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About a month and a half ago, Paul came home from a church meeting and mentioned that the bishop (what we call the leader of our congregation) had asked if I would be willing to head-up the committee for our ward Christmas party this year. My first reaction was "No way!" but after some consideration of the fact that if I didn't do it someone else would have to and as I started to think about the other potential people in the ward to head the committee I realized that I was a very reasonable candidate since I have the fewest kids, I am a SAHM who-while busy-has enough time to tackle such a responsibility, my calling as gospel doctrine teacher isn't all the demanding, etc. So I said I would do it. I got really lucky in that I had an AMAZING committee of women who helped me put everything together and had super ideas and input. One of my committee members - my friend Hailey - pretty much took on all the decor herself when another committee member had to back out due to a surgery. We went with a loose Polar Express theme (tickets for invitations, a "believe" sort of message, and a train set for decorations) and it turned out really well. Hailey came up with beautiful centerpieces and arranged everything so beautifully. We were able to get 5 6+foot live trees for $15 each which we decorated with Christmas lights and then gave away at the end of the night. There is an older couple (actually, they really aren't all that old but all their kids are grown so that is what I really mean) in our ward who have beautiful Santa and Mrs. Claus costumes and they did a great job with all the kids. I was all about delegating for this party so I asked our Primary President to print Christmas coloring pages and order small boxes of crayons (like the kind you get at restaurants) for Santa to give out rather than candy canes since we had Santa come before dinner and I wanted the kids to have something to do before the food was served and not spoil appetites with peppermint sugar sticks. Clara did much better with mom and dad in the picture with her. I may look put together in this picture but I seriously was running all night long managing food levels and making sure the little program we put together happened, etc. I literally dashed from the kitchen and tore off my apron to take this picture, then headed right back in. Paul was such a huge help and played with Clara and engaged with our friends all night while I was all frazzled. We had a good turnout - we were planning for 350 and by my estimate (based on numbers of chairs that we put out) we had almost 300. The main dish was Barbeque Beef Brisket (my mom's recipe that she got years and years ago when we lived in St. Louis, MO from a guy in their ward who my mom always describes as "a bachelor"). It is SO easy and SO yummy and my mom has made this probably over a hundred times, especially when we have large dinner parties. I'm including the recipe at the bottom of this post. I pre-ordered 90 pounds of brisket from Costco (a full crate of meat actually) which meant that I was charged $3.99/lb instead of $5.99/lb (which is what they sell individual briskets for). Then we farmed out the cooking of the briskets along with the ingredients and recipes to various ward members since we needed a number of ovens but we wanted uniform results. It worked out great. We also had baked mac & cheese from Costco's deli - I seriously love this stuff but this was the one thing we had too much of, although my estimates weren't too far off. I bought 30 pans of it and we ended up with 6-8 leftover I think. For vegetables we had orange-ginger glazed roasted carrots and french green beans tossed with lemon juice, butter and sea salt. There were also rolls and for dessert we set up a table with hot chocolate and cupcakes. The cupcakes (chocolate/chocolate and white/white) were just from Safeway (a local grocery store) but they were actually quite good and I had ordered old-fashioned peppermint sticks to stick in them so that they would be "North Pole Cupcakes" and that made them look extra fancy. One of the families in the ward brought this incredible toy train set up for part of the decor which gave the kids something fun to look at before and after dinner. The Young Man in the blue jacket is Evan and he is our home teacher and made sure that the train kept operating in the event that little fingers derailed it. I had so much amazing help and I couldn't have done it without some of the women in the photos above. A number of people spent Saturday morning at the church helping to decorate, my committee members worked so hard getting things together beforehand, and we had such great help in the kitchen getting all the meat sliced as it was received and making sure the serving tables were never empty. It was EXHAUSTING being in charge of such a large event (remind me to never, EVER agree to taking on this responsibility again) but I was very pleased with how the evening turned out and that there was such a feeling of friendship and love and Christmas at the party. Barbeque Beef Brisket 5 lbs. brisket 2 tsp garlic salt, divided 2 tsp celery salt, divided 2 tsp onion salt, divided 2 tsp sugar, divided 3 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce SAUCE: 3/4 cup brown sugar 20 oz. hickory flavored barbeque sauce Moisten meat with Worcestershire sauce. In a little bowl, mix 1 teaspoon each of the garlic, celery, and onion salts, with 1 teaspoon of the sugar. Rub in dry ingredients. Marinate overnight. Repeat process with the remaining spices the next morning. Place meat in aluminum foil allowing plenty of room for meat to steam inside. Bake at 250 degrees for one hour for each pound of meat. Remove from oven and tear away foil. Pour off broth. Pour sauce over meat. Return to oven uncovered and bake one more hour at 350 degrees. Remove from oven and slice to serve. * All of the briskets we cooked were actually between 8-10 pounds - you just need to make sure to increase the amount of your sauce and spices accordingly.
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We were put in charge of our church or ward Christmas party this year. We needed to plan something with families and have it be for around 250 people. I immediately got on the internet and found on Sugardoodle a list of suggested Ward Christmas Parties. One caught my eye since we had just been in charge of the Pioneer Trek this summer and that was Christmas in Nauvoo in 1843 posted by Paige Moore. Christmas of 1843 was the last Christmas that Joseph Smith was alive and he recorded in his journal being woken up that morning by carolers and that he and his wife Emma hosted a dinner for 50 in the Nauvoo Mansion and that they had music and dancing all evening. It not only had the theme idea but it had a list of assignments for the various committees and a program and facts about old Nauvoo, Illinois. The first thing I wanted to add was a horse and carriage for the evening to set the stage for old Nauvoo. I had just used this wonderful company this fall for a Miss Utah County parade event so I contacted them and we got their Vis a Vis Limousine carriage. The carriage company, Burch and Sons is located in American Fork, Utah and they have a huge collection of wonderful carriages. There was a line-up for carriage rides all evening. One of my close neighbors was asked to play the prophet Joseph Smith. He even grew his hair out and styled it like Joseph's was styled in 1843. A costume was rented from Hale Center Theater. Nauvoo was famous for the beautiful brick homes the people built while they lived there so we printed out large rolls of red brick on paper and decorated the various "stores" we had around the church building. Different organizations in the ward were assigned to be in charge of setting up and running their "stores" and the Young Women organization went over the top with their charming Scovil Bakery. One of the leaders even brought over this charming cupboard. They made snowflakes and hung them from the ceiling. You felt totally transported as you entered their room. They were asked to have gingerbread cookies for the children to decorate but they took it a step farther and decided to create a bakesale and donate the funds they raised to needy families. I love the wooden cash box they had in their bakery. This charming tree was lit and in the corner with a darling banner hung above it. They even turned the chalkboards in the room into windows in the bakery and hung lights around them. You are looking out through this window! Isn't this an adorable idea. The round tables were set up with plastic tablecloths for the decorating of the gingerbread cookies. We printed off whitewashed wood planks for the Stoddard Tin Shop. Here the children could come in and make a punched ornament or necklace. You could hear the pounding of little hammers down the hall. The kids really loved this one too. These cute guys were all dressed in period clothing and having a great time showing off for the camera. The Red Brick Store was famous in old Nauvoo and we had the Elder's Quorum set it up like a store with barrels of peanuts and candy. Here you could bring toys and clothing and gently used items for the needy and drop them off. Back in 1843 large church meetings were held in "The Grove" or out under the cover of trees as there were no large church buildings. Here the children played pioneer games. Our postmaster was here to help people write letters or emails to the many missionaries we have from our ward serving around the world. One of those is my son who is serving in Seoul, Korea. The Bishop's Storehouse was a place where you could make donations of food in Old Nauvoo which would be shared with the needy so we had people bring food and products the Food and Care Coalition in town need to help the homeless. The Nauvoo Mansion was built to house guests and visitors in Nauvoo. We printed off stone blocks on paper to create an entry for it. The Mansion was the cultural hall or gymnasium at the church. And the stage was Joseph's room where he was seated writing in his journal. He was so great - he stayed in character the whole evening and children said, "Joseph is here, Joseph is here!" They wanted to be up on stage by him. We set up 24 long tables in a fan pattern and the tables were covered with red tablecloths and a wonderful roll of burlap. Each set of tables had 3 silk wreaths and 2 glass hurricanes and one metal and glass hurricane with artificial snow on the bottom of the hurricanes. The candles of course were electronic. The burlap ran down the serving tables too. I created two tall urns with evergreens and artichokes and lemons. All candles have to be battery operated in the church building for fire codes. You can see the tables beginning to fill up. We also set up chairs around the edges. Every seat was used. It was the best attended ward party we have had. You can also see a child standing up on the stage next to the desk. How adorable is that? We asked everyone to come in period clothing - at least no jeans for men and no pants for women. It really added to the atmosphere. The ward provided holiday ham and turkey and fresh rolls from Shirley's Bakery. Every family was asked to bring their favorite holiday side dish or dessert. The tables were stuffed with delicious food. As a follow up invitation, we sent out this "How to arrange a Christmas Dinner" published in 1847. It is fun to read through and see the traditional dishes mentioned. I don't think anyone brought turnips, boiled onions or dressed celery! My niece Shaunna did the designs for both invitations, the signs for the shop doors and the brick, wood and stone walls. She was a fabulous help! We had a group of carolers wandering down the hall. After dinner we had a short program that was included on the site I referenced. We added to it with a song that our Joseph (Del Moody) wrote about Emma and then he stood at the end and bore witness to Jesus Christ citing Doctrine and Covenants 76:22-24 "This is the testimony, last of all. that we give of him: That he lives! For we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the father." It was so powerful after the song about Emma and it brought tears to many eyes. These were our actors playing Porter Rockwell and one of the military officers who were part of the program. The choir sang several numbers in the program and the Young Women sang "Go Tell it on the Mountain". Many said it was the best ward Christmas Party they had ever been to. I hope if you need to do a ward party, and choose to do Christmas in Nauvoo, that this will give you some ideas and inspiration. Incidentally, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was also published on December 19, 1843. I had researched the costumes of the period and then I went production by Hale Center Theater in Salt Lake this year. Their costumes really followed the time period with their hairstyles featuring the sausage curls, the waistcoats and morning coats for the men and the women's dresses with lower and pointed waistlines . It was fun to see how they would have actually dressed up for a party in 1843. I will be posting this with Tablescapes Thursday Seasonal Sunday Weekend Wrapup
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Who doesn't love the Grinch? It's a Christmas classic! This year I am doing a Grinch themed WhoVille Grinch-mas party and have been having trouble finding Grinch items in the stores. So I went to work. Some of the ideas are mine, but I have also found some other amazing ideas around the internet. I have put together this collection for other Grinch fans out there. I also have another 50+ ideas about Harry Potter! Check it out here! Enjoy! If you want to learn how to make them for yourself, then click on the picture to take you to the link. Play Grinch Minute to Win it games with your family and friends. Here's the perfect easy craft project for your party. Make your leftover pumpkin into a Grinch head. Here's how. Or how about some Grinch legs popping out of your tree? And then there's a 3D Grinch hand that your can make. Look at it popping out of the picture frame! Print out a FREE WhoVille banner for your party! Or some napkin rings with a treat bag A printout Get everything that your need for your WhoVille feast by clicking here. Play Grinch Bingo at your party Make some yummy Puffcorn Chocolate Grinch Grub for your guests My encounter with the Grinch There are so many AWESOME Grinch ideas out there. Here are some that I have found on the web that I love! Serve up some Grinch Kranky treats. Delish show you how to make these adorable treats. How about making some darling Grinch stockings for your mantel? April Davis shows you how. Check out this wonderfully horrible ugly sweater idea from Big DYI. Wouldn't these ornaments look great for your WhoVille ceiling? These lights would also be adorable from Kitchen Fun. No Cookies For Santa! Darling! Found on Etsy. These ideas from Pinterest are just adorable! Have the entire family make a Grinch's Growing Heart ornament. Fun-A-Day show's you how. Dress up like a WhoVille. The Laughing Latte will show you how. Get this printable from Deviant Art. Pinterest also has this cute Grinch Wreath idea. Twin Dragonfly Designs has a great Pin the Heart on the Grinch game. Scribd put together this awesome Grinch jeopardy game. Sweeten Your Day Events has several ideas to help put on a Grinch party. If you need help drawing the Grinch, or would like to teach how to draw the Grinch Art Projects For Kids can show you how. The Keeper of the Cheerios can show you how to stack those presents with Who style! The Sweatman Family has this fantastic Elf on the Shelf idea! Of course the Grinch is not going to allow the elf to get the better of him! Thanks to Library Learners, the Grinch got even! TGLB has a great craft idea to make from popsicle sticks. Play learn grow has this great idea for Grinch slime. A must for any Who party. Grinch Cookies from Katrina's Kitchen. Thirsty? Have some Grinch punch from the Idea Room. How about serving your goodies off of this amazing tier tray found on Pinterest? Have a Grinch movie night! Get some great ideas from Everything's More Fun in a Tutu. Catch My Party has this great idea for a Grinchy heart gift. What a great way to great your WhoVille guests? This idea came from Pinterest. And you will definitely need a Grinch to steal your lights. Idea from Pinterest. A Grinch cake with a surprise heart inside from the Bearfoot Baker. Stink, Stank, Stunk from Pinterest. Stink, Stank, Stunk Spray from Pinterest Who Hash, free printable from Food in Literature Another great cookie idea from Princess and the Pea. Get this idea with several other cute Grinch ideas from Living Locurto. A Turtle's Life for Me put on a Grinch party with some adorable ideas. Give me some of that yummy Guacamole Grinch from One Ordinary Day. Don't forget the healthy snacks!!! Idea from RainingHotCoupons. This adorable sign is on Etsy. The host will need this incredible apron from Pinterest. Don't forget the Grinch hair from Inventor Spot. Is this the cutest ever? DIY Buddy shared this with us. Or is this the cutest ever? I can't decided. This image was found on Pinterest. What Who doesn't need to drink? Here is another great Pinterest idea. Holidappy has some cute Grinch color pages to help keep the kids busy. What an awesome boyfriend!! Themetapicture shared this image. Who's looking at you? Another great idea on Pinterest! I'm sure this simple idea from Pinterest can be easily done with pipe cleaners.
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Okay, my husband and I were actually put in charge of the Farmington Ranches 4th Ward Christmas Party - TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO! I figured I better post these pictures and share before I forget -- again. When I prayed and pondered over a theme for the party (I work best with a theme) I kept coming back to the idea of "Help the children come to know the Savior." We had about 250 primary kids at the time (3 nurseries!) so I took this inspiration very seriously. I then asked myself (and the Lord), "How can I make this about the Savior, and yet keep it fun for the kids?" The worst in my mind would be 250 bored little children packed into a warm gym. It had the potential of a runaway train. After many more days and weeks of praying (starting in September) I finally came to the theme of "In A Stable." I wanted to make the party about the kids and yet about our Savior. After the initial idea of a theme, I was blessed with 8 committee members (4 wonderful couples) and we set to work. We had one big planning/brainstorming meeting and the rest was done via email. Who: Everyone! Objective: Celebrate the birth of Christ, Fellowship, Missionary Work, Help children strengthen their testimony of the Savior. Budget: $1200 Flyer: I had a blue background with a silhouette of the stable, and all of the event details in white font. I forgot to save a copy of the hard copy to share, but here is the "banner" image we used on our Facebook Event page. Set-Up: We had a huge ward with a half-court gym. Thankfully, I had an engineer on my committee! I told him how many of each sort of table we had, then he measured the gym and came up with a blueprint of how to set everything up. Here are some photos of that... For decorations we bought rolls of plain newsprint paper from the local paper for $7 a roll. Then we re-used some red burlap from previous years as table runners (hand cut, "raw" edges). A lady in our ward had made little centerpieces for a RS dinner a few years back and still had these simple wood Jesus-in-a-manger pieces. We also found red glass votives in the storage closet, so we pulled those out and filled them with crayons from the library. In storage were also clear vases wrapped with red yarn and red "branches". My committee thought these would be a great accent and give a simple elegance to the room. The kids loved coloring on the paper while waiting for the food, by the way. We also took Hershey's kisses and spread them around on the tables just before everyone arrived. One of my committee members bought some extra red burlap and made four wreaths to hang on the two far ends of the gym. She also brought in one of her extra Christmas Trees and decorated it with traditional decorations and white lights. Menu: Our ward is so big, which is why our budget for this event was so large. We spent very little money on the decor (3 rolls of news print x $7 = $21, Burlap for wreaths = donated by our committee member (who planned to use them in her home after the ward party), and about $35 to print up about 300 invites (4x6 photo), which the Deacons delivered while they were out collected Fast Offerings. This left us a really good chunk of money for the food. We bought spiral hams, bagged salad, ranch dressing, potatoes, foil, dinner rolls, butter, sour cream, and shredded cheese - all from Costco. We were told that even though we had over 600 members in our ward, typically only about 350 come to the party (this is still THREE TIMES more than in my previous ward!). So, we planned for 375, just in case. A word to the wise. Plan on only half a potato, half as much sour cream, and about half the salad as what the serving sizes say. Little kids cannot eat that much. We had way too much of these left over - which we took to families in need. For dessert, we decided to do a Brownie Bar, which we asked ward members to donate. About 3 Sundays before the party, we circulated copies of 2 different sign-up sheets. 1 - asking for volunteers to help cook the potatoes at home and drop them off at the church by 5p. (We bought the potatoes and dropped off 2 lbs of potatoes and a roll of foil to each volunteer.) 2 - we also asked for volunteers to donate 1 pan of brownies UN-CUT, any type they wanted to bake. We asked for 20 people to sign up for this, but we had more than 30 women who did! Other Activities: It's going to sound like we had a lot of sign-up sheets. Well, we did. We ALSO had a sign up sheet for our Nativity Room. We set up the primary room with long tables covered in borrowed fancy table cloths. We asked for members who were willing, to bring in their nativity sets to display in this room. We provided little slips of paper, so they could put their name card in front of their nativity set. During the "Nativity Walk" (which I'll explain soon), we had one of our committee members "guard" this room to make sure no one touched any of the nativities on display. We also had a Nativity Art Gallery. I bought a few packs of 14x17 drawing paper. I then printed up on small strips of paper these instructions, which I taped to the back of each blank drawing paper page: Please have (or help) your child draw or color their rendition of a nativity scene. This can be free drawing, water color, markers, crayon, a sketch, or as simple as tracing a picture. Under their drawing, please include their name and their age. Return completed drawings to ___________ by [date]. These drawings will be on display in our Nativity Walk Art Gallery during our Ward Christmas Party. It was announced at the pulpit that every child ages 3-18 would receive this blank piece of paper in class to take home. About a week before the party, the Primary President and nursery workers allowed some of the children who might have been previously absent to draw or color their nativity picture. These drawings were hung in one of the hallways leading from the gym door down to the primary room. I was so fortunate to have some great helpers on my committee! I know this sounds like a lot of prep work, but when delegated, I honestly felt like I didn't do a whole heck of a lot. Here is how it all went down... Brownies and potatoes were dropped off in the kitchen and we had several helpers distributing 2 different types of brownies per dessert plate and place them in the adjacent YW room on tables. Potatoes were kept in a warmer. Just outside of the kitchen doors, we set up a serving station. We had a Salad Server (a gloved hand is a fast way to "dish up" salad onto someone's plate!) (dressing in bowls already on tables), a Ham Server (someone else was in the kitchen slicing it), a baked potato server (people could select "half" or "whole", butter & sour cream on tables), and a Roll Server ("one or two?"). After the opening prayer, everyone was instructed through which door they should go to retrieve their food. We tried our best to streamline this process and we were complimented by many, stating that ours was the fastest food service line of any ward party they had attended! It helped to have a kitchen "gopher" who went back and forth from the kitchen to the serving stations, replenishing needed items. After everyone was served, and mostly finished eating, we announced it was time for the Nativity Gallery Walk. They were told that talking was not allowed during the nativity walk. They were told they would walk through the Youth Gallery, and to please stop and enjoy the artwork in the halls. At the end of the hall, they would enter one door of the primary room, where they could view the nativities of some of our very own members, but no touching. Once they exited out of the other primary room door, they would continue to follow the hallway around to the the YW room, where they would pick up one plate of dessert per person, and then return to the gym to enjoy their dessert. They were reminded again, no talking. If they must speak, to please do so in a whisper. We had some soft music playing over the speaker from the chapel, which helped set the tone. One table at a time, they were dismissed through the southwest gym door and after one group was about halfway down the hall, the next table was dismissed. This worked out soooo well! The kids would point and smile as they saw their own artwork. It was fun to hear everyone take the no talking seriously too. Even though there were lots of excited whispers, it was reverent. (To help keep the flow of traffic through the designated doors, we had printed and hung "Please Use Other Door" signs on the doors we did not want them to use.) Once back in the gym, some of our committee members did a nativity puppet show to an audio recording of the nativity story and song. (I was busy in the kitchen, so I only popped in to take a quick picture, and therefore couldn't tell you what the story was, but you could easily do sock puppets to "The Friendly Beasts" recording if desired.) After the puppet show, we had the bishop add a few closing remarks and we also had him announce seconds on brownies and the children could take their pictures off the wall and take them home, then we had the closing prayer. So many people stayed to help clean up, it was wonderful! We started PROMPTLY at 6:30p and we were completely done with the activity BEFORE 8p! I was shocked at how quickly we managed to get everyone through the line. Seriously. We had advertised 6:30p-8:30p. But I think many were happy we were finished early as they wanted to get their littles home to bed. Here are some additional pictures: Nativity Walk Youth Art Gallery The Nativity Room The Brownie Room (older kids of the committee members LOVED helping in this room) Nativity Puppet Show Turn-Out: 350 people, give or take a few, judging by the fact nearly every seat was taken. Let me know if you decide to do something like this for your ward Christmas party! And good luck!
While unloading my car , preparing for "A Night in Bethlehem" ward activity....I noticed that we have finally received a little fall....in the parking lot no less....Beautiful still the same. I was asked to prepare one of the "tents/booths" for...
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Whew! IT's done and it was a success! Last night was our Church Christmas party. I was asked to be on the committee. We were a committee of 3 Me and my friends Julie and Dana. I was asked to be over the decorations. We chose Let It Snow! as our theme and chose the colors blue and white. Here are some pics and a little video I took. ( You can see the candle lights changing color. )I took before the party. This picture looks much darker than the room actually was. But we did turn out most of the overhead lights. Remember the strands of lights tied with tulle from LAST YEAR? We took the red tulle and reused them. It added so much to the ambiance. We also used wrapping paper (one roll cut in half) once again as a runner down the middle of the tables. It's such an easy inexpensive way to add color to the tables. Julie found these darling plates, napkins and cups at Sam's Club and they were absolutely perfect. Here is one of the centerpieces. VERY EASY to make. I got it all at Dollar Tree except for the ribbon which I got at Michael's and the rock salt that I got at the grocery store. First, There is a big dinner plate-sized snowflake laid flat on the table. On top of that is a 12" glass cylinder vase filled halfway with rock salt. Topped with a battery operated pillar candle (Yes, I got those at Dollar Tree.) A plastic snowflake hangs from snowflake ribbon tied around the vase. The candles are so pretty. They actually change colors. You can't see it in the pictures, but it shows in the video at the end of this post. There were 10 of these per table. We had 4 tables total each of which actually consisted of 5 long church tables. We put about 4 of these little dishes of snow on each table. The snow is actually cotton candy. I bought the cotton candy at Walmart. I made the little "Let It Snow!" tags by printing out the tags below and cutting them out and then gluing a Popsicle stick to the back. I got the little blue snowflake dishes at Dollar Tree. Print tags HERE. I cut the snowflakes at 11" using my Cricut. The small snowflakes are just the centers cut from the big snowflakes. I cut them out on white card stock and hung them by fishing line to strands of Christmas lights that Julie's husband Scott hung from hooks that were conveniently already there on the walls. This step took a lot of work (Thank you Scott.) but it was SO worth it. It set the mood for the whole thing and we heard many "oohs" and "ahhs" as people entered the gym. That made us VERY happy! You know how the kids eat so quickly and then get restless and start running around before the adults have a chance to finish? Dana had the brilliant idea of setting up a table with activities for the kids to do instead of running wild. As far as the program goes, Dana passed around a sign up sheet asking for volunteers. It was a nice program and the food was delish! Julie was in charge of that. Yes, we had ham, but it was moist and yummy. The hams came from Sam's club and we had several volunteers warm them and bring them to the church warm. We also had volunteers bake potatoes. We had YUMMY salad (recipe below) and a potluck dessert table. I LOVE THE PEOPLE WHO STAYED AND CLEANED UP! Many hands really do make light work!!! So glad I was able to help with this and also very glad it's done and I can move on. :) Here's the EASY and DELICIOUS salad recipe. It was a HUGE hit! Bagged salad ( iceberg lettuce, purple cabbage, carrots) pecans feta cheese canned mandarin oranges poppy seed salad dressing Toss together and serve. Come back soon,
While unloading my car , preparing for "A Night in Bethlehem" ward activity....I noticed that we have finally received a little fall....in the parking lot no less....Beautiful still the same. I was asked to prepare one of the "tents/booths" for...
