War Tide!
While we've owned our house for almost 2 years, we've spent much of our time renovating it and 'making it ours'. This has left little time for anything else...especially entertaining. We frequently have friends over, but really just to hang out for small periods of time.
This past weekend we had our first official ‘gathering of the group’ to watch some pigskin and eat some cow. Actually there was very little cow involved. Mostly we had veggies. More on that in a sec.
Owen and I live in a house divided. I hate that term, but there’s really no getting away from it. I went to THE Loveliest Village on the Plains for undergrad, and Owen went to that other school for undergrad and grad school. But because I refuse to live our lives being ‘a house divided,’ there are only a few mementos of the 2 schools in our house. I just paint the walls blue instead. (Orange isn’t really in at the moment or I’d have orange walls to!) Oh, and we went to rival high schools too. But we don’t really keep tabs on that.
Anywho…while the O-ster was working Saturday, I watched the Auburn game and cleaned house and cooked. Auburn may have won, but we’ve got some work to do if we want to make it number 7.
My house cleaning adventure was quite a whirlwind. I piddled around until I was almost out of time. But I found some time saving shortcuts that really saved the day. And my favorite cleaning products were a big help too. Look for a post on those later! Being the clean freak that I am, I LOVE finding time saving but good cleaning products!!
Here’s a snippet of the yummy grub I whipped up:
Redneck Caviar
BBQ Biscuit Cups (aka “those cups of meat”)
Ham & Turkey Roll Ups
Veggies and Spinach Dip (courtesy of Publix)
Mini Chocolate Chip Cookie Pies
Well I guess that’s not really a snippet. That’s pretty much everything. The Ham & Turkey Roll Ups were the biggest hit (Thanks Dianna!!). They were the only item that yielded zero leftovers. I’m still learning the quantity piece of entertaining. I made way too much food! But at least we’ll have some leftovers to munch on for the week!
Our friends Mike and Jennifer brought baby Jack (about 18 months old? – I can’t remember Jenn) over to play. He’s the cutest little rugrat!! He and Tasmo had a ball playing together. Literally. Jack brought a ball to play with, and the Monkey decided it belonged to him. It lasted about 20 minutes before Tas popped it. But Jack didn’t mind. He just took Tas’ bone from him and threw that instead! It was the first time Tas had really had an open opportunity to play with someone his size. He’s been around kids before, but we’ve been very careful to shield them from his antics. But Saturday he proved that he can hang with kids no problem. After Jack had a mini chocolate chip pie, Tas made sure his hands and face were clean as a whistle! Jack would run around the house and Tas would just chase him. Then they’d turn around and Jack would chase Tas. There were a few ‘uh-ohs’ when Tas knocked Jack over, but not a tear was shed! He’s such a fun little rascal! (Jack, not Tas…well Tas is fun too, but you know what I mean!)
After the game, a few folks stayed to play a round of cards. Kim had beginner’s luck and won the whole game. Congrats Kim! Although I think she was bluffing on her beginner status!! Either that or she’s watched to many poker tourneys on TV!
After everyone left, we had a nice chat with our neighbors who were also still up! It was about 2am by this point!! Then O and I watched the game again before calling it a night.
Here are some snapshots of O and I singing Kumbaya to everyone after the game.
Although this is what it looked like, this isn't the actual spider, but might as well be. (And there was really only one)...but the web was MUCH bigger than my head, and he almost had me for dinner. If Tas hadn't run out without his collar on and forced me to chase after him, I would've been spider munchies for sure!!
