Sawyer's First Superbowl Party!

Matt's boss' wife had originally planned to have everyone over for a superbowl party on Sunday but then I received a text from Matt on Friday that she had the flu and they were canceling the party. By then, I'd had my heart set on spending Sunday afternoon with lots of fun people and yummy munchies, so I told Matt we'd just move it to our house!

Saturday, I put Matt and the boys to work cleaning the house and finishing up last-minute projects from moving in what...three months ago...maybe 4?

We had a great time and there was so much yummy food! It was also fun to see the Packers win since they're so close to Chicago and we know a couple of die-hard Packer fans.

Here is Sawyer getting ready for his own tackle...

The party gave me a GREAT excuse to try out a new recipe I saw on this fun website!

These were white cake cupcakes with HUGS inside and marshmallow buttercream frosting on top. Boy, were these a hit!

One more picture in case the last picture didn't make you salivate!
We also made Hawaiian bread sliders...super delish and the kids enjoyed burgers THEIR size!
Another kid favorite...cocktail weenies in a blanket!
You're salivating now, aren't you???

And last but not least, Matt made a homemade pizza that was A-W-E-S-O-M-E!

His dough recipe called for beer but Matt didn't feel comfortable buying beer so he bought O'Douls! Funny, I know!

This was a bacon and pineapple pizza but by the time it was done, most of us were way too stuffed to eat it! Thank heavens for half-time!!!

Unfortunately, I was lulled into a food-induced coma and that's all the pictures I have of the rest of the evening!

What Snow???

Throughout the week, we've been hearing and reading on Facebook and other friends' blogs about snow...Snowmaggedon, blah, blah, blah, snowpocalypse, blah, blah, no school snow days, yadda, yadda, you get the point.

Quinton keeps asking when we're going to get snow and happily, I reply, "It doesn't snow in MOBILE!" I have found MY silver lining in this not-so-cloudy town!

So for all of you snowed-in, spring-feverish friends out there, I give you pictures of a little outing from last weekend when the temps here were in the 70s...yeah, you heard me!

We took the opportunity for such a nice day to go to Dauphin Island, about 30 minutes south of our place. It is a small island where a bunch of the houses are on stilts. We did a little photo shoot for some family pictures.
Here is our little family!
Luckily, a nice woman sitting nearby came and took some pictures for us since it's hard to get Sawyer's attention with the 'timer' feature on the camera.

Matt and Sawyer love this game of throwing Sawyer up into the air!

My dad made the comment that Sawyer looks like a kite in this picture!

Quinton and me...I am THOROUGHLY enjoying wearing sunglasses and not my eyeglasses anymore! We LOVED playing in the sand and just enjoying our new surroundings!

I think Sawyer was winking at me, what do you think?

This isn't a close up, it's him winking at me again!

This is at one end of the Island at Fort Conde. It was pretty cool to check out and to the left of where this picture was taken, there is a ferry that takes cars and people to the other side of Mobile Bay. I'm hoping one of our next excursions is taking the ferry...I think the boys would LOVE it!

Although the water was too cold to swim, it was still a perfect day of playing in the sand, having a picnic and going for a bike ride.

For several reasons, I don't exactly love our new town yet, but spending the day at the beach with all three of my boys in JANUARY was wonderful and makes me like this place just a little more than I did before. Of course, after this week's blizzard across the midwest, I like this place a lot more!

P.S. To all our frozen friends: We have space if you want to come thaw out!