All you can eat salad bar....

So I know this is totally going to be a long post, just consider yourself forewarned. I really have just not kept up with it and had about 70 pictures on the camera. So here you go.

For New Years Eve we had the Goode's over for our special dinner that we do of all appetizers. It was so much fun. I actually made more thinking we wouldn't have enough food. Boy was I wrong. For dinner we had: fried mozzarella sticks, potato skins, chicken wings, hot spinach artichoke dip, veggies, fruit dip with toasted cinnamon sugar tortillas, stuffed mushrooms, wrapped lil smokies, and nacho cheese dip and chips. I think that is everything....oh, martinelli's and raspberry gingerale. It was absolutely delicious, especially considering that we had several things that nobody has ever made before. This picture is after most of us were done eating, except Roland (I think this was his second time back) and Adie who is my bottomless pit. Wow, did all of us over eat.

We also carried on the tradition of clown ice cream cones. But seeing as how there are no Baskin Robbins nearby, and we are cheap, we made our own. It was so much fun but the kids didn't really understand how to eat them. It was funny. So here is how they turned out, and all the kids eating theirs.

This snow fell in all one day sometime after Christmas. Idon't remember what day. Then it just kept snowing. We had like constant flurries for about a week or so. It was crazy!

And we had the coolest icicles which after I took the picture, we knocked them down. And I seriously mean Eric out on a chair with a hammer knocking everything down so it didn't break our gutters off. We couldn't even get the Christmas decorations down until just a couple of days ago when all the ice and snow melted off of our porch railing.

We went to a party that our friends the Moellers had called "fry on the pounds" where they deep fryed a turkey (which is really good) and then told us to bring anything that we wanted to try deep fried. It was so much fun. We had battered french fries, fried ice cream, and all kinds of goodies. Here are some of the other things.

fried cheese sticks

battered and fried oreos (the kids loved them)

and we also had deep fried pineapple dipped in a butter and brown sugar concoction which was actually really good I thought. But we could all feel not only our pores clogging up, but our arteries as well, so we stopped eating around 4 and we didn't eat the rest of the night.

And this is what our kids looked like on the way home.