Family

Hey guy!

So my family is a super important thing to me and so when we get a chance to all get together it's always a fun time. My family is from Wisconsin so obviously we LOVE the Packers. Weekends are huge for us during the football season because not only are we Packer fans, we are also Badger fans. Every weekend we have different traditions that we follow. On Saturday, the women hurry and clean the house. The whole while and the men do whatever it is they do outside. Then once the college games start, it's to the living room to watch the big games. On Sundays, my and sister and I wake up early to get started on the food. We make tons of snack foods like guyacamole with chips, cheese, meat and chracker tray, little smokies, bacon wrapped watter chestnuts, mozarella sticks and much more. Then we all grab a plate and gravitate to the living room to watch the Packer game. Then depending on the time of the game, we take naps. With all the snacks in the house, we get to eat all day long and just have fun. Throughout the day there are claps and screams coming from the living room. Game days are so fun in the Solorio house and really intense.

But, the best part of it all...is New Years Day. Usually the Badgers are playing in a bowl. This time the entire family gathers at my aunts house. That's my family, my moms brothers and their families, my grandparents, my great aunt's and uncles and my great grandfather who turned 92 years old on December 7^th, Pearl harbor day. Everyone brings a snack food to share with everyone. But the part that is the best is the food yet to come. The mem all gather in the garage around a seafood boiler. They make a seafood boil like you can't imagine. It's small baby potatoes, baby onions and carrots, shrimp, crab, fish, scallops and lobster tails all cooked together. Then they bring it in the house in big roasters once it's done cooking and we all dig in. You put melted butter over it and enjoy along with all the other great foods that have been prepared to go with it. Then when we are done eating, we clean up and get ready for a good game of Solo. It's a card game that not very many have ever heard of and that I would never be able to explain in a blog. It's one of those games that you just have to jump I and play to understand. Everyone stays all day and then goes home for the evening, fat, sassy and ready for a good nights sleep! (459)

Ardeeemilla(: