I didn't get to watch most of the game - I was in the kitchen alot, and trying to get around and visit with all the young people. We had a house full! Our college age kids class at church, well they range from 18 to early 20's, single, and they've been slowly growing this class. Most of the kids that grew up at our church have gone off to college which leaves a handful of "homies" and we're gradually picking up a few from UT-Tyler and Tyler Jr. College. We had the class teacher/sponsor and his wife, another adult couple helping out with food and me and Tony AND about 20 young people. Our church had an early evening service at 3:30 and everybody came over to our house after the devo.
I had ordered 4 family size pizzas from Papa Murphy's, which is the ONLY place to get pizza nowadays. THank goodness for a double oven! We went to Wingstop and picked up buckets of hot wings, we had smoked sausage in the chafing dish (which we don't get to use much so this was a great opportunity). I had made a huge bowl of homemade salsa, tons of chips and layered Mexican dip, veggies and crackers and M&M's and "trash" all scattered around. AND we had 4 desserts. My favorite was the Sopapilla Cheesecake that my son's girlfriend Lindsey made. I personally taste-tested it 3-4 times to make sure it was edible for the kids to eat. The cutest dessert prize goes to Tara! She brought 2 homemade little single layer cakes that were decorated for each team! One was white with a blue horseshoe and the other was gold with the black fleur de lis! They were so cute & I appreciated her thoughtfulness and the time she put into those cakes!
The kids got a huge kick out of our "redneck cooler". Tony put all the soft drinks and water bottles in the washing machine and iced 'em all down good. The laundry room is right next to the kitchen, so it was fun to see the kids all digging in the washing machine getting their drinks! Very easy, and easy to empty! No hassle whatsoever! And the washing machine is clean and you don't have to worry about cleaning out your cooler!
Sooooo, we all surfed the food island and bar and washing machine all evening and stuffed our faces and sprawled out on the couches, chairs and floor and hooted and hollered for our teams - it was a mixed crowd on teams. Lots of yelling and shuffling and scuffling but can you believe it? NOTHING WAS SPILLED ON CARPET OR FURNITURE! Wow - they did good! I had even put a Mexican blanket on the coffee table so they could eat there & I wouldn't have to worry about it! A couple of the guys played soccer out in the front yard until dark - they weren't real interested in the game. I think everyone had a good time.
Sad part is --- don't be mad - I left my stupid camera in my car which we had left at the church building. We had planned on going back to get it before the game and we ran out of time. I'm so sad that I don't have any pictures to show you!!! (I slyly thought that I'd put this part at the end of my post so you would have to read it all to the end to find the pictures. If I put it at the beginning, you might not read the post! Sorry!) So I'm going to post a picture for you that has absolutely NOTHING to do with this SuperBowl post!
I hope ya'll have a great day. Looks like we're in for more bad weather. I set out my potatoes Saturday and some cabbage and broccoli. May be too soon. I hope they make it - we're supposed to have freezing weather again this week. Hey, Lowe's has the broccoli and cabbage plants setting outside already. Help me people - do you think they'll make it?
