Monday, October 22, 2012

International Feast and a Bizarre Birthday Video

My cold is technically gone but it has left me with some nasty left overs that just seem to cling around and refuse to go away. Yesterday our church has its annual International Feast, which is a massive highlight and this year it was huge! There were over 70 dishes from over 20 countries. I made the same thing that I made last year, chocolate peanut butter balls.

It may sound normal, but peanut butter isn't a huge thing over here and all of the Spanish housemates we've ever had have thought the smell and idea of peanut butter was just nasty beyond belief. One of our pastors (who's Irish) even mentioned that the idea of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was just weird to him. I used to eat them every day after kindergarden and Branden still likes them. We estimated that I made over 80 peanut butter balls and they were all gone before the feast was over, so maybe I converted some people. There were some other amazing dishes as well. As I stayed at the American table with my dish, Branden loaded a plate with little bits of stuff and then brought it back for both of us to try. He did this 3 times and we still probably only tasted 1/3 of the dishes!

Our wonderful and tasty event even landed us in the paper which you can see HERE

Branden and I have a busy week ahead of us but I will be posting more weird and wonderful search engine hits, sharing our bizarre birthday videos we send to family, and a favorite recipe we like to make for lazy breakfasts.

To kick off the bizarre birthday videos, here is the recent video we made for my sis's birthday earlier this month. The inspiration for this craziness is from my sis's recognition from the Facebook group Muscle Mom. She's not a body builder or anything like that, but she has ran more half marathons than I can count, and keeps herself toned and fit...which should be helpful when chasing around my two nephews! So here's the video; we didn't practice or write out a script (which should be pretty obvious) and this is our only take.



If you are totally jealous of my 'sock hard' six pack abs, I'm not telling you my secret   ;)

20 comments:

  1. How do you guys stay so slim & trim?

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    1. Oddly enough the answer is socks and underwear...have fun interpreting and putting that into practice ;)

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  2. You have me laughing with that video. You two have too much fun sometimes.

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    1. That video could give a pretty fair interpretation of our relationship...except without the muscles.

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  3. Maggie, I am laughing so hard at your video. You and Branden are adorable. I'm glad your peanut butter balls were popular.

    Love,
    Janie

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    1. Just wait till you see the other 2 videos we've made recently! We had a lot of fun making this one and I seriously just cracked up at Branden at the end of it which is why we just had to cut it. I will be over to answer your Monday question but I am still thinking about what my answer will be ;)

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  4. I've tried peanut butter and jam sandwiches but it is a bit sticky for me. Though I do love crunchy peanut butter.

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    1. Does that mean you don't like sticky toffee pudding??? ;) j/k I don't like crunchy peanut butter at all. I have to have it smooth.

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  5. Hahaha I loved that! You guys are great. Miss you loads!

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    1. Miss you too!!! It's always sad when a friend who understands your random sense of humor moves away. (and that's rare considering how weird we are!!) ;)

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  6. Did you need the passport stamped going down to Turners Cross.

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    1. It almost feels like we'd need to! It's quite a walk from our house but thankfully we've gotten used to it :)

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    2. Yeah, and about three very distinct linguistic borders to cross.

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    3. Don't even get me started! I'm still trying to wrap my head around the different Cork accents! At least I can understand about 90% of them but I think our stint of living in Scotland helped prepare us for that...if you can understand a cracked out, drunken Glaswegian then you can understand almost anything!

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  7. Considering they have "Marmite" so they really can't cast stones about peanut butter.

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    1. (scandalised Hurrup) We do no such thing. You may find Marmite in shops but I've yet to encounter an native that eats the stuff. That's only for English people and even then only for certain city English people.

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    2. I had almost forgotten about Marmite and never really realized that the Irish (thankfully) don't seem to eat the nasty stuff. We did run into some people in Scotland who ate it and Northern English people seemed to like it but I couldn't get past the smell of it to even brave a taste. Branden tasted it but he wasn't able to swallow it. Bleck!!!

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  8. First off, I know the Irish are my people, but how the hell do they not like peanut butter? I'd die without it. That said, you guys are frickin' hysterical!

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  9. Nasty beyond belief? Heathens! Heathens, I say!

    Chocolate and peanut butter together are one of life's great pleasures.

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Does this straitjacket make my butt look big?