First party at our new house!

Yesterday Travis and I had our housewarming party. It was a lot of fun. I had been kind of worried about it because it really is the first party I’ve ever thrown by myself. I have always either had my  mom helping me or other friends. But this one was just me (and Trav–but he didn’t help that much with the food…more on that in a little bit).

We were expecting about 30 people to show (a lot of our friends from church and my work couldn’t make it so it was a smaller crowd than we would’ve liked but it was still fun!. I was terrified of running out of food so of course I made too much. I was planning on getting up early so I could have my morning coffee, read the Bible, maybe have time to go on a run. But I got up at 9:30 instead so I booked it to the grocery store and started making the food by 11:00 (luckily I had cleaned the night before and the party didn’t start until 4:00).

I roped Travis into helping because I was feeling the time crunch (once again, unnecessarily anxious). He started working on the mini-cheesecakes while I started working on the veggie pizza. I put the crescent rolls into the oven and went to get the cream cheese out of the fridge so I could start on the dip for the pizza. There was no cream cheese in the fridge. “You used all of the cream cheese?” I accused Travis. “Wasn’t I supposed to?” Travis asked. “I said to only use 5. You used 7.” “You didn’t say that.” “Yes, I did. You just weren’t listening.” “Well, that may be true but I was trying to follow the recipe. I just got in a groove and dumped them all in there.”

Yes, all those things were said. No, they were not said in that way. We really yelled at each other and I threatened to disappear for the whole day and not only not make any food for the party, I wouldn’t even show up. “Your personality won’t let you do that,” Travis said. That pissed me off even more. I wish I could say that I reacted in a very loving, Christ-like manner but I didn’t. I just yelled at Travis to go to Target and buy me more cream cheese.

Since I had bought 7 tubs of cream cheese, Travis got the last 2 they had–we cleaned them out of the generic light cream cheese. But luckily, the mini-cheesecakes and the veggie pizza both turned out and the food was a hit.

The spread

The fruit

The hors d'ouevres

Close-up of the mini cheesecakes

The veggie pizza

The mexican dip, served with tortilla chips

Lil Smokies

Our new little plant

The napkins--so fitting huh!

The outdoor seating

Me and Trav before the party

Another pic of me and Trav

Trav and our camping buddies (his work friends)