We had a jam packed weekend! First, we had to reschedule our annual New Year’s Day brunch for Groundhog’s Day (remember Jim, JT, and Haley all were sick?). Fortunately, everyone could make it! We had a pancake bar and everyone brought toppings to share. Haley and I made a quadruple batch of pancakes, three egg-ham-hashbrown casseroles, maple sausage mini meatballs, and Boston Creme cupcakes for dessert. Yum!
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We take a picture of the kids on the couch every year (except last year… sad) and it is fun to see how they’ve grown. Of course, we started with only adults… so the group has gotten much larger.
Then we hosted Brady and Carson for dinner Saturday night while their mom was at a birthday party. Poor Haley was just sure Carson would want a tour of the house (“Look, Carson, want to do puzzles with me?”) but he was very interested in being a boy. So Haley hung out with me and the boys played great, ate well, and were very kind. Here are JT and Brady praying for dinner – so sweet!
Sunday was Super Bowl, and we had a party to go to at the Schmalzes’ house. The pregame activity was clay shooting. The ladies rotated turns watching all nine children in the house while the rest of the crew went out to play.
During halftime, we avoided the children watching commercials and the halftime show by serving dinner. Of course, no one was really watching the game anyway, but still.
Elisa made a huge spread and everybody brought something, so we ate for four hours straight.
Yum!
The Keene Family 