The Big Party

Whew, is it Monday already?  I need another weekend to recover from the weekend.  It was fun, crazy, tiring, and memorable.

  Scott and I love to entertain.  In our Pre-Ava days, we’d have cocktail parties, dinner parties, Christmas parties, you name it.  None though, that wore me out as much as having 10 toddlers/ young children and 12 adults over for 3 hours yesterday afternoon.  We celebrated Ava’s first birthday with kids, cake, candles, and cocktails (for the adults!)  It was a Baby-Que.  (aka Bar-b-que with lots of babies.)

A snack before the big party.

 

Friends…

Time for cake!

 

Having a pre-bed bottle after all the excitement was over. 

      

I didn’t get pictures of the food, because …really, it was just to frantic to get the food out as the kids waited and were under foot.  Typical baby-que bar-b-que food;  burgers, potato salad, homemade baked beans, chips and watermelon. 

Here’s my plate:

I forgot to add the homemade baked beans until after I quickly took the photo.  The only new recipe was the Spring Garden Potato Salad.   A recipe from the Foodnetwork, it was amazingly fresh and light for a potato salad.  Loved the herbs and inclusion of cucumber, grape tomatoes, radishes, and carrots.