Cooking Out & Cooling Off

whew !...What an absolutely exhausting weekend. We have had an awesome past three days.
Saturday, started out kinda normal. The sun was shining and the mercury was rising. We decided since we didn't have an agenda for the weekend, we would host a Memorial Day Bar-B-Q at our house. So after lunch a Cheddar's, we headed over to Wal-Mart to gather up supplies and all the food. We planned to provide everything and asked people just to bring their swim suit, but a few people just wouldnt come empty handed.
Since there was a pic-nic with our church, we got extra ingredients for pasta salad so I could take a batch of it with me on Sunday. I made the first batch on Saturday night so it would be ready for Sunday.
Sunday morning started with church.  Afterwords, the family and I took a drive to Franklin TN to take a look at this years Saint Jude Dream Home. It was immaculate as usual. After spending the afternoon in Nashville, we arrived back in Cookeville by 5pm to attend the church picnic. We had a great time there too. This is the first church that I have attended that I feel "at home" with. Thank goodness we found this church, or better yet, thank goodness this church found us.
We were at the church picnic till 8:30 Sunday night. Brookelynn wasn't with us because we dropped her off at a friends birthday swim party when we got back from Nashville. We had to go back to pick her up after the picnic and her friend came home with us to spend the night.
Stroker and I prepared food until after midnight Sunday night just to be ahead on Monday.
This morning we got up early and set out the tents to try to establish shade for those of us that were not planning to get wet. We got the tables set up, the slide set up and even a bounce house set up before noon.
At 2 pm the guests arrived (all 47 of them ) and the kids all had a blast on the water slide.
The menu today, consisted of Hamburgers, Hotdogs, Ribs, Pork chops, Cowboy beans, 7 layer salad, Veggie Bars, Pasta Salad, Chips,Corn on the cob,sweet tea and canned drinks. Mildred and Nan brought Potato Salad and Macaroni Salad.



The pork chop and hamburger grill

 Nan was assisting with the ribs

 Zander decided that he liked the puddle that the splash had created just as much as the water slide.

Matasia, Zander and Jett decided that scoring points at Cornhole wasn't all that hard.

 Jaiden came in for a big splash

 Heather Scott and Libby

 Jett and Matasia standing in the Splash Zone

The cicada's were loud and obnoxious today, but we ignored them the best we could.