Last minute BBQ, etc.

This just happened this morning, I checked on him a couple times and he was doing something different every time with his cars. I was soooo cute and amazing to see my "baby" doing it.

A NEW POOL FOR BRAX!

He was so excited when he realized what was going on at the store. I told him exactly what we where we were going to go and what we would be doing a couple times. "Go to walmart get dog food and a swimming pool to play in the water."

Well all he heard was play in the water, he assumed that we were going to the fun splash park. When we pulled up to Wal-mart he started screaming, "No water! water!" So I explained again and then we went inside, he saw the fish and got the dog food. Then I took him out to the garden center to get the pool. When he saw them he got really excited. So I let him get out and choose his new pool color. He chose green out of yellow, blue, green and orange.

So I'm glad I had the trailblazer, the thing barely fit in the car! If I would of had my car I would have been in a pickle.

So he helped me hold onto it while we walked to the car.

Helped me put it in the car.

Then wouldn't stop talking about the "waters" the whole way home.

Then helped me carry it into the back yard.

He ripped off his clothes so fast to get his swimsuit on... it was so cute.

After about 45 minutes of swimming with mom he wanted to come in for lunch and then downed 2 1/2 hot dogs with chips.

Okay, Brandon came home Friday night and told me that all the guys wanted to do a BBQ for Memorial Day Weekend Saturday night or the next night! So he told me to plan on 20 guys who average in age from 19-24 plus a few wives and kids! I said okay and then not thinking at all what I had just said I offered to do it here at our house instead at the pool. That way we wouldn't have to put up with other people and I would have a kitchen.(it keeps underlining and I can't get it to stop, ugh)

GOOD THING I LIKE TO DO CATERING, BUT THIS SHORT NOTICE WAS A LITTLE OVERWHELMING.

Well, that night I realized what I had just gotten myself into, in the next 19 hours I had to have a whole meal planned, bought, prepared, and ready to eat for 25 people on only $100.00.

So I planned it out and looked through my ads to get the best deals the next morning.

So I wanted to get out to the stores by 7:30am, but it didn’t work that way. I didn’t leave the house till 9am. So I spent 2 hours shopping for all the food. And I got it ALL for $99.25!! I was happy with that!

Alright now, I unpacked the car and put brax down in his bed ( he fell asleep in the car, thank heavens) and then looked at the clock it was 11:30am. I had 7 ½ hours to get everything prepared and cooked. Along with my house presentable.

So since I had such a giant dinner to prepare in such short time, I took a pics of most of the stuff I did.

This is all the the chicken I got. Around 30lbs breasts! But they had the bone-in and had skin. So I skinned all the breasts and organized all 48 legs so that I could bake them throughly before we fried them to make them crispy and dressed them with the buffalo wing sauce I made.

I got the breasts for .77 per lb and the legs were .74 per lb.

Made the marinade for the breasts and coated them mixing them up to get them all coated evenly every 2 hours.

Now onto the Dessert

I made up a "Chocolate Fudge Peanut Butter Trifle"

I wanted to get it done so that it would have time to cool and set up properly for the flavors to mesh together.

Made the Peanut Butter Pie filling

After the cake was baked and cooled I sliced it up into bit size cubes

Then started to layer all the ingredients in this order:

Cake, PB Pie, Hot Fudge, Carmel Sauce, Cool whip.

Repeat

Potato Salad

First I peeled, washed and cubed 5lbs of potatoes.

Then boiled them in 2 pots.

While the potatoes were cooking I chopped up all the veggies for the salad.

Which were Green onions, Celery, and Cucumber.

Along with a can of olives and some cheese cubes.

I also bought 3 packages of Bratz for 2.99 ea. and 1 pkg of hot dogs (for the kids) for .58

6 bottles of BBQ Sauce for .88 ea.

and 3 cans of Baked Beans for 1.66 ea.

and I also got 2 bags of Lays potato chips for 1.77 ea.

A medium size Seedless Watermelon for $2.88.

Which I also slice up and then stacked.

Some of the finished products!

Potato Salad

which disappeared a lot faster that I thought it would.

Bratz

Chocolate Fudge PB Dessert

I didn't get a picture of the Hot Legs they disappeared so quickly, So here is some chicken breast pieces with the buffalo sauce on them. They were amazing!

The BBQ Chicken

and 24 Grilled Corn on the Cob!

6 for $1

After all that preparing, cooking, etc.

I realized that I had done it.

I was quite impressed with myself at the moment, that I had done all this by myself.

I also had :3 qts of Koolaid mixed with 3 cans of squirt

2 liters of A&W root beer

4 liters of Pepsi

The small item's I bought within budget:

ketchup

relish

ranch

hot dog buns

olives

celery

onions

Plates

utensils

napkins

cups

Majority of the guys watching the end of the game.

(sorry the pic is so bad)

After the game was over and everyone was starting to leave Parker and Dallas took turns tossing Brax around in his room. Brax was in heaven and if they tried to leave the room, he would have a melt down.

Tyson also went in with him and watched the end of his Your Baby Can Read video and did all the actions with him, like row your boat and head, shoulders, knees and toes. Brax LOVES all three of these guys. I didn't catch a pic of Tyson with him I was busy cleaning up.

So this is Parker.

And here is Dallas, Dallas said that he was a scary kid and he really is when he gets in his swords/dinosaur playing mode. He is quite frightening you have to watch him really careful or you'll get hit pretty hard or tackled when your not expecting it.