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Browns' Family Christmas

by Amanda Brown
(Washington)

Dan and Amanda Brown invite our family for an old-fashioned Christmas in Leavenworth, Washington.

Here is a tentative itinerary:

Dec 24th: ARRIVAL DAY

Check in time is 3pm. We will be there getting things settled and welcoming guests.

After all guest have arrived, we plan to go to the Christmas Lighting Festival in Leavenworth and dinner will be in town at one of the restaurants.

Dec 25th: CHRISTMAS DAY

This day is planned for family at the cottage with trimming the tree and other decorations. Dinner will be turkey and ham, with a side dish provided by each family.

Gift exchange: Each family will bring an ornament for each member of their family from the state in which they live. It will be hung on the tree and numbered. At the end of the day we will draw for those numbers and we each get to take a different ornament home.

Dec 26th: ADVENTURE DAY

A day for sledding, sleigh rides, wine tasting and just all around adventure.

Dec 27th: DEPARTURE DAY

Family brunch at 9am before check out at 11am.

Families may contact me regarding the side dish for Christmas dinner and I will ensure all the ingredients are ready.

Visit the lodge website at www.mtsprings.com for information on the sleigh rides and other activities. We do have to reserve those in advance. Around October is what I was thinking.

Please contact me if you have any questions. navygirl08@hotmail.com

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Dec 12, 2009
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lasagna options
by: Drenda

Ok folks. I've come up with 4 different lasagna recipes:
1) spicy chipotle lasagna
2) white cheese chicken lasagna
3) traditional w/ ricotta
4) hearty veggie w/ italian sausage and cottage cheese instead of ricotta

each should feed 12 and with salad and bread should be enough for an army of Atk-Nie-Man-Oyl-Zimm-sons

he he

can't wait! love you all

Nov 25, 2009
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pies
by: Aunt Tena

regarding recent pie list--put me down for one pumpkin with walnut topping and one mint oreo cookie dream pie (for the little and big kids with a sweet tooth) Along with the breads and cinnamon rolls thats about it for me Thanks see ya soon!!!!!!!!!!!

Nov 24, 2009
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Pies
by: Mom

Hey gang it looks like we are getting closer,with
the little one on board now. So how about pies is
anyone signed up for that??? Maybe Manda and I should include the stuff for pies on the grocery list and let who ever whats too bake them....
I am not a baker soooooooooo...I do think it is
the altitute that gives me trouble but what ever
nothing comes out right when I try to bake....so
pick a # gang. Hang on it is going to be a fast track weekend...love & miss ya all

Nov 18, 2009
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activity for all
by: Aunt Tena

Hello. I'm planning on all the kids and even us big kids making snowflakes, paper of all sizes of course for the tree and windows and walls whatever, I'll have little kids scissors and big kids too with different colors of pretty paper. Count me in on the sleigh ride if I didn't already say so--is this the one that also includes dinner (which is more right?) It's going to be soooooo fun Love you

Nov 11, 2009
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food
by: brook

nevermind about the potatoes. im thinking of making stuffed sweet onions and Whole apple crisps for dessert. i need to know how many to make so i can adjust the recipe. then i can tell you what needs to go on the shopping list.
:)

Nov 10, 2009
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So Excited
by: Brook & Keoni

Hey guys! We are so excited for this trip, cant wait! :) Everything sounds so wonderful, this is going to be the best family christmas by far. Anyways, im planning on making scalloped potatoes. And Aunt Mandy, Keo and i are wanting to do the sleigh ride as well on the 26th. we would of told you earlyer, but i just got this website today! ;) Love you and miss you all! see you real soon! :)

Nov 03, 2009
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Christmas Table
by: Mom

Everyone is so excited about this wonderful time
we have planned for our Family......I wish it could last for a week or 2...I am going to take
charge of the table setting for Christmas dinner. Not sure on what kind
of dishes they have but the table seats 30 so no
kid table--- we will all be together yae!! I have found a wonderful sweet potato recipe so I think that is what I will do...I am wondering what ya
all think about the time of dinner? what do ya
think 3:00pm ...love and miss you all...jingle
jangle...real soon....Mom

Oct 30, 2009
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Wow this is getting sooo exciting!!!
by: Chrissy

I plan to bring all the goodies necessary for the kiddos to make their stockings. (Very quick and easy project!)I will be bringing my tripod for anyone to use for their cameras and family/group pics/videos and such!! All the food sounds yummy!! I guess it wouldnt be Christmas with out our corn casserol though. So I'll bring stuff for that and of course the TURKEY!! Very fresh and organicly grown(very fat) personally by one of the Doctors in our group. YUM!!! Anyone have a good stuffing recepie to do?
Amanda-We will participate in all of the group activities planned.
Shawna- I know Teri wants to hit the slopes, you going?

Happy Halloween everyone!!!

Oct 25, 2009
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Side Dish and Crafts
by: Shawna

Hi Gang!
We are driving up, and planning to pack sleds and snowsuits so if anyone needs anything I'm sure we can fit it in the truck just let us know.
I would like to make greek spaghetti as a side for Christmas dinner if that sounds good. Keeping a little tradition in there for us and you all get to try something new (hopefully)!
I like the idea of making and filling the kids' stockings! I would also like to do a craft with the kids. I have supplies to make little picture frames and I thought it would be cute to get a picture of all the kids together to put in them. Does anyone have a small photo printer they could bring? If not..we will fill the frames later!
Getting excited to start to plan the big trip!! See you all soon:)
xoxoxo
Shawna
p.s. Drenda--with the water chestnuts and velveeta?! YUMMY!!
Amanda--we would like to do the sleigh ride.

Oct 23, 2009
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recipe
by: Drenda

Hi all,
I came across this really yummy green bean casserole recipe:

3 cups frozen french style green beans, thawed
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 1/2 cups frozen corn, thawed
1 can sliced water chestnuts
1 med onion, chopped
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 cup cubbed velvetta cheese
5 tsp butter
1/3 cup crushed butter flavored crackers
2 Tbsp slivered almonds

What do you think? If you like it, add the ingrediants to your shopping list and I'll bring the recipe to make on Christmas Day.

I'm still planning to bring 4 different varieties of lazagna for Saturday dinner. Will you please add french bread and salad fixings to your grocery list also.

love you all and I'm getting very excited. See you soon!

Drenda

Oct 05, 2009
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******OCTOBER********
by: Amanda

Hey everyone! Sure hope your fall has been great! I am gearing up for Halloween and of course the arrival of the new baby. YEA!

I wanted to update everyone on the progress of the planning.
First off, there have been a couple of changes.
1. We are going to have the kids make thier own stockings and have thier parents fill them for Christmas morning. We are still going to do the ornament exchange but everyone should only bring one ornament per family instead of per family member. So we should have 7 or 8 ornaments because we have 7 or 8 families.

2. I was hoping to go on the "feed the horses" sleigh ride on Sat, but I decided that just doing a regular sleigh ride would be just as good and save a little bit of money. Let me know if you are interested in going on a horse drawn sleigh ride sometime Sat.

Also it is OCTOBER (wow) so I will be making the reservations for activities and for the Sunday brunch. Please let me know if you would like to be included in the sleigh ride and if there are any other activites you are intersted in.

As for the food, Aunt Tena has lots of great ideas and she is running with it! YEA! Let me know if there is anything that should be added to the grocery list or if there is kitchen stuff that I should plan on bringing.

We are going to have such a great weekend together celebrating Christmas! I just can't wait!

Love ya,
Manda

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Oct 05, 2009
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Hey everyone! Sure hope your fall has been great! I am gearing up for Halloween and of course the arrival of the new baby. YEA! I wanted to update everyone on the progress of the planning. First off, there have been a couple of changes. 1. We are going to have the kids make thier own stockings and have thier parents fill them for Christmas morning. We are still going to do the ornament exchange but everyone should only bring one ornament per family instead of per family member. So we should have 7 or 8 ornaments because we have 7 or 8 families. 2. I was hoping to go on the "feed the horses" sleigh ride on Sat, but I decided that just doing a regular sleigh ride would be just as good and save a little bit of money. Let me know if you are interested in going on a horse drawn sleigh ride sometime Sat. Also it is OCTOBER (wow) so I will be making the reservations for activities and for the Sunday brunch. Please let me know if you would like to be included in the sleigh ride and if there are any other activites you are intersted in. As for the food, Aunt Tena has lots of great ideas and she is running with it! YEA! Let me know if there is anything that should be added to the grocery list or if there is kitchen stuff that I should plan on bringing. We are going to have such a great weekend together celebrating Christmas! I just can't wait! Love ya, Manda

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Sep 03, 2009
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Bringing for food
by: Aunt Tena

Hey there I'm planning on bringing several loaves of bread, pumpkin, banana nut, zuccinni, all with and w/o nuts, also I thought with my bread machine I was going to make a couple batches of cinnamin roll dough and cut and freeze also to use Christmas morning along with Brendas' famous sticky buns of course. What you think? I was also going to bring my pie plate for pumpkin pie, and my glass plate for devilled eggs and Shawna has the chilled container for eggs too so I guess we need you have a few doz eggs for us to fix. And I also have a couple Christmas plates for goodies--but they,re glass maybe just plastic wood be better uh.

Aug 04, 2009
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activities for kids
by: Aunt Tena

OK this is what Shawna and I thought to do, after I told her about Drenda's and I conversation about a Christmas pagent. Actually it's more like a little skit, we already have baby Jesus right, so with the other kids it would be fun to do a reading from a Christmas storybook and have all the kids have a part even the big ones. This will take some creative thinking with the costumes (homemade of courseas part of the project). Shawna is looking for some childrens storybooks at her school and with Brandons Grandma Bert who does sunday school with her grandkids, but if anyone else has a good one already we could use and go from there. It would be fun and of course Drenda is elected to be the director. ha ha!!
Oh and about the pizzas we could all bring our pampered chef pizza pans that would be at least 4 of them right we could switch them out to save time and make more.

Jul 30, 2009
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*****UPDATE*****
by: Amanda

-I have learned that the "festival" in town will not be going on Christmas Eve. The town will still be all lit up with Christmas lights. There is a live nativity scene at one of the churches. So, how does everyone feel about DIY pizza on the 24th?

-The lodge has a TV/DVD, I thought that we could all bring our favorite Christas movie to enjoy on Christmas day. Could give the kids something to do as well.

-I am planning on booking the breakfast "feed the horses" sleigh ride on the morning of 26th, just wondering if anyone else would be interested in that as well?

Post your ideas and let me know what you think!

Jul 16, 2009
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Christmas Eve idea
by: Drenda

I really like Aunt Tena's idea to fix pizzas on Thursday evening for dinner prior to going into the village. I think it would be super quick and easy. I'm all about saving a few dimes for Saturday :)

Jul 15, 2009
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first night Christmas eve
by: Aunt Tena

I thought instead of having dinner (so we could save our spending money for the adventure day) in the town, we could visit and see the lights after dinner. We could all fix together with kids too individual size (for kids) and large for us adults variety pizzas. It would be fun and then go sightseeing in the village.

Jul 13, 2009
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Dinner Satruday night
by: Drenda

Since Saturday is the day to be out and about sledding and such, I would like to offer a dinner suggestion. Nikki and I would like to make and freeze lasagna so all we have to do is pop them in the oven. We can make several different varieties served with a nice salad and garlic bread. No one will have to slave over a hot stove! Thoughts?

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