Meet Yolanda's Table

Here's Yolanda then and now!

Yolanda is in 1/3 MOPS and this is her second year as a DGL.  She has two kids.

Meet her table!

just a few of the ladies! 

Each person was asked this question:

What is your favorite Christmas tradition?

YOLANDA: On Christmas Eve, we wear our new Christmas jammies and open a second gift (it's always a game to play as a family).  When we wake up, we're ready for gift giving/receiving.  We also drive around with hot cocoa to look at Christmas lights.  

MENTOR MOM-KRISTI: We do lots of baking, candy making, and special recipes.  We all do our New Year's resolutions and put them in our Christmas stockings.  The next year we pull out our stockings and read our last year's resolutions.

AMANDA: Making Christmas cookies with my mom, sisters, and girls!

TIFFANI: On Christmas morning, the kids are allowed to go downstairs, before "waking up" mom and dad, and get their stockings.  It's so precious to hear them sharing this time with each other when they think we aren't listening.  

ANDREA: We read books under our Christmas tree with my daughters every night.  

We bake a cake on Christmas day to celebrate Jesus' birthday.  We sing Happy Birthday and have cake for dessert after Christmas dinner.  

MICHELLE: We sprinkle oatmeal and glitter mixed together outside for Santa's reindeer, and we throw baby carrots outside for them, too.  

Thanks for sharing your table with us, Yolanda!

Blended Caramel Frappuccino by Yolanda 

1 cup cold coffee
1 Tbs heaping sweetened condensed milk
Cream (heavy or half & half, as desired)
Ice

Blend!
Top with whipped cream and drizzle with caramel

Meet Jennifer's Table!

Here's Jennifer then and now!

Jennifer is in 2/4 MOPS and this is her second year as a DGL.  She has two kids.

Do you have any Christmas traditions?

We pick out our Christmas tree at a tree farm every year.

Meet her table!

Not pictured: Jenni

Each person was asked this question:
Do you have a memory from family vacation as a child?

JENNIFER: One year we stayed at a beach house in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  A group of us locked part of the family out and blasted them with water balloons. 

MENTOR MOM-JULIE: Most of our family vacations as a little girl consisted of lots of driving, and I always got carsick. :(

JESS: Our family went to a lake in Minnesota and stayed in a couple cabins.  I remember fishing and swimming in the lake.  The best thing about the trip was that there was a girl around my age I became friends with.  It was such a fun trip with our whole family-8 of us! :)  We played games and had a great time! 

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KELLEY: One time we drove across country from Ohio to Kansas.  Half way through the trip our old station wagon broke down.  My dad was able to get it to an old truck stop and the restaurant there took us in and fed my 4 siblings and I all day as we got it fixed. 

CARLY: I remember staying at Embassy Suites when I was about 12 or 13. My two younger sisters and I thought it was so great. Our favorite part was the elevators you could see out of. We would spend so much time just riding up and down in them.

JENNI

ELIZABETH

KELLY

Thanks for sharing your table with us, Jennifer!

Baked Cream Cheese Spaghetti Casserole

12 oz spaghetti
1 (28 ounce) jars prepared spaghetti sauce
1 lb lean ground beef
1 tsp Italian seasoning
2 cloves garlic, minced
8 ounces cream cheese
1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated

Preheat oven to 350º F.

In a skillet, brown the ground beef until cooked through; drain fat and stir in spaghetti sauce.  Set aside.

Cook spaghetti according to directions on packet.  Drain and place cooked spaghetti in bowl.  Add cream cheese, Italian Seasoning and minced garlic.  Stir until cream cheese is melted and the spaghetti is thoroughly coated. 

Lightly grease a 9x13" pan.  Spread a small amount of meat sauce in the bottom of the dish.  Put spaghetti on top of sauce and top with remaining meat sauce.  Sprinkle parmesan cheese on top.

Bake for 30 minutes, until bubbly.