Deep Freeze Festival

LAst Saturday Scott, Kellan, our friends the Maynes' and I went to the Deep Freeze Festival at our local community hall. It was great weather and there was lots of fun stuff to do. They had 2 Indian teepees set up with fires inside and drummers. The teepee we went into had a lady drummer and she sang us some songs and let us play some instruments, a drum and a couple of homemade rattles. There was a warming station with some delicious hot chocolate, a horse & wagon ride, curling, an ice rink, a luge for the kids to go down and also a craft tent. While Scott and I were helping Kellan skate a photographer from the journal took our picture. Here's a link http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/photos/Gallery+Deep+Freeze+2010/2424956/story.html I believe we're the last photo. Kellan loved skating, actually I think he more enjoyed having Scott and I pull him around but hey he had fun!

Christmas Baking #1

I guess really the title of this blog post shouldn't be "Christmas Baking #1" because there is no baking involved, just microwaving but Christmas Microwaving sounds dumb. . .

Fantasy Fudge
3/4 c margarine or butter
3 c sugar
2/3 c evaporated milk
1 pkg (8 oz) Bakers Semi-Sweet Chocolate, broken into pieces
1 jar (7 oz) Marshmallow Creme
1 tsp vanilla
1 c chopped nuts

Microwave margarine 4 quart microwavable bowl on HIGH 1 minute or until melted. Add sugar and milk; mix well.

Microwave on HIGH 3 minutes; stir. Microwave 2 minutes longer or until mixture begins to boil; mix well. Microwave 3 minutes, stir. Microwave 2 1/2 minutes longer. Let stand 2 minutes.

Stir in chocolate until melted. Add marshmallow creme and vanilla; mix well. Stir in nuts. Pour into greased 9x13 inch pan. Cool at room temperature; cut into squares.

Makes about 4 dozen candies
Prep Time: 20 minutes

10 Years

I’m not sure what to say about the past 10 years with Scott. Well really I’ve known him for 12 years but Nov 10, 2009 was our 10th wedding anniversary. We’ve had some good times and we’ve had some bad times and sometimes it was really bad and sometimes it was really good. I don’t want to make this into a blog post about how great my marriage is because if I was brutally honest it’s not great all the time and I really hate reading about only the good things in people’s lives so I’m assuming that a) someone is reading this and b) they don’t want to read only good things either and c) that if I were to try and do a post about the last 10 years it would be horrifically long and therefore d) no one would read it.

Here’s some wedding pics, just to remind myself and for your enjoyment.