Chip and Erin: Labor Day Weekend

For Labor Day weekend, a bunch of Chip's friends from Louisiana Tech came down to Pensacola. The weather was horrible due the tropical storm that was with us ALL weekend... But we didn't let it get us down! Playing volleyball, ultimate frisbee, and football in the pouring down rain on Saturday was amazing!! That night, we had everybody over for the LSU vs Oregon game and ordered pizza! On Sunday, the boys all went to the beach, but I figured it was going to be miserable so I stayed behind and I was right... They lasted about an hour or two and came back because they said they couldn't even see because sand kept hitting their faces! :)

The best part of the weekend for me was I had a bunch of "guinea pigs".... I love hosting and I love cooking so I tried all new recipes that I had never cooked before. With this group of guys, I knew they would eat anything so it would be hard to go wrong! Two of the recipes I tried were from this new crock pot website I found that it is awesome!! Its called Crockpotgirls.com and I cooked the Western Omelet Casserole for breakfast one morning and I cooked the Cheesy Chicken one night for supper! I also made the famous Haystacks (Chip's favorite) for the first time along with my Meemaws Honeybun Cake! Ohhh... and I cant forget my sister's recipe of Buffalo Chicken Dip for the LSU vs Oregon game!! Just call me Betty Crocker! :) Well, okay okay... it didn't ALL go perfectly! I decided to make my Mom's awesome breakfast casserole on Monday morning before everyone went back home... I didn't read the recipe until that morning at 8:00 (*MISTAKE*) and I was supposed to prepare it the night before and refrigerate overnight before I cooked it the next morning... The eggs in the casserole were a little runny, but thankfully we had some hungry boys that it didn't stop from eating it! HAHA Lesson learned for me though!!

So despite the weather, we made Labor Day 2011 very memorable.