What are best friends for?!

So this weekend I had such a great time! As much as I would like to say it was a nice relaxing weekend I can't. But... I did have a great time and some much needed time with a best friend! I went up to Tuscaloosa to help Kricia with her first non-family/friend catering event! I drove up Thursday night and first thing Friday morning we got up and had some breakfast at Panera Bread. Can I say OMG!?! What an awesome place to get breakfast!! I had never been but will definately go back! If you ever want something sweet for breakfast I recommend the Cinnamon Bagel....yummy!! So after that we went back to the house and started prepping the food for the next day. Kricia's client picked a very large selection of foods for their engagement party.

Everything from Deviled Eggs, Mango Pinapple Salsa, to Caramilized Onion White Cheddar Cheese Dip! We made Italian Subs that were terrific!!! I had a pretty funny moment when it came to the blueberry scones though. I looked at Kricia and asked her if it was okay if the Blueberry's got smashed in the dough. Kricia, thinking I meant just a little bit, said, "Yea.. no problem." She then walked over from what she was doing and said, "OMG.. we are going to have smurf scones! The dough was blueish purple! I felt so bad but we then decided that if that was the only thing that went wrong with this whole experience then we were doing pretty good! They turned out very good though and tasted wonderful. The other awsome thing was that we managed to keep everything very organized as we went along. We didn't have to stop every five minutes to wash something or things like that.

We had everything prepped and in the car except for the food by about 12:00 p.m. The morning of we got up to get ready and load all the food at six. The party was at 10 a.m. so we had to be there no later than 8. We got there and just hit our areas (mine decorating/placing) and Kricia the rest of the food preperation. Everything went so smoothly! There are so many great pictures that I could add to this from all the finished products but I'm going to create a slideshow of all the pictures and post that for everyone to see later. Kricia was able to hand out a few business cards as well so that was great.The other great thing was that the setting we were in was awesome! We were completely surrounded by woods so I took a few minutes once we were done with the party to get a few lanscape shots. I really wish that I would have had a bride to take out and place in the shots.. they would have been amazing but you know.. I'm not really complaining!

So anyway.. this blog is very long at this point. The whole weekend was fabulous.. from the great food and job Kricia did on her first event to the extra experience taking pictures of food and landscape. I hope you all had a great weekend as well! Here is one last lanscape shot for you to finish up with......

Until next time,
Leslie