Fondue Feast

Our Fondue FeastTopped off with chocolate!Hayden (yes, in Santa PJs) and Tim dipping for dessert!
Hayden dips some more
Noah's "moshmewo"

We celebrated Valentine's Day together, first with breakfast over at Grammy and Grampy's house, then went to our neighbor's to celebrate their youngest daughter's second birthday. The most anticipated part of our day, however, was our fondue feast with Chris' cousin, Tim, and his wife, Lindsey. Our planning started over a week ago, when I had this idea as I drove home from work to do fondue for Valentine's Day. We pulled out a cookbook I've had for years with many different fondue recipes and began planning for our evening feast ... we ended up doing three pots: one with a sweet bar-be-que sauce for dipping in sausages, meatballs, Little smokies, as well as veggies; one was a "pub" fondue, a cheddar blend, and the other was a classic Swiss. We had everything from carrots and cauliflower to bread cubes. All three turned out delicious, though the Swiss was slightly "gluey" it still tasted great, and we had a wonderful time dipping and eating and dipping and eating ... even the boys got into it a bit, Noah slightly cranky from being woken up from his nap though, and Hayden trying to warm his carrots over the steam from the pots. I tried to get more pictures, but I realized they were all of us shoving food in our face and I was the brunt of a few jokes because I kept trying to snap pictures of everyone instead of enjoying the fondue. After cleaning up the pots, we set out to get our chocolate fondue ready with all the accompaniments ... strawberries, bananas, marshmallows, angel food cake ... it was a perfect ending to a special day together. You can see the boys enjoying the chocolate fondue, using the fondue spears I think was the highlight of their night. We loved having Tim and Lindsey over to hang out as they are such a special part of our lives; we are truly thankful, and very lucky, to call them family as well as friends. Next time I will try to get more of us in the pictures, but for now you get the idea ...