[legzzalot]

Hi everybody! I hope you all had a good holiday. Mine was wonderful.

There was the Christmas Eve catastrophe when I could not find a store open to buy the pepperoni I needed for my lasagna. Fortunately I was able to bribe my mom's neighbor who owns an Italian restaurant that happened to be open. $20 for pepperoni..... But I did make some awesome lasagna which I enjoyed with my family and my best friend and her husband.

I also became addicted to a new game that I bought for my future stepchild.... Roller Coaster Tycoon 3! I also had her a computer built and we got to spend the week with her and a great time was had all around.

Oh, and I did go and finally get our Christmas gifts to each other last night... New cell phones! It's the only thing we bought for each other this year but we went all out for the kids and I could not be happier.

[4boysmom]

We've had my son's in-laws with us for a week, and now they have left. So DH and I are starting to "dung!" Do you know that word? The in-laws didn't know what we were talking about.

We explained that now all of our boys are out of the house, we are going to start throwing away stuff that should have been thrown away years ago! We call that "dunging!"

Just wondering if that is just a cultural word for us eastern Idahoans!

I'm feeling great de-cluttering. A great way to spend the week off with my DH. OF course, he wants to go on a little trip. I guess we'll see who wins that one!

[legzzalot]

My only plans this week besides working for 3 days... I need to steal the truck from my fiance so I can come down here and pick up the GIANT 36" monitor I just bought. It's bigger than my TV and since we only watch movies on the laptops, I figured we would put it in place of the tv and hook up the computer surround sound. It will be just fine!

Oh and I am cooking a big dinner and inviting everyone over for board games for new years!

[doydie]

New Years eve doesn't mean much to me. But Thursday my daughter and grandkids come in as do my sisters daugther, Friday my Brother gets here with his wife and two sons. We don't get to see them every year. Saturday the other brother and sister in law come. His son just got married this year and are expecting their first child in May.They will get here about the same time as his parents. So hopefully we will have Christmas dinner almost done when they get here. After dinner all the men clean up and the married women go do their stocking stuffing then the fun begins. In the evening we will have a baby shower for the new baby! Sunday I willl collapse! No wait, my brothers are still here then. My daughter leaves Saturday night OK, Monday is collapse day. No, thats mother in law day. She might have to wait for us to take her out for supper that day!

[Twinkletoes]

Normally I'm a hamburger kinda gal...But the County (that I work for) gave us a <$25 gift certificate to use on a turkey, ham or roast. Well, I've had enough turkey and ham lately, so I bought my first ever Prime Rib Roast!!! It was huge and the $25 didn't even pay for half of it.

And then I saw the crab legs. I've never cooked crab legs. I don't even know how to crack them (so I never order them at a restaurant). I bought some and my son steamed them. Yum!

(Hey, MelodyL: why don't you do a video showing us how to crack crab legs?)

Plus, he brought some shrimp and make shrimp scampi. I finally decided I was just in the way, so I went and sat down at the table and just waited. There were about a dozen of us that ate and ate until we couldn't stuff anymore in.

Then we got out the robes and doll and had the grandkids act out the Nativity Scene while Grandpa (DH) read from Luke 2.

And then we gave out the gifts, which was framed family pictures that we had taken during Thanksgiving. Did you know that frames cost nearly as much as pictures???

Whew! No wonder I'm tired! And broke.

Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for leaving nice messages on my profile page -- can't respond to them individually, but thanks so much!

Thanks, Legzz -- nice thread.

[4boysmom]

Hey Twinkles,
I was shopping on Christmas Eve, (last minute stuff!) and they had prime rib for just $2.98 a pound! People were hauling out huge ones for cheap. So I went back and got 2 that were around 10 pounds. That cost me about $50, but it will be great later!

Now, how do I cook it?????

[MelodyL]

Hey Twinks:

Here you go!!! it's not me, but it's an video on crab legs.

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgtkQ...eature=related