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 Ahhhhh!  I lost my blog entry!

 Ok now I’m mad!  I spent a long time writing about this weekend and when I put in some smiley faces into the text it erased it all!    I’m just sad now.  Therefore, I decided to just re-type it in a shortened way and copy and paste it into my web log! 

Here it is…again:

I hope that everyone’s Christmas went great!  I wanted to describe a little bit about our Christmas weekend,  but I don’t want it to be way to long to read either.   

My weekend started with me being worried!  Jesse’s mom was coming into town and we had invited a couple of families over for dinner on Christmas Eve, (the Dicken’s family, the Carbajal family, and Sandra from the office).  But although we wanted everyone to have been able to make it, we were still worried about fitting all 12 in our 600 sq. foot apartment!  We moved some furniture around and to our surprise everyone would be quite comfortable (as long as they didn’t mind staying in one spot for a few hours).  The other part I was worried about, was making the rice.

On the menu was a 4 layer lasagna (with 10 cheeses), yellow rice, salad, some sort of appetizer (which ended up being Sweet Swedish meatballs), and a fresh baked loaf of bread with garlic sauce.   Everything was time consuming, but not too difficult to make in concept.  I have a bread maker, a crockpot and all the ingredients for lasagna.  However, the rice was what I had to tackle.  See being of Spanish decent, you’d think I’d know how to make yellow rice.  However, it has never been my forte! 

Also, I knew that if the Carbajals would be planning to come that I’d need to make enough rice for Michael to have half a pot of rice just for himself…LOL…inside joke:  (Michael loves rice)!  And so, I prayed, that nobody would die from my rice and even though the massive amount of rice I put into the pot out-weighed the pot itself, and most of the rice did not fully cook, nobody died and it was not anything that didn’t get fixed by my microwave, and for that I am thankful. 

Anyways, after all that I had hoped my food would be ‘superb’, however, as many times as everyone said that everything was “awesome”, “great”, “delicious”, nobody could quite convince me.  After a great dinner-time with the Dickens and the three of us, we went to church for a Christmas Eve candle-light service.  It was awesome.  The children had a few songs that they sang and we had some hot apple cider. 

On Christmas day, we mainly spent time with Jesse’s mom.  We went to Disney’s Market place.  One of our favorite ‘cheap’ date places, (courtesy of the Kleidosty’s).  The whole time there we couldn't stop thinking of things that some of our friends would like. 

From there we had the idea to go to the Contemporary hotel to see the Food Network’s-famed edible  scenes at certain Disney Hotel lobbies.  From the Contemporary we went to different other Disney hotels by way of the monorail to look at each of their edible displays.  One of them was a Child sized (but taller than us) chocolate carousel, a display showing Geppetto and Pinochio in the workshop, a huge (lifesized) gingerbread and candy covered candy shop within the enormous lobby of the Grand Floridian Resort, and even had time to go by the Beach Club hotel to take a picture of the “Kitchen Sink” ice cream, that the Kleidosty family shared with us a year ago, (once we get the pictures of all of these things from Jesse’s mom we’ll send over to you). 

Anyway, after we came back we got a movie from BlockBuster Video and came home to eat leftover lasagna and get to bed.  So see it wasn’t all about the food….we had a great time of fellowship in the Lord, a seed was hopefully planted, and it was about the memories!