Monday, July 25, 2011

Oak Island 2011

We celebrated the 4th of July at the beach again this year at Oak Island.  With perfect beach weather, great company (the CRUZES!), lots of good food, and lots of Dominion tournaments, it was the perfect week.

Scott started something that I'm sure will be a continued tradition at the beach....night crab catching.  He took the kids down to the beach one night with one flashlight, a bucket and a net.  When they all came back to the beach house, no one could stop talking about catching crabs.  There was this awesomely spooky heat lightening that night, so that, combined with crabs darting toward you in the dark was pretty exciting.  We all went the next night and it was just as exciting as the kids described.  David held the flashlight, Trey held the net and caught any poor crab that happened to come across our beam and then Scott would pick it up and put it in the bucket.  The best part was when the kids would gather around the net watching when all of a sudden the crab would get away and go right toward them, sending everyone, including me, screaming and running.  I wish I had some pictures of that adventure.




 Afton became everybody's friend!!
My favorite beach moment was when Sydney surprised me by buying me an icee on the beach with her own money.  And then she wouldn't let anyone take any bites of it. (:

Last year Trey and Lydia became beach buddies.  I'm not sure it happened, but Lydia always hung out with Trey in the water.  This year it seemed like Lydia remembered this and they has some more Lydia/Trey beach time.








Wednesday, July 20, 2011

CHOPPED, Father's Day Edition



Sydney has been a avid viewer of the show "chopped" forever.  And she has been begging me to let her do a "chopped" competition for just as long.  When the Langford's blogged about doing one, I knew I could no longer put it off.  We decided to do a special Father's Day version.  So the competition began.  The mystery ingredients that were required to be used in their desserts were:  Peanut butter, frosted flakes and cinnamon.

Meet the contestants:

TEAM ALLIE/SYDNEY






TEAM TREY/TANNER:



Final Products:
Can you tell which one belongs to who?  The boys made a chocolate cake with straight peanut butter for icing.  They used the cinnamon in the cake mix and made a smiley face out of the frosted flakes and some marshmellow cream on top.  The girls made chocolate cupcakes and mixed the peanut butter with cream cheese frosting and using it inside the cupcake and on top with frosted flakes as a crumble.  They also made a smootie with various melted chocolates drizzled on top.  Connor helped David and I judge......and the winner was........ the girls.


Congratulations to the chefs!

Monday, July 18, 2011

Taylor Swift Concert!

Taylor Swift has been a long time favorite in our house, so we were so excited to be able to get tickets to her concert in Knoxville.  It's so nice to be able to attend a wholesome concert with your teenagers and see the smile never leave their faces the whole night!



                                                   Eating at Tomato Head before the concert