Did you miss the outing??
So here's my recap to our awesome time yesterday. :) We had a smaller group than anticipated but we all had such a great time getting to know each other. (sometimes 'smaller' is better!!) We also had *plenty* of really good food!
The husbands and kids were a joy to meet and have around. The kids seemed to absolutely love the beach opportunity. KS4's daughter found a turtle down in the water and captured it for all to see! ..
Discovery and KS you sooo owe us recipes!! :) Feel free to post them here if you'd like.
Everyone who took pictures - I'd love it if you could post a few to the thread. Thanks for posting yours Jayner -- great pic!!! :)
Best news of all, we pretty much decided that we'd love to do this again!! ... Right now the tenative date is July 26th - Saturday - in the Waltham, MA area. NotCasey's mother has an inground pool in the Waltham area so once we have the confirmation that it's okay to use -- we're having a pool party! WOO-HOO!!!! :)
To all that came yesterday, brought food, and helped out. Thank you!!! It was so fun to meet you all. What a great time!
The husbands and kids were a joy to meet and have around. The kids seemed to absolutely love the beach opportunity. KS4's daughter found a turtle down in the water and captured it for all to see! ..
Discovery and KS you sooo owe us recipes!! :) Feel free to post them here if you'd like.
Everyone who took pictures - I'd love it if you could post a few to the thread. Thanks for posting yours Jayner -- great pic!!! :)
Best news of all, we pretty much decided that we'd love to do this again!! ... Right now the tenative date is July 26th - Saturday - in the Waltham, MA area. NotCasey's mother has an inground pool in the Waltham area so once we have the confirmation that it's okay to use -- we're having a pool party! WOO-HOO!!!! :)
To all that came yesterday, brought food, and helped out. Thank you!!! It was so fun to meet you all. What a great time!
It was so nice meeting everyone! I'm glad I dragged my husband along to tend to my children so I could stay up and chat with everyone instead of running after all my little ones. I can't wait to do this again! Here are the photos I have, and a correction to Zaudica's post...it was my daughter that caught the turtle.
Rachel, Dawn, Jayne, Sue, Rachel, Kendra & Jenn
Way to handle that grill Dawn!
My daughter Emma caught a snapping turtle. (She's my nature nut.)
A closer look at "Snappy".
So here's my recipe...Problem is I don't have any measurements (I'll give you my best guess). I just shake until I thinks it's enough. LOL
Kendra's Kielbasa
(2) Kielbasa (I use Healthy Ones Polska Kielbasa w/2.5g of fat, 7g protein)
(1) Softball sized Vidalia Onion
(1) Large Red Pepper
Tastefully Simple Garlic Garlic
Pepper
Butter (I use Promise Light)
Use a large square of tin foil. Dice up your kielbasa, onion and pepper into bite size pieces. Place everything onto the tin foil square. Shake some pepper on. (I use a pepper grinder and turn it about 15 times). Shake a bunch of garlic garlic on (to your taste) and add a small dollup of butter. Fold it up into a pouch then add a few tablespoon of water. Toss on the grill until veggies are tender.
For the batch that I made at the outing, I used four rings of kielbasa, two onions, four peppers, about 1/4 cup butter, 40 cranks of the pepper mill and about 4 tbs of garlic garlic. So glad you all enjoyed it!
Hi guys!
Thanks again for organizing the event...I had fun being able to meet you all face-to-face!
Here is the cheesecake recipe:
2 8oz packages of FF cream cheese
2 Eggs (I use 1/2 C of egg beaters)
1/2 C Splenda
1 tsp vanilla
Keebler reduced fat pie crust (you can certainly make your own)
OPTIONAL: 2 tblsp SF strawberry jelly, 2 tblspn SF/FF pudding mix (you can finagle with this...don't put in the jelly, but add in some chocolate pudding to make it a chocolate cheesecake instead)
Soften cheese...Blend in eggs one at a time...(I use my electric mixer)...Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes depending on your oven. Let cool completely. Refrigerate at least 4 hours...Garnish as desired.
Thanks to my friend Sherri...She gave me this recipe and I finagled a bit!
Z and I had a great time and wished we had more time to get to know everyone. The good news is that I have successfully reserved my mom's pool for July 26th. So, OH Mass meet-up #2 is good to go!!!
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First 5K race October 4, 2009 (34.59) PR 5/22/11 (27:26)
First 5 Mile: January 1, 2011 (50:30)
First 10K: July 4, 2010 (1:03.26) New PR 4/10/11 (1:01.14)
First 10 Mile: April 11, 2010 (1:46.15)
First 1/2 marathon: June 13, 2010 (2:22.21) PR: 5/1/11 (2:17.30)
First Marathon: October 16, 2011: 5:47:20
Goofy Challenge: January 7-8, 2012
If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right. - Mary Kay Ash
First 5K race October 4, 2009 (34.59) PR 5/22/11 (27:26)
First 5 Mile: January 1, 2011 (50:30)
First 10K: July 4, 2010 (1:03.26) New PR 4/10/11 (1:01.14)
First 10 Mile: April 11, 2010 (1:46.15)
First 1/2 marathon: June 13, 2010 (2:22.21) PR: 5/1/11 (2:17.30)
First Marathon: October 16, 2011: 5:47:20
Goofy Challenge: January 7-8, 2012
If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right. - Mary Kay Ash
WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO on the information about the next Get Together! .. I'm so excited! .. :)
Thank you so much Discovery and ks4 for posting the recipes! .. I've copied them into my favorites and am so happy to have them! ..
btw, ks4, Dave and I finished off the keilbsa (sp?) that we took home this afternoon. Mmmmm.. so good!