Have you ever ate a DIXIE dinner?

Well, neither had our family until the Hunt's invited us to one. It was very interesting. Patrice handed out oranges and then told us a story about how the Saints who lived in the Santa Clara Tonaquint area had never had the color orange except for the oranges that were given each Christmas because the dye was not contiguous to the area (think-red mountains, sage brush, trees, grass, weeds, yup! No orange!)

Then we were handed Baked potatoes and told about how the Saints had these to keep them warm in a very rainy season. So we ate our baked potatoes probably a little different than the saints did we got to add cheddar cheese, Bacon bits, ranch (not me,) and butter to them. Yummy!

Then we had Dixie Sa'la'd: the salad the Hunt's had wasn't the exact Dixie Sa'la'd recipe because it was missing the Pomegranate seeds, but it was yummy too. We also had a story about that one too!



It is a tradition that they Hunts do every year, we ate our food sitting on blankets in their living room and listened to the stories. Then we played games and finished the evening with a Christmas Carol sing-a-long (or in Matt's case, a listen-a-long.)And to top it off our Neighbor's the Simpson's came delivered treats to us and the Hunts and also sang us a song about BYU being divine! (Mark Simpson is one of Matt's policemen, he has a lot of fun teasing Matt about the BYU/Utah game.)

All in all, it was a really nice night!