We bought our house in August, but with moving in and the holidays around the corner, we didn't find a good time to have a housewarming. Therefore, we decided to wait until Spring to have a little something. This past weekend we had a Housewarming/BBQ Potluck and had such a great time. We've only been living in Houston for a year, but we are so blessed to have met such welcoming and wonderful people. Making friends in Houston has really made all the difference, not to mention all of our awesome neighbors.
We decided to have a little fun at our party, so we had the "2011 Delish Dish" contest where guest could enter a favorite dish for a prize. We had four categories; Meat Sweats, Tossed and Mixed, Best Dessert and Burger Warrior. It was fun to see everyone cast their votes at the end. I almost forgot to mention, we had a Margarita Machine at our party and let me tell you, that thing was a HIT!
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| 2011 Delish Dish winners R-L - Kristine, Dessert - Death by Chocolate; Dana, Tossed and Mixed, Philipino Chicken Wings, Ruben, Meat Sweats - Smoked Ribs; Stephanie, Tossed and Mixed, Pizza Bread. No Burger Winner, Everyone was stuffed! |
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| Rubi and Tiffany |
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| Ella Lee Neighbors |
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| The HIT of the party |
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| Victoria getting her cheesecake ready for the contest |
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| JP and Michelle |
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| Making new friends |
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| Jeff, James and Nicole |
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| More neighbors and our new friends, Mike, Marsha and little Landon (he's busy looking at Millie) |
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| JP, Stephanie (my awesome trainer), Victoria and I |
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| More neighbors! |
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| Ruben making sure his Ribs are doing OK |
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| Tons of food |
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| Buddies |
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| Mike saved the day by bringing his game from Ohio |
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| Max Waters 'nuff said |
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| Bottle and Book Club members (more bottle than book, we have yet to read one!) |
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| Kristine and Steve |
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| Pier 1 - isn't it cute?! |
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| My hubs |
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| Walker, cutest little guy! |
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| Making sure Ryan doesn't cheat |
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| Our new Tennis Club friends, Paige and Chris with their little guys, Walker and Hudson |
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| Rubi making sure the kids (Katie and Gracie) eat something |
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| Watching Tiger on T.V |
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| Galinsky's are jokesters |
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| My Millie |
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| More Tiger. . . |
It seems your blog filtered and then rented a space in my brain. I had a dream last night... I was able to visit you and Steve at your home in Houston. We were so happy to see each other. You gave me a tour through "your" home. I loved it and it was great to be able to be part of one of your homes:) So now I have Mel on the brain like crazy. MISS YOU TONS, MY LOVE/bff/fave suckface!!!
ReplyDeleteHow fun & super creative.
ReplyDeleteIt is refreshing to know the a/c & white picket fences aren't keeping people from meeting their neighbors :)