Ooooooo, Fonduuuuuuue!

We got a fondue set as one of our gifts (the thank you note is in the mail, by the way), and we decided to use it! So we invited 4 other couples over for a dinner party. (We like dinner parties! Mostly I think we just like to fill our house with people.) This was not just a chocolate and pretzels event (although we had those too).

For the first course, our friends served a cheese fondue with bread. Followed every closely by the second course: beef, chicken and pork cooked on a beefy fondue broth. We put out some sauces. I think the peanut one was the most surprising and most well liked.

My most favorite thing about fondue meals is that it takes a long time to eat. You stick a piece of meat and put it in the boiling broth then wait, and hopefully talk, while your meal cooks. I love to hear people talk, so it was a ton of fun for me.

For dessert, we finally busted out the chocolate and pretzels. Yum! It was so so much fun and so very good.

First Dinner Guests!

Last weekend Matt and I had our first dinner guests. The Stevensens, one of the members of Matt's YSA branch presidency accepted an invitation to come to our home for dinner. We were so excited we hung extra pictures on the wall and went grocery shopping again. We vacuumed and got out all of our favorite games, put the chicken in the oven, and waited for our guests. I felt like some old English family from one of Jane Austen's novels. We even dug out our good table clothe and ironed it.

For dinner we served cornflake chicken, rosemary potatoes, veggies, fruit, and the best great value brand cherrylimeade drink mix. Yum!!! But the best part was definitly Sister Stevensen's Keylime pie.

After dinner and dessert, we played 3 games of rummi kub. I only won one time. Matt won once, and Brother Stevensen took us all in the end. I'm so grateful they were our first dinner and game guests. They didn't mind that the potatoes were too rosemarieeee and we one two out of three games.

I'm still dreaming of that pie!

First Practice.

Everyone has been asking me for wedding pictures and details from this last month. All I can say is all in good time for the pictures.

Just so you know, Matt and I had a wonderful Christmas. We decorated our new home just in time to pack up and fly out to Texas to spend a few days with my family. Texas and my family both offered us a warm reception.

We spent our huggie-moon touring the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, then hopped a plane to Indiana to spend 2 blissfully lazy days with Matt's family.

Over the 10 day break we played a lot of games, gave a lot of hugs, and ate a lot of food.

We made it home January 3rd night to a Christmas decorated home, an empty fridge, and boxes and pictures still to be unpacked and hung.

This week we've been getting back into our work routines, traveling around town to pick up our mail from friends who were kind enough to help us out, and unpacking the last of our move-in boxes. We're excited to set up house and get into some kind of groove. Right now that groove includes Matt making me dinner every night (because he gets home first). I can't complain.