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Photo Credit: Britt Laeger

About two weeks before the Super Bowl Tim sends out a map of the stadium to all the guests and everyone signs up for a few slots so we know what to expect.  He made the slots to fit a disposable pans for easy clean up and also easy transport if people want to bring it already in a pan.  For example one of the items was hot artichoke dip and she just baked it right in the pan and brought it.  (And boy was it delicious)

Photo Credit: Tim Friesen

Speaking of foods, here is the list of all the foods that were included (in no particular order):

1. Bacon Wrapped Smokies
2. Buns (for pulled pork)
3. Fruit Snacks
4. Chicken Nuggets
5. Pulled BBQ Beef
6. BBQ Meatballs
7. Fruit (grapes/orange slices)
8. Swiss Cake Rolls
9. Pizza Tots
10. Veggies (peas/peppers/carrots)
11. Homemade Potato Skins
12. Hot Artichoke Dip
13. Doritoes
14. Pretzels
15. Cheese Balls
16. Lime Chips
17. Guacamole
18. Jalapeno popper dip
19. Peanut butter Cream Cheese Dip
20. Cotton Candy Trees
21. Brownies
22. Peanut Butter Cookies
23. Shrimp and sauce
24. Bacon wrapped cheese sticks
25. Dips for veggies
26. Oreo balls
27. Frosted Rice Crispy treats (the field, of course!)
28. Spanish Rice
29. Shredded Red Chile Chicken
30. Salt and Pepper Potatoes
31. Baked Beans
32. Monster Cookies

Photo Credit: Britt Laeger

Photo Credit: Tim Friesen

Photo Credit: Britt Laeger

The cool new addition to the stadium this year was the “big screen TV’s” that Tim added to each side.  He built a little frame to hold the kids’ Kindle Fire and even had the game broadcasting on them.  Cool, eh?

Photo Credit: Britt Laeger

And here’s a picture to show just how big the field is–it’s 7 batches of Rice Crispy Treats!

Curious how our stadium turned out?  Well, if you’ve been on Facebook you’ve probably seen most of the pictures and video, but I’m still going to post them here for posterity.

Today I’m going to start with the fly over video that Tim took because it really shows off the whole thing better than pictures can. We had a great turnout and tons of delicious food. Tomorrow I’ll post more pictures of the details and put up a list of all the food we ate. I’m still full from yesterday!

We’re gearing up this week for our Super Bowl party on Sunday.  Tim pulled out the snack stadium from last year and has it all assembled again and ready for food!  It’s a good thing he pulled it out early, because we seemed to have misplaced a bag of clips for the shelving units… So, he had to order some replacements for those as well as some new mini light bulbs and set out new contact paper on the surfaces.

This years’ new addition will hopefully be actual screens casting the game (on the kid’s tablets) that attache right to the stadium–just like the big screens you would see at the game inside the stadium.  I’ll be sure to take pictures!

In other news…

Everyone is finally (knock on wood!) feeling better.  We’ll need to take Levi back in to be checked to make sure his double ear infection is totally cleared up.  But for now, everyone seems to be normal!

I’m helping judge a piano competition this weekend in St. Peter.  I’m nervous.  I’ve only judged one other time before and I stress over what I say on the critique.  I’m sure it won’t be as terrible as I’m making it in my head.  I just have to remember that this should be a positive experience for the kids!

I took Maddie with me to get my rings cleaned and checked this morning.  I go to Wedding Day Diamonds because my jeweler moved out of state… I’m pretty sure I’ve written about that before… it’s annoying since I have to mail it out if they have to do repairs.  Anyway, we walked around the store and I showed her the sparkly rings and necklaces and she was quite impressed.  She kept saying, “Maddie’s? For Maddie?”  Lol!

I had a student forget to come to a lesson, (after we chatted that morning!) so they came with apology chocolate!  Haha!  I love it!

I know I’ve posted a lot about Christmas lately, but that’s because I didn’t get around to posting much in December… so now here we are a month after Christmas and I’m finally writing about it.  But I really like to make sure I eventually post about it because then I’ll have it to look back on in the future.  It’s like a journal of my life.  Well, a journal that everyone gets to read and includes pictures….

For Christmas Tim and decided that instead of trying to figure out what to buy Chloe (since her style is growing increasingly different than my own!) that we would give her some money and let her pick out something for herself. We agreed to give her $50 and get to go on an outing with me.  A Mother- – Daughter date, if you will.  When she opened the gift she was thrilled, and a few days after Christmas she and I headed out to help her spend her special money.  As we left I made it very clear that this was her money and she could spend it how she wanted.  If she wanted to spend it all on one item, that was her choice.  Or if she wanted to spend it on multiple items that was fine too.  She could buy new or used items–again totally her choice.  So she thought long and hard about where she wanted to go and she chose to start at “Once Upon a Child” (it’s a gently used kids clothing store).  We had fun perusing the racks of clothes and trying stuff on and in the end she walked out with a large pile of clothes (some of which was on clearance and then, as a special promotion those clearance items were ANOTHER 70% off!  Talk about a great deal!).  She then decided to go to Wal-Mart and that’s when she chose to use $10 of her remaining dollars to buy the purple hair dye, that I posted about yesterday, and a few other small items.

So, at the end of it all she walked away with 17 items!  That’s a pretty awesome use of her $50, don’t you think?  It was a really great lesson for her in deciding how to use her money as well as keeping track of how much each item was “worth” to her.  For example, the hair dye was 1/5 of her total money, but she REALLY wanted it, so it was worth spending that much on.

I know it’s hard to see all the items here, but this is her haul!  This is what she got: 5 tops, 1 pair of boots, 3 pairs of leggings, 1 skirt, 1 bra, 1 notebook, 1 wallet, 1 box of hair dye, and 1 fun candy.  Also not pictured: 1 pair of earmuffs  & 1 ninja turtle notebook for Josiah!

Chloe has been asking to dye her hair purple for a few months and I finally let her put temporary dye in on the bottom of her hair over Christmas break.  It has since washed out completely but was a fun while it lasted!  It was a funny purple that faded to blue and then kind of grey… and was really tricky to capture in a picture….

She had fun doing curlers WITH her dyed hair too!

And the best part is that we even have enough left over to do it again!

Well, we finally had a true snow day!  It snowed long and hard on Monday from about noon till midnight and after all was said and done we got a solid 12 inches of snow.  The plows didn’t get going until well after midnight and there was a lot of snow to get moved.  So, they cancelled school for Tuesday, and it was gorgeous out.  The sun was shining and about 25 degrees.  The perfect snow day.  Unfortunately Chloe has been feeling under the weather so she hasn’t been able to really enjoy it.  But at least she didn’t have to miss school!

It was almost too much snow for Maddie to play in.  She kept getting stuck.  🙂

Sadly the Vikings did not win this past weekend… but we still dressed to support them!  One game short of the Superbowl is still a really good season!

Tim bought me this cute Viking shirt for Christmas–and one of my friends at church got the same gift from her husband!  Aren’t we so cute?!