Derby Party

Ready for company....monster cookies and flowers from the yard.
I believe all the girls are in one of these pictures or the other.

Love the look of the faces as the horses get ready to load....

I love having friends that are "closer than a brother". They are the ones that you don't have to "say the right thing" around. Look a certain way to impress (it's not about me:), or do anything other than just open up your home. They come, they bring food:), sit, chat, play yard games, or just do nothing at all. Today with the weather "iffy", we were afraid to set up outside. So we pulled out the table leaf, set up the patio table, and waited to see if rain was coming or not. As it turned out, we were able to sit on the patio (half of us) and the other half sat around the TV in the FR watching pre-race festivities. Then, as they called them to the post, we all converged in the family room/kitchen area and yelled for the horse of our choice. We had a commemorative glass for the winning horse (David G.), a potted red mini rose for second, Susan W., and for third place a box of bourbon balls went to Cheryl B.

For our menu, we had pulled chicken, cole slaw, broccoli salad (Julie's signature dish), pasta salad, baked beans, chips/dip, fresh fruit, dressed eggs, cookies, and two big desserts. Yummo!