Peanut Butter Fudge

November 20 was National Peanut Butter Fudge Day. I made some.

November 21 was National Stuffing Day. I made some.

Celebrating with Chocolate... Again

June 16 was National Fudge Day.  I went to Girls' Night and brought homemade fudge- almond joy fudge.  Yumm.  There were leftovers so my family got some, too.

June 18 was Father's Day.  I didn't take pictures but the kids had wrapped little peanut butter cups in foil and while Jeremy was taking a nap and I was making dinner, they created a trail from where he was sleeping on the bed through the hall and the living room, into the kitchen and over to the freezer.  Inside the freezer was a bag of Reese's Pieces that said Happy Father's Day on it.
Jeremy woke up because he shifted in his sleep and knocked some of the peanut butter cups off the bed.  The kids had surrounded him while he was sleeping.
He enjoyed what the kids did for him.  Good job, kids.  And good job, Jr., for coming up with the idea.  You have such great creativity.

Christmas Eve

Well, today was a big day just getting ready for Christmas.  I went out this morning for some quiet time.  I took some time for prayer and personal scripture study, things to invite the Spirit.  I also enjoyed looking at the snow covered mountains in the morning light.

I've been grumpy lately and the whole family has just been having trouble fighting and yelling and being mean to each other.  But not today.  When I got home, everyone was working especially hard to be nice to each other.  The kids were quick to say, "I'm sorry."  They did better at explaining why they were unhappy about something.  We all tried extra hard not to raise our voices unless it was absolutely necessary.  "No!  Don't touch that, Lucky."  It was much better because everyone put the effort in.
Lucky and Jr. helped me make breadsticks for our big Christmas Eve dinner.

The kids helped Jeremy decorate the tree. 

Jeremy made peanut butter fudge the other day and we all got to have some today.  Yumm.

The kids watched The Muppet Christmas Carol while Jeremy and I finished preparing dinner, including our traditional Sprite with candy canes.

So much food.  What a blessing.

In the evening we had our Christmas Eve program and scripture study. 

Before that, we hung up our stockings by the fire and danced to The Piano Guys Christmas music.

After opening presents from my visiting teachers, the kids had some pie and put out a cookie and a glass of milk for Santa.

After the kids went to bed, Jeremy finished decorating the tree. 

That's how our Christmas Eve 2015 was.  How about yours?

Captain Orange Veggies Fudge

June 16.
Captain Picard Day.  We didn't watch any Star Trek, but Jeremy and I joked about telling the kids to "make it so" when they wanted to help with things.

National Fudge Day.  The kids did help me make fudge.  The recipe came from the June/July 2015 issue of FamilyFun Magazine.  Creamsicle Fudge.  Yum.  Oh, and I just realized something.  The recipe says to refrigerate the fudge for the final time before eating it.  I put it in the freezer.  Maybe that's why the pieces came out of the pan like this.

Oh well.  I just put the rest of it in the fridge and maybe it will be easier to get out in the morning.  Still tastes great, though.  Also, the recipe says to take it all out of the pan before cutting it into pieces and I only wanted to take a few pieces out for pictures.  That's fine, though.

No Orange Clothes Day.  None of us wore orange clothes.  Although 3 of us wore red shirts, which is more of a nod to the classic Star Trek series than Next Generation.

Fresh Veggies Day.  I made sure we had fresh carrot sticks and celery sticks to go with dinner.

Rebellious

June 16 is No Orange Clothes Day.  And my rebellious 4 year-old refused to change his shirt.  Sigh.

That's okay though, because June 16 is also Fudge Day and it's Captain Picard Day.

Through fun and facebook, Jeremy and I were able to sync up and watch Star Trek First Contact at the same time with a friend in Oregon.  Another friend (in California) joined us later in the movie.  And synced up his movie so he was watching it at the same time.  It wasn't that hard for him to find out where we were in the movie, because Jeremy and Corey (our friend in Oregon) kept quoting the movie and commenting about it on facebook when things happened.  Marc (in California) also joined in the quoting, so after it was all over, we could look at a bunch of quotes from the movie with comments to go along.

Oh, and I made fudge for Jeremy and me to eat while watching the movie.  It was from the recipe on the back of the Western Family evaporated milk container.  "Old Fashioned Fudge."  Corey said he had fudge to eat while watching as well.

That was fun.
Jeremy thinks it would be fun to do this again.  Maybe have a party with several people/households across cities and states.  Everyone syncs their movie to watch at the same time.  And of course it's fun to have comments throughout the movie, just like watching in the same room.  But no pausing the movie allowed.


Anyone interested in participating if we set that up some time?