistant).  Me and Stacy each make two batches of fondant ahead of time, while my mom makes the caramels.  We meet Thursday a.m. the week after Thanksgiving.  We roll the fondant, and start dipping the first day.  In the evening, we go out to dinner, and watch a movie at home and pretend we're little kids again, and make our parents take care of us!  The next morning, we finish dipping, counting, and boxing!  The rest is history!  Really, they disappear fast :)

 

 Half-dips

 Peppermint Patties

 Black Licorice Caramels

 Snowballs

 Vanilla

 Nut Clusters

 Almond Joys

 Double Chocolate

Nougat

 Almond

 

We're not ALL business...

Mom needs a little work on her "Kissy Face"!!  

The Final Product

Signed, Sealed, Delivered!!!

Nutcracker Tradition

And so it continues....

Our annual Nutcracker tradition.  We get dinner at Noodles & Company, then head over the Clytie Adams Nutcracker at Weber State University.  Always something to look forward to!

Art Show

Anyone who knows my dad knows his obsession with art.  His own dad was an artist, and my dad picked it up later in life and hasn't put it down since.  He has painted hundreds of canvases and this year my sister Julie had the great idea of having an art show at her house for him to display and sell his own art.  Me, Stacy, Julie and my mom all joined together to make the night a special one.  Catering, live music, displays, lighting, invitations, etc.  It was a good night.

 

 

I even sang a song with the guitarist..."Dream a Little Dream". 

 

 

Brotherly Love

Kaysville Brown

Logans sport of choice has been soccer for as long as I can remember. He dabbles in basketball, and even did baseball a little, but soccer was his thing. We have kept him on his Bountiful team even though we moved to Kaysville because he had such a great thing going. Same coach and team for years.  

Well, the coach decided to call it quits so he could coach his other son, so the team was dissolved.  Logan tried out for one competition league, but didn't make it :(  We were at a crossroads, so Logan decided this would be as good of time as any to try football.  To be honest, I was more than a bit concerned.  #1, Logan didn't seem aggressive enough for that kind of contact sport, and #2, All these boys have been playing since they were 8.  I felt like he was a little to old to "try it out", but he was sure, so we went with it.  Football is a draft so there are three coaches for his age group.  Logan was picked by coach Toone.  I was re-thinking my support when I saw him on the line against boys twice his size.  I nearly ran on that field to whisk him away to safety! 

 

It turned out to be a really great thing for Logan.  Great coaches, great team, great kids! 

The league started with 64 teams, cut to 32, then 16, then 8, then 4, then 2!!  Logan's team made it to the mini bowl held at Weber State University, where they fought a good fight, but were unfortunatley defeated :(  But a huge accomplishment, nonetheless.

WAY TO GO KAYSVILLE BROWN!!