Joseph in Technicolor!

We have some of the most awesome friends ever! When I was out VTing at the beginning of this month and Faith told me that Katie was going to be in the Enderlin Production of Joseph, I knew we had to make it out there. We love to adopt ourselves into the Lueck family anyway we can. They are awesome! They spoil us when we go out (not that that this the reason we go but it sure makes us feel special)!

We went out a bit early to eat dinner. Micki is a fabulous cook and the food was excellent. We totally made pigs of ourselves but it really was soooo good! She made us ribs, the best potato salad ever, fruit pizza, baked beans, chips, and the BIGGEST hotdogs you have ever seen in your life!!! Our kids love the big hill and playing with Katie & Ellie (and now they love to hold baby Scout)! Brett and I love visiting with Micki, Faith and Steve. (We missed Chet cuz he was out of town) They are so easy to laugh & visit with. Thanks so much for dinner, Micki! Yummmy!

Enderlin is such a cute little community where everyone knows everyone. [It's about 50 minutes SW of our home] They did a fabulous job at the production of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. The set was awesome, costumes were amazing and they sounded great! A perfect performance for our kids to experience Joseph for the first time. Way to go, Katie! You did an awesome job!

Remember the spoiling part??? Well after the play, we walked to the local Ice Cream Shop where Micki treated us to dessert. So yummy! It was a bit chilly cuz the wonderful ND breeze picked up but it was delicious!

Thanks for letting us come out guys! You are awesome!

A Whole Lot o' Baby!

A big huge (or itty bitty) Congrats
to a bunch of my ward family this week!

3 new babies joined our midst this week!

Congrats to the Friederichs, the Brady Fam and the Potters!

So fun!

Smørbrød Partay (pronounced Smurd-a-bra)

We had our Annual Smørbrød Partay tonight. It's become a fun little tradition to have the Neutebooms, Friederichs and Ironroads (due to procrastination and miscommunication they didn't come this year) to our get-together every December. I love that I can carry on a tradition from when I was growing up and share it with my Fargo family! We started late this year so that Steve could make it after work. It was so fun to have them all. We ate and played and visited until almost 11 pm. Wowzers- time flies when you're having fun! ;)

We always have tons of Scandanavian food and desserts. There's open-faced sandwiches of every kind. This year the kids helped us make all of them. We made ones with crab salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, goat cheese, tomatoes and egg, ham, turkey, chicken, american cheese, and pepper-jack cheese. We love trying all the different breads. We had wheat, white, pumpernickel, rye, marble rye, and cracked wheat. Our favorite by far was the Marble Rye. Yum! For dessert I, of course, made Krumkaker. We love it! Justice helped me eat all the one that didn't quite work out! LOL! I didn't burn the Berlinikranser this year so that was a bonus! I really wanted to make Goro but couldn't make myself spend the money for the Iron this year so I bought some Pizzeles instead. Close enough, right!? I also added Walnut Brownies this year since we always had those growing up as well. Pretty good stuff, I must say!

The kids all played awesome as usual. And we had a fabulous time visiting and laughing and listening to Christmas music by the "Open Fire" [I found this amazing DVD this year that turns your TV into a Fireplace- I'm so excited!!!!]

Thanks for coming guys!

We sure luv ya! See ya next year!