ABF Fried Food Fair Inspired Cook Off

Last Saturday, a sweet friend from our ABF and I hosted our first ABF Fried Food Cook Off. From pinterest and fair inspired decor, salty and sweet fried food options, and fun family photo opts, it was an absolute blast! Enjoy pictures from our evening together. 

  

 My handmade signs 

 fall decor

 tasty nacho cheese popcorn

 photo booth fun (I love great dollar store finds!)

 My fabulous husband and I

delicious eats

 

 The Hanks making fried squash and fried green beans

 Our friends at the fry stations
and Michelle, my fabulous co-hostess:)

 Fried Avacado and homemade dip- Tom

 Fried Green Beans- Amy and Colin

 Fried Strawberry Cake Balls- Zellners

  Fried bananas- Hutchisons

 Fried Jalapeno Thingies- Links

 Fried Onion Rings- Goodings

 Denise and Chase

 Joel and baby Landry 

 Carissa, her little man Landry, and Jenny 

Fun with Pearson

 Joel won ring toss... twice :) 

 Jenny and Tim Hare- Fried Peanut Butter Cups 

After a few hours of great conversation and frying delicious creations, it was time to officially taste test.

 Colin and Amy

 Katy sampling the onion rings

After taste testing all of our great creations, we were able to select one salty and one sweet food. While all the food was really good, the salty choice was fried avacados and homemade dip. The dip was a mix of salsa and cream cheese. YUM! The sweet option came down to a tie between fried strawberry cake pops and fried peanut butter cups. A ring toss duel between the men went into effect. When the score was still tied, it went down to paper, rock, scissors. Tim Hare and his fried peanut butter cups were victorious.

 Tim and Ray battle it out in a ring toss.

 Salty v. Sweet Winners and their prizes.

Part of our night involved pinterest inspired photo booth fun. Here are our guests at our fried food cook off.

The Links and Mr. Pearson

 The Goodings 

 The Howards and baby Landry

 The Hares

 The Hutchisons and little Parker (expected Nov)
My co-host for our party:)

 Our beautiful ABF Ladies

Our fried food fun began to come to a close, but not without a win from our Aggies. 

 Some of my sweet Aggie ABF ladies

What an amazing night of fried food and ABF fun!  I am so excited for all of our fall fun actibvities this year. Look forward to many more posts to come. 



Sunday

... The first weekend it officially felt like Fall.
... I wore my winter boots 2 days in a row!
... I am kind of in love with my burgundy scarf from Target. It is my favorite:)
... Ray and I awoke at 6:30AM for an 8:00 meeting with our ENGAGE directors for breakfast at church.
... It was our turn to bring breakfast to our ABF.
... I think this was the first weekend we were early to ABF.
... Due to a fabulous Fried Food Cook Off and and a few extra hours at the office, Ray took a 4 hour nap that afternoon.
... I enjoyed an hour of blogging.
... I updated my lesson plans.
... We were dogless for the weekend. We sure missed our furbabes but did enjoy some extra cuddle time without our hairballs.
... The husband and I enjoyed our weekly Skype date with my mama.
... We made soup to stay warm.
... We turned off the a/c for the past two days. I love saving money on our electric bill.
... I gave the extra balloons from our Fried Food Cook Off to our neighbors' kids. It's definitely about little excitements.
... Man look at those bags under my eyes. I am for sure carrying some extra luggage;) lol
... Ray will soon be sporting glasses.:)
... We watched a new episode of Dexter.
... I went to bed at a good hour so I could rise early in the morning.

Happy Sunday Friends:)

ABF Fried Food Cook Off Preview

Last year during fair time, a sweet friend from ABF and I decided that a fun fried food cook off was in order. After much time and preparation, the date was set, the decor pieces had been purchased, and the menu prepared. From sweet and salty fried food options, ring toss, and fun family photo opts, our fabulous fried food cook off was an absolute hit! Here is a preview of our ABF Fried Food Cook Off.

More pictures to come... :)

29 Candles and Karaoke!

Our Duckee Duke turned 29 this past Wednesday. In honor of these 29 candles, we met up with friends at Sherlocks in Addison to celebrate. After a few rounds of great conversation and catch up, it was casually mentioned that we should head over to Family Karaoke. I love Family Karaoke. It is one of our group's favorite places. I mean really. What can be better than having your own room to sing and dance the night away. And if it's someones birthday they include balloons free of charge and a friendly photo opt. So moments after the suggestion, I was on it. The room was booked and we were in route and ready to party.  I think facebook said it best about our night...

"Celebrating my girl Duckee! Family Karaoke it is!!! Bring on Toto, Journey, and Sister Hazel. Sending love to our birthday girl and to our friends that are just like family."

It was a time of great celebration. So much in fact, when we looked at the time it was past 1:30AM and I couldn't believe how late we had made it. Enjoy some pictures of the celebration!

Celebrating with the birthday girl:)

 Ring that bell! 

 My honey and I

 Duckee and the boys

 Steph and some of her gals

 Mike and Ray

Ray and Adam

Here's to another year of love and laughs:) We truly enjoyed celebrating with you!