Family Fun and Comfort Food

My daughter and her family came to dinner and games last night!  I love it when we can ALL get together and spend time laughing - and that is exactly what we did!  They had had a stressful day attending a funeral of a family friend so I took it upon myself to lighten things up a little bit for them.  And also - to feed them comfort food!

Dinner was grilled burgers (thank you Kirby!!), home made macaroni and cheese, some blue cheese coleslaw and then for dessert we got cherry cheese pie.  All very comforting - and fattening!  But we loved it!

After dinner we all agreed it was time for a round of 'Apples to Apples'.  If you have never played, you really need to.  It is a game of trying to decide what the 'judge' will think.  We laugh and scream and taunt all through the game and have a blast!

Each person is dealt a hand of cards with words on them like WORM, EIFFEL TOWER, ATOMIC BOMB, QUEEN ELIZABETH, APPLE PIE.  Just random words.  The judge selects one card from a stack with a word on it like CREEPY, PURE, BORING.  You chose the card from your hand that you think is described by the judges word. If the judge selects your card,  you win the round and get to keep the descriptive card.  And for extra fun after we play I always collect the cards and assign them to the owners - like this -

I won so I will go first - I was swift and dainty, ridiculous and masculine, selfish but timeless and earthy.
Christie won 6 cards - She was cuddly and normal, feminine and dramatic, unusual but normal.
Michael and Kirby both got 5 cards.  Michael was boring but powerful, inspirational but fake and creepy.  Kirby was appetizing and repulsive, delicious and filthy and ordinary.
Brendan came in with 4 cards and was cheesy, idiotic, pure and luscious. 
And here is the best one!  Casey only got 1 card - the big loser was Hostile!


We all had such a good time and the laughter is always the best!  Below are the recipes for the Mac and Cheese and the Cherry Cheese Pie so take a look and try them yourselves!