September 12 Sibling Dinner

Sibling dinner tonight was fun. Danny, me, Sarah, and Joe (and of course, Jane) were all there. Afterward we played catchphrase.

This is the chicken I made tonight. For how yummy it was, this was definitely the easiest thing I've cooked in a long time. I got the recipe from Ruth Ann! Thank you!!!

There was extra so I took a plate over to my visiting teachee.

Cranberry Chicken:
350 degrees

Chicken tenderloins
1 can whole berry cranberry sauce
1 bottle French dressing

Mix the sauce and 1/2 the bottle of dressing together. Pour over the chicken. Cook for 30 minutes. Serve over rice.




...and we made Grandpa's potatoes.




and while we were at it, Sarah wanted us to photograph the rolls she brought. When she said the prayer, she asked to bless the rolls that she had made from scratch. Haha!




And this was actually not from sibling dinner, but it was funny. I hope that CPS doesn't come after us!!!

Taboo spankings

So, with a new semester and everything (ok so the semester is half over already), we've merrily reinstated the tradition of having sibling dinner, even though we've all blogged precious little about it. Last week, though, Kate and Danny made a spinner so that we could divide up the cooking responsibilities, and one of the things they put on the wheel was "salad/blog." As in, bring the salad AND write up a report of the dinner on the blog.

My job was salad/blog this past week, and since next Saturday is fast approaching and I've finished most of my midterms, I figured I'd better write something before Kate gets on my case for it. Plus, the idea of the blog is way cool. We really should work on it and make it take off.

We had a fun and raucous evening together. Sarah and Mykle brought a tasty pasta dish, I brought the Ramen noodle salad (secret Vasicek recipe, which I've altered and made that much cooler), and Kate and Danny provided the instant mashed potatoes. Instant potatoes? It was tasty.

Speaking personally, I was really out of it that night. I'd just climbed the Y mountain (to the very summit of the mountain) with my friends Steve, Warren, and Dan the previous night, and just to give you an idea of how tired I was, we started climbing around midnight. Didn't get back until five. To top it off, I'd done some grocery shopping and found some cookies on the discount rack, and by the time they made it to sibling dinner, I'd eaten maybe seven or eight of them throughout the course of the day. And then Kate and Danny baked more cookies! No sleep + sugar high = a general ruckus brewing.

Well, as usual, we couldn't agree on an after-dinner movie, so we settled instead on a game of Taboo. Sarah gets really into this game, as we soon discovered. I did the whole pre-game shaving-with-the-buzzer routine, then the sonic-death-ray routine, and then we started.

It was boys against girls, which put Kate and Sarah at a numbers disadvantage from which they never entirely recovered. When it was my turn to keep the time, I secretly overturned the hourglass a couple of times (shhh! don't tell Sarah!). Still, we all had a fun time, and by the end we were all laughing and spanking each other like good old times.

Oh heck, I just realized that the title of this blog post is going to attract some very risque search engine traffic. Ah, whatever.

I started doodling on the scoresheet towards the end, and Mykle grabbed it from me just as I was about to draw a really cool picture about something that I've since forgotten about, and because I was sugar high and not thinking straight, I tackled him trying to get the sheet back. It was pretty hilarious. Sarah quickly defended her husband and slapped me a good one. Good times.

So that was that. I think it was a success. If anything, it proves that being a Vasicek (dominant or recessive) makes you a very raucous, fun loving person. And that's cool.

PIZZA

So, we had pizza. It was delicious. Mom's recipe. Sarah brought the cheese, Joe brought peppers and something else that I forgot, Dot brought sauce, and Danny was such a darling, he went to the store TWICE for pepperoni. DELICIOUSO!