Planning for Our One Year Anniversary BBQ!

This weekend marks many firsts for us.

First house guest visiting for the weekend, first BBQ we're having in the Springs, 

AND FIRST ANNIVERSARY.  

Sounds like it's time for a celebration to me!

Our house guest is our friend Taylor.  She arrived from the East Coast today and will be here through Tuesday.  She and Will tackled the grocery shopping today and did AMAZINGLY well...I had been worried, as I mentioned in the last post, but in all honesty-I think they did as good or better than I would have done!  Maybe I should let Will do the grocery shopping more often ;)

We got everything spotlessly clean on Thursday and then spent yesterday evening catching up over dinner, finishing some last minute decorating and I went ahead and made banana pudding for tomorrow! (I wanted to make sure the 'nilla wafers soaked up the pudding...yum) The decorating was the fun part, though. Will and I had decided a long time ago, that we wanted a gallery wall in the kitchen, but hadn't been able to get to it yet.  I am now happy to say, we've got it finished and we LOVE it!  I will definately have to post about it!  It's gonna look great for the party.

   Wanna know what's on the menu?

Will's WORLD famous ribs!
 I promise that you have never had anything like them.

Burgers and dogs of course...

Chips and my famous layered dip...

A mediterranean Bean salad...

Bruschetta...

Fruit salad...

Banana Puddin'...

Veggie tray with a great new dip I found...

And Will's fave:  My Cold Noodle Asian Salad (made with spaghetti squash.)

Basically, I didn't go grocery shopping for the past two weeks, so that we could wine and dine our guests. Go big or go home.

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter Weekend! 

 I will be posting the big FINALE tomorrow for our Anniversary!  Come back and see!