Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Sister's Weekend 2010

I LOVE my sister-in-laws! Don't get me wrong. Growing up with 2 brothers and no sisters had it's perks (such as NEVER having to share a room or clothes) but I do love having sisters now. Every year, we get together in January and with no husbands or kids, we let loose! We have a few things we do every year; go to the Temple, do our nails and stay up late watching chick flicks and then we try new things.

Cyni had the perfect tub for us all to climb in and soak our feet. We had fun making faces at the camera too!

This year, we added an Iron Chef competition! A neutral party provided 2 ingredients that we had to combine into one dish without using any recipes or the Internet for help. The two ingredients: Mini marshmallows and instant brown rice. Yes my friends, marshmallows and brown rice. While we had to get VERY creative, I think we all did very well. Cyndi (far left) created a "Turtle Mix" complete with pretzels, Chex cereal and, of course, rice and chocolate. Next, we had Beth with brown rice pudding garnished with extra marshmallows followed by Rebecca's Food-Network-inspired sweet potato souffle with rice filler. I attempted to make sweet and sour meatballs with a marshmallow sauce on a bed of brown rice. Beth's rice pudding won! (I only found out after the fact that neither judge likes sweet and sour to begin with, but I'm not bitter!)


We had lots of fun just being together while laughing till we cry!




We went to a glow in the dark mini golf place and then went out for ice cream.

I had TONS of fun and had a BLAST just hanging out with the girls! Sister's Weekend is a great chance for us to just relax and regroup after the holidays and gear up for the year to come! I wish everyone could have great sisters like me!

2 comments:

It's A Wonderful said...

Oh, what fun! I'll bet you all laughed a lot. I need to do that with my sisters-in-law! Love the glow in the dark photo!

Gallant Family said...

I agree! My family needs to do that too. I only have one sister-in-law for the moment. I'm glad you got to spend time back east with the fam, but I'm more excited you're BACK!