a Pinterest party

You remember my addiction to 

right?



Well some of my gal pals decided to have ourselves a Pinterest party. 

The rule was you either had to make a recipe from Pinterest OR a recipe you had never tried making before. No golden oldies. None of your go to faves. Had to be sumthin new.

So a couple weeks ago, we had this here party at mi casa.

I made corndog muffins, supreme pizza fondue, chicken alfredo rollups & Andes mint cookies. 
Go to Lyndy's Pinterest Boards to hop on the link to the recipes. The only critique I had with either recipe was the dogs tried to stick to the pan.

Jenny had to get all FANCY PANTS and make table tents for her stuff. She brought cheesecake filled strawberries and lasagna cupcakes (made in muffin tins with won ton wrappers). Both were delish.  

Actually everything we had was delish.

Corn dog muffins, chicken alfredo rollups, supreme pizza fondue w/breadsticks by me

in the middle is the lasagna cupcake by Jenny

at the top right is Doritos taco bake by Brandi

on the right is cheesy chicken chilaquiles (a Pampered Chef recipe) by Bev

Not pictured: 

Andes mint cookies by me (um, I could eat a hundred of those)

Mounds cake by Brandi

Fruit salad by Angela

Lemony angel food cake (a Pampered Chef recipe) by Bev

As you can imagine, we ate ourselves SILLY.

Laughs and giggles courtesy of Angela... 
she was tellin us a tale of an unfortunate incident her friend had that ended up with said friend gettin a broke toof 

Angela and Jenny are always quick to pose for a pic. HAMS.... Ya see Brandi and Bev are a wee bit camera shy... everybody has a friend or two like that, right?  

 good times, good times

After the gals left, there was a little mishap with the pizza fondue...

Add another messy verse to Lyndy's life song...

Army strong

My nephew Caleb has a new title...

Private 

not like I don't want ya in my bizness. . . but in ARMY speak it means he's officially serving our fine country. 

A couple weeks ago he graduated from basic training over in South Carolina. He came home for a minute before going to AIT (his next phase of training in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri). We were able to meet up with him for a bite to eat.

Guess I hafta stop callin' him my little nephew, huh? 

He's a MAN now... all tough and stuff I reckon. 

I'm proud of him. 

Vacation 2012 - Fort Walton/Okaloosa Island

I promise this is my last post recapping vacay. 

SWIMMING POOL

Me & the kiddos jumpin' in together has become a bit of a tradition... 
Anthony bags on us who have to hold our noses... 
oh well ~ sorry we don't dig water up the snout

the cheerleader comin' out in me

Notice Anthony's sister in the lounger above Bryson's head... um yeah, she's not much on swimming... 
she mostly worships THE SUN gettin her tan on

night swimming ~ 

Me & my buddy... 

Out in the big water ~ 

  the ocean

this was Sawyer's first time to dip his toes in the water ~ awww

sunnin & relaxin

homemade recliners in the sand 

...and the fellas had to dig in the sand because the boys wanted to be buried.

and then another day, they wanted to be buried again

it was actually a group effort.... we took turns digging. . . I dug, Joey dug, Papa (Terry) dug, shoot, even the boys dug....

they seem pretty happy to be stuck in the sand, eh? 

and now they play D E A D 

I'm stuuuuuuuck! 

And a few more just because ~ 

I sure could get used to my toes bein in the sand much more often than once or twice a year...

Vacation 2012 - Ft Walton/Okaloosa Island... fun & grins

This here photo tour includes only those shots take on the indoors. 
Mostly in our rooms, but I had to include this first shot because.... 

 This was my father-in-law's 

VERY FIRST TRIP TO WHATABURGER. 

And just so you know, Anthony is loved by these mini men...his nephews 

 There was one of em by his side at all times pretty much 

 Hangin out

Even this little bitty un got some Uncle Anthony time - -  

   

Lotsa times, it was both of the bigger boys under his feet... 

they had been dying to ride in the cart at the condo and of course Anthony eventually gave in. Retaining his title of PUSHOVER...

There was always some amount of wrestling... 

as in every day...  

I was the one who started the standing on your head thing... I used to do that as a little girl in our living room. Just because...

Bryson popped up there like a pro. 

Dawson...not so much. 

Even with the help of his cousins, no can do.

I liked holding Sawyer, the little cuddle bug. Him is sweeeet!

The rare smile of Joey ~

not that he's an unhappy dude...

He's just a bit camera shy I s'pose. 
But I'm patient. 
Very patient. 
And I rarely put my camera down. :-P

One night the childless adults (me and Anth) ended up with all the potty trained kiddos (i.e. they apparently didn't trust us with the babe). So we played Popomatic Trouble. 
And I won. 
Two nights in a row. 
I'm a champ.  

Somebody learned how to hold onto his pacifier on vacation and pull it out, then put it back in.
See?

McKenzie decided to give Memaw (my mother-in-law) a mohawk one night. Funny stuff. 
This may land her on the back page of Glamour (as a don't with the black bar across her eyes).

Joey turned the BIG 4-0 midway through vacay week. He got a burfday cake from the local Walmart bakery (or was it Kroger)? Terry scratched  Joe is ! 40 in it with his finger. Heartfelt. 
Yeah, he put the exclamation point in the wrong place. 

And last but certainly not least...

   the elevator

The boy always battled for position. The position closest to the buttons that is... 

do your kids fight over pushing the button?

I don't get it. I guess I'm too old to get a thrill out of pushing the elevator button.

Ok, so there's your tour of the indoor fun we partook in on the family vacation. 

Check back for beach and pool pics.