City Day!

Today, my Mom, sister and I are three ladies on a mission!

A shopping mission that is! We're off on our adventure to New York City!

Have any good restaurant recommendations that we need to check out? We're big "Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives" fans in our house so we scoped out a few of those features in NYC! 

Definitely let me know what your city favorites are!!

xxKatie (+ fam!)

Orbitz coupons are always available; visit NYC soon!

HAPPY 21st COLLEEN!

"Your birthday's OCTOBER 11th?!"

"Hallie, we're not like sisters, we're like TWINS!"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ONE OF MY MOST FAVORITE PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!

I can't wait to celebrate tonight!!

One of my favorite nights with ya bitty!

From trips to the Cape, to Columbia, to Krispy Kreme, to the VC here's to your best year yet!!! I am SO EXCITED for the rest of the year and to celebrate tonight with you!!! 

Weekly Gratitude

1. I am thankful today is Saturday because thanks to Rebecca Black, we know that Sunday comes after Saturday and I get to leave on SUNDAY!

2. I am thankful that my wonderful, loving parents took me back this summer. I feel like I was so busy I hardly got to take an extra breath, but they put up with me, school, a crazy work schedule and all kinds of girl drama.

3. I am thankful that my sister and I got to spend another summer together. Everything is SO completely different than it was just a year ago and I'm glad I get to spend some extra time with her because before we know it she'll be heading off to college!

4. I am thankful that all my friends are literally going to be within a spitting distance of me in a matter of hours. I plan on seeing everyone within my first week back. Mark. My. Words. Y'all. (Read: you'll get lots of hugs and maybe tears and lots of jumping!)

5. I am thankful for the close friends I have here at home. They have filled voids, made me laugh, helped me through crazy situations this summer, and most of all, listened to me and my craziness. All of it.

6. I am thankful today is my last day of work at the Pink Crab (but I will miss it tons!). I have had the best summer ever working this year, loading up hours! I will miss this place SO MUCH and I'm not sure what I'll do without the lovely ladies that I get to share a store with. I have the world's best boss, a great staff, and fun clothes to sell to cheery people. Oh yeah, and we have a sick view. Does it get better than that?

7. I am thankful for all the packing I've been doing. In the words of my smart Daddyo, "Katie, you can't pull an all nighter Saturday and expect to drive all day Sunday." He's a very smart man.

8. I am thankful for Amazon Prime. I've been looking up textbook prices and it's consistently saving me between 9-32% on every book. And giving me free shipping. But like I tweeted, big girl textbooks mean big girl prices. YIKES! (Thanks Dad!)

9. I am thankful to be going back to a school that I love. Bring me Gourmet Shop chicken salad, sweeeeeeet tea, Bojangles, Cocky, Publix, the VC and my UA family, sweltering heat, Williams-Brice, my little pink and green room, Wal Mart, 1704, Eric San Jose, football, Rosewood Drive, and YOUR CAROLINA GAMECOCKS!

10. I am thankful for Little, my car. It got a lot of work done this week that we weren't expecting and in the words of Jessie James "is lookin' fresh and brand new" for our drive back down South. (Dearest Little, sorry you have to get covered in disgusting bugs in North Carolina. I've never really understood that phenomenon, but it happens trip in and trip out.)

xxKatie

Yum-O: Founding Farmers

So, on Thursday night a few friends and I went to Founding Farmers in Foggy Bottom in Washington D.C. for dinner. Let me tell you firsthand it is among some of the best food I've had in my life. At the table, each and every one of us thoroughly enjoyed our meals. (All the included photos are the actual food we ate, I just found all the pictures on Google!)

See that long table passed that first pane of glass? That's RIGHT where we sat!

Founding Farmers has a wonderful story of how/why they were created, if you go your server will let you know but if not check the link! They are a 100% green building LEED certified GOLD! (The only other building I've ever heard of being Gold certified is the USC Honor's Dorm and that's TRICKED OUT with green stuff like water monitors per residence hall room and crazy cool stuff like that!)

To start off we had Bacon Lollis (YUM), Cornbread (decent) and Fried Green Tomatoes (not my thing, but the peeps who ate them said they were delish).

It looks gross...it tastes heavenly. While everyone else had 1 Bacon Lolli, natch I had 2.

Cornbread and honey butter (literally honey and butter together)

I can't seem to find the tomatoes but they looked pretty standard. You get the idea. Some of the ladies were ooh-ing and ahh-ing over the "Green Goddess Dip" though!

For dinner, everyone got something different! It was so much fun to see what everyone got--they were all pretty much different kinds of comfort food:

I got the "Loaded Baked Potato Ravioli" and it was probably the best meal I've ever had in my entire life. The raviolis were filled with yummy bliss potatoes and the pasta dough was freshly made. There was a DELISH cheese sauce that was oozy and hot and perfect on top of potatoes and pasta of course. Scallions and more bacon (like I needed it) topped my dinner! T.D.F. let me tell you.

Another one of the girls ordered chicken and waffles. I tried one of the waffles and it was like the best, lightest, fluffiest funnel cake you've ever eaten. So good!!!

Yet another dinner at the table was Shrimp and Grits with a kick! They were also raved about but I didn't try this dish. It just LOOKED good!

There were 3 more dishes at the table which were combos of fish, pasta and even a Grilled Cheese and Tomato soup platter! Needless to say we all LOVED our dishes and some of us EXTRA lucky ladies got to take some of our dinners home!! All in all, it was a great dining experience and I'd highly recommend Founding Farmers!

Ever been? If yes, what did you get? If no, get your eyes off this screen and go STRAIGHT (do not pass Go) to make a reservation!!

xxKatie

Weekly Gratitue

Already almost a month under my belt here at home. The weeks are flying by--I seriously do not know where my time is going these days!

(Picture, see WG #4)

1. I am thankful for the Naval Academy. It has a special place in my heart and will have one forever. I've had so many sponsor brothers and sisters (my number is in the teens) and I'm lucky to have met all of them. Just the other night my "youngest" (and by youngest I mean newest) brother had a few of his company-mates over and they had a wonderful time. It was great to meet them all!
2. I am thankful for new blog friends. You never know where they pop up and I know I have a few close ones.
3. I am thankful for this hot weather. With hot weather it brings sunshine, pool openings, and lots and lots of barbecues! Is there even a better way to spend the summer?
4. I am thankful I work in a dog friendly store/town. I've learned so much about different kinds of dogs just from letting them walk in!
5. I am thankful for eBay. I've been having way too much fun browsing their selections. I may or may not be online browsing for formal dresses that I don't need but it's still a heck of a lotta fun!
6. I am thankful for weddings. Weddings are giving me the best opportunity to work this summer in a capacity that I never expected!
7. I am thankful for Pinterest! It is the coolest online live thought board. I am beyond obsessed. Still...
8. I am thankful for hot dogs. I eat them for dinner if we're grilling, and sometimes for lunch from Pip's (my favorite place to eat when I work in Annapolis). I have eaten so many recently, there are few foods that say summer like hot dogs!
9. I am thankful for Facebook and Twitter (probably one of only a few people who are actually "thankful for it"...). They are allowing me to stay in contact with lots of my close friends in a more fun way than emails, texting or phone calls!
10. I am thankful for all the new experiences and friends that I'm getting and making this summer. I know I say it, but I really believe that Summer 2011 is set to be the best on the books for me!

xxKatie

Summer Food: Cream Cups

There are a few things that we make that just scream summer. Grilled chicken cooked by my Daddyo, bruschetta pasta salad, crabs, and cream cups. We just made the cups two nights ago sort of on a whim for dessert. Momma had bought all the ingredients and with a little prodding from me, we made them!

There are 2 types you can make: fruity and decorative. The fruity cups have little slices of in-season fruit in them! In the past we've used strawberries and blueberries for the 4th of July (you get the idea). For the kids, or the really picky 20-somethings you can use sprinkles instead of the fruit. We make both kinds because I don't like the fruit ones (nor do I like the ones that even used to have fruit in them....) and I have fun sprinkles here at home. These cups are also NOT scientific. It's a taste-based recipe...for sure.

The way you make them is really easy! You take any store bough sugar cooke dough in a tube and cut it into 36 pieces and roll them into circles. This requires working quickly and I couldn't do it on my own so my mom took the cutting job and I did the rolling. After rolling, spray a mini muffin tin with cooking spray and put the rolled balls in the pans. Follow the regular cookie directions putting the time at LESS THAN the package. Ours called for 13 minutes so I put them in for 10. Once they start to puff up, but before they're done completely, take a fat bottom spoon (or wine stopper like we used) and make the puffy balls into cup shapes by gently pressing the middles down. Some will collapse on their own. Cook them for MAYBE 4 more minutes and then take them out. Let them cool and harden further.

For the filling, it's Cool Whip, cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Basically take the entire pack of cream cheese (this it not healthy...), and add the sugar and Cool Whip to taste. We added about two big squeeze of vanilla (new bottles...squeeze now from McCormick!) and were good to go. Then you combine them until semi smooth. Momma used the blender last time and said it got too runny--you want it to be thick for the next step!

Finally you squeeze the combo into your cooled cups. We used the Wilton Cookie Press with a star tip instead of the cookie disc. Then you put in the cream and they're ready to decorate! YUM!

Any tried and true summer recipes for your family? Any good go-to desserts that you like?

xxKatie

Weekly Gratitude: 500

1. Thanks to my sister for making her prof pic a photo of us and saying get back soon to me. It means a lot gRe. I miss you a ton. You prolly have no idea.

2. Thanks to the boy who helped me with my shag final. I appreciate you putting up with me.

3. Thanks to Colleen for celebrating with me. It was extravagant, but we 150% fully deserved that celebration. I'm so thankful you took this class with me.

4. Thanks to Derek for always keeping an eye out for me in and out of shag class. Since I've known you from my freshman year first semester in college you've always been like an older brother making sure I was always ok. I appreciate everything you've done for me this semester in AND out of class again. You're going to do great things and I look forward to hearing about you in the future and telling all my friends I knew you in college.

5. Thanks to my old roommate for wanting to reconnect. I'm sorry that we fell out of contact and look forward to our very very long dinner/gab session that you can tell me ALL ABOUT your study abroad in ROME! Lucky biscuit!

6. Thanks to Easter for coming late. You reinforced fashion rules. Also thank you to everyone who followed the rules and didn't wear white pants or shoes yet. I wore BOTH on Monday. #winning

7. Thanks to Capstone for having the best cheese grits on campus. You make them stringy and delicious. I miss Miss Andrena like nobody's business.

8. Thanks to everyone who sent me notes saying that they liked my post about writing thank you's. It's a been thankful circle. And I like it.

9. Thanks to my mom for signing me up for college classes over the summer. She rules and I'm lucky to have such a baller mom. Y'all should be jealous.

10. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN AN LBP FAN FROM THE BEGINNING. TODAY IS MY 500TH POST. RAZ, Christine K., Kristen C., Harriet H., Grace R., Mom and Dad, Evalyse L., Katherine R., Caitlin S., Audrey M., Mary-Claire M., and a lot of my friends in high school. I think of y'all all the time when I have writers block thinking what RAZ's Journalism class would have told me to do. I couldn't have done this without any of your support almost 5 years ago! Woo!

xxKatie

Lilly + Lifeguard Press + Food Network

I was browsing the facebook page of Lifeguard Press and found some FAAAABulous snapshots of Sandra Lee's show on the Food Network:

How amazing is that "tablescape"?! I LOVE all the P&G colors and accessories!!! Now THIS is a "tablescape" that I'd try to mimic!!

xxKatie

Her Campus: A Collegiette's Guide to Life

Alright, so I don't ever really trust advice websites. I go to my closest friends when I need help with problems. I don't try to READ about the issues I'm ALREADY having. And when it comes to college advice guides, they're pretty much never ending! Until I found this great advice site all for college girls. It talks about everything from relationship issues, girl issues, budgeting, what and how to eat in college, and I honestly feel like they could be writing to me. They have representatives writing from a bunch of different schools so you get a great perspective from girls from the North, South, Midwest, East Coast, everywhere. I'm SO excited to see the Her Campus edition for USC and it debuts this week on the 15th! Some of my recent favorite posts they've had are:

1. 5 College Trends That Won't Go Away: this talks about the crazed trends that we've all seen (or may still be seeing) on campus. Too bad they forgot the Norts...

2. 10 Easy Ways to Save Money in College: my momma will be happy to see that I read this one!

3. Five Rules of Etiquette That Every Collegiette Needs To Know: I wish I could mass text/facebook inbox/email/tweet this article to most college girls I know. A little bit of polish and being polite goes so far in college.

4. The Craziest College Classes: 2010 Edition: From Star Trek to Nascar, you can find all the craziest sounding classes here!

5. How Technology has Changed the "Game" of Dating: Amen sista.

These articles are well-written by smart Collegiettes! They're real and I know many girls who read this website, if for nothing else, just for fun. Some things you can take seriously and some you can just laugh off. I definitely recommend checking this site out for any of my fellow fabulous college ladies!!

xxKatie

Columbia Restaurant Week--YUM

This is an ad that any past, present or future Gamecock will appreciate. "Chicken Finger Wednesday" is like a weekly holiday on campus. 1400 pounds of chicken fingers are cooked across campus every Wednesday with as many as 200 servings going out every 15 minutes. CFW stats can be found here...yeah, chicken finger wednesday has it's own holiday. Whatever they put in those Wednesday chicken fingers is magic. Cafeterial gold, if you will. People stand in line for these chicken fingers, and this ad agency really knew how to market Restaurant Week to students. It certainly grabbed my attention on our school newspaper, the Daily Gamecock. 

Some of my favorite restaurants are a part of Columbia Restaurant Week and it starts today:

YUM.

The parents are a fan

Who can say no to wings?

This place is quirky and fun!

There are so many great deals to snag during this week, I'm gonna see if I can kidnap a few friends and drag them on over!!

xxKatie

What I'm Thankful For

There is so much to be thankful for in my life. Here's just a small snippet of my list:

1. My little family (EKS this includes you too but you're not in any of our "traditional" fam photos):

2. My big family (with all of our new additions!):

3. The best readers anyone could ever have:

4. Two crazy roommates who put up with me (one of these things is not like the others...):

5. Big wins that make us one of the best schools to EVER ATTEND:

6. Country music that helps me fall asleep:

7. The best place to work in the world (plus sCe, Miss Skyler obvi):

8. BBM so my I can send HUGE texts to my sister telling her about my big-college-girl-problems:

9. Diet coke to get me through Accounting 225 and Philosophy 110...the banes of my existence:

10. And last but certainly not least a little obsession I call LBP.

xxKatie

Trip to the Queen City!

So for the long labor day weekend, my friend Laura invited me back to her home in Charlotte, NC. It was so refreshing to have a trip to a HOME with a family and parents and even a dog (and to everyone who knows me personally, they know how much I don't do dogs!) to play with! We headed up to Charlotte Saturday morning and it was a very easy trip. We listened to my old CDs and I could tell Laura exactly when they were from (Junior year summer, when I liked so-and-so, you get the idea) and it was a lot of fun! When we got there we visited with Laura's family for a little while when I met her sister and mom and then got our nails done at a local salon.

After that we headed back to her house and then went to the EpiCentre which is a big "venue" in the heart of Charlotte. It's "doughnut shaped" as I describe it with an open middle but three stories of restaurants and bars! We ate at an awesome Italian restaurant called Libretto's and we both got DELISH pizzas. There was even a live band that provided us with great entertainment plus we got awesome peoplewatching done too. There were four bachelorette parties that passed by us too!

This was our view of the small band and part of the EpiCentre!

This was the view of a few of the bars/restaurants where we were sitting. Enso seemed like the place to go if you were somebody and I kept thinking that someone like Scott Disick was gonna walk out of there any minute. Two of the bachelorette parties walked in there and were definitely dressed to the nine's! It was on the bottom floor and was rocking quite a vibe.

This was the view as the night rolled around. We asked our waitress if it was alright to just sit around for a little while and she was awesome and happy to have us even though we were finished with dinner and all set. We totally got more of a bar feeling once the night hit and the crowd certainly changed a little. 

Later that night, we stayed in Laura's house, and hung out in her pool and hot tub for awhile and then got ready for bed. Sunday, we hit up a big mall that was actually a mile full circle with a HUGE food court. I spotted some of the MAC in LillyLand makeup at one of the stores:

This eyeshadow palette was only $13.75 at the Company Cosmetic Store (or "the cosmetic outlet" as my sister and I call it)! I thought about getting one, but figured that I don't wear eye makeup enough to wear it (or even any pink/green eyeshadow ever I think) to buy it. I had to snap a photo anyway though!

I had such a fun weekend with Laura and her family! It was a great break away from campus and just far enough away to enjoy ourselves and "unplug" from everything here! I'm feeling refreshed and ready for the next week and our UGA game Saturday!!

xxKatie

Smoothies...Yum!

One of my favorite things about being home is a place for smoothies called Robeks! They have the best smoothies I've ever had and all the flavors are good. They're pretty healthy too and all my friends and I seem to have our personal favorites. Mine is called Polar Pineapple and is actually pink! It has papaya juice, strawberries, pineapples, pineapple sherbet, and ice and I highly recommend it.

Now I love these smoothies, but does anyone have good recipes to try? I'd love to try to make a few on my own to see how they come out, but I need some tried-and-true good ones (preferably without bananas...or just not taste the flavor. I'm not a banana fan at all!) that are delish? Please let me know if you do!! Thanks and I'd love to try yours out!!

xxKatie

Happy Mother's Day!

To all the Mommas out there, Happy Mother's day! To all the kids out there, go tell your Mommas thanks and that you love 'em!

We had a delightful Mother's Day in our house, and we celebrated all day! First we went to a (super duper) early 8:30 mass and then went to a little local breakfast dive that I had never been to. It was very cute and very close to our house. We got home and then my mom opened her gifts. Here are the two we picked out:

This is the Iris Skort. It is super cute in person, except the piping along the sides is yellow. Very cute and our momma loved it!

We also got her a Murfee! It is her first one and she loved it! When we were in the store about a week ago she pointed out that she like this print, and without even knowing, two weeks before my sister had mentioned the EXACT same one! Great minds think alike, huh?

For dinner, yours truly cooked (for the first time...a real meal! Not baking and not Easy Mac or Cup O' Noodles!!) shrimp scampi! I found the recipe on foodgawker (shocker, I know!) but it had been adapted from Ina Garten, my favorite FoodNetwork chef. Here is the website I used! I didn't eat it but the shrimp people in my family assured me it was good. I got a few tips about making it next time, but my cooking confidence went up a few points for sure!! As I look at the photo now, I'm realizing I forgot the parsley...oops! Oh well, lessons learned, right?

Happy Mother's Day to all my fabulous blogging Mommas out there!!

xxKatie

Food Obsession!

So, let's address the fact that I haven't blogged in a week. Yikes! Sorry everyone! I've been so busy with finals and packing up my room and getting home that Le Blog has been on the back burner. I've finally un-packed everything and tried to start living life at home normally. Since I've been home though, I've been looking at a website called foodgawker.com! If any of you are food blog lovers, be sure to check this website out! I believe it compiles all the hits on different website. That means, all the most popular recipes (aka the yummiest) are organized in a massive list. I have separate files on my Bookmarks Bar for all the different food categories of recipes that I've saved: Breakfast Food (think Nutella Poptarts...), Lunch/Dinner Food (mmhmm Garlic Noodles), Dessert Food (ohh how many I have saved under here), and Snack Food (so many types of pizza snacks!!).

I am so excited to make some of these recipes! Plus, I have to learn how to cook since I'm living in an off-campus apartment next year! Here are a select few I want to try:

Nutella Poptarts

Southern Cookbook: Peanut Butter Cookies

Pink Lemonade Cupcakes

Ranch Pretzels by Miss Monogram--I follow her!!

Potato Gnocchi Tater Tots

Homemade Mac and Cheese

Garlic Noodles

Spaghetti Pie

Among working at the store, now I have my cooking project for the summer! If any of these come out especially delish I'll let you know for sure!!

What are some of your favorite foods?

What are your favorite recipes? Anything you'd like to pass on that I can add to my virtual recipe box?!

xxKatie

Hoppy Easter!! (This is a silly one...)

"What happens when a chocolate bunny becomes friends with two peeps?"

Easter s'mores anyone? (Check out that link for the cheeky description!!) Take a chocolate bunny and two peeps and you're good to go! I thought this was too funny so I had to share it with everyone! I found it on foodgawker--quite possibly the most fun website ever. They list the most "hit" or most blogged about food during a given period of time. I have an entire folder titled "FOOD" on my bookmarks bar in my internet all from FG. 

Hope everyone is having a beautiful Easter, spring has truly sprung!

xxKatie

A Post for Me

Hi all! I'm sitting here watching the clock and counting the seconds to spring break! It is just about the only thing on my mind these days and I can't wait! I saw this post on another blog "In the Pink", so I thought I'd copy it and do it myself. I think these little introspective posts are fun sometimes, so definitely post it yourself!!

If I was a month, I would be late May or June. 

If I was a day of the week, I would be Friday.

If I was a time of day, I would be dinner time.

If I was a planet, I would be Momma Earth.

If I was a sea animal, I would be a giraffe!

If I was a direction, I would be East like the water.

If I was a piece of furniture, I would be a bean bag chair (90's throwback style).

If I was a liquid, I would be Cherry 7-Up.

If I was a gemstone, I would be a pearl.

If I was a tree, I would be a Magnolia Tree. 

If I was a tool, I would go on Tool Academy (haha...).

If I was a flower, I would be a Gerber Daisy.

If I was a kind of weather, I would be an Annapolis summer day minus the humidity.

If I was a musical instrument, I would be a electric guitar.

If I was a color, I would be PINK!

If I was an emotion, I would be happiness.

If I was a fruit, I would be an apple.

If I was a sound, I would be steel drums.

If I was an element, I would be Krypton (Kr).

If I was a car, I would be a navy blue Honda Civic (I miss you Little Car).

If I was a food, I would be a sugar cookie.

If I was a place, I would be home.

If I was a material, I would be printed cotton.

If I was a taste, I would be cupcake.

If I was a scent, I would be Lilly Pulitzer Beachy.

If I was an object, I would be a shell.

If I was a body part, I would be a heart.

If I was a facial expression, I would be a big goofy open mouth laugh.

If I was a song, I would be "On the Street Where You Live" by Willie Nelson--that's my new favorite, from the Valentine's Day soundtrack.

If I was a pair of shoes, I would be platinum Jacks--my signature!!

Now it's your turn!! Try one out for yourself! I had a lot of fun with this one!!

Here's the fam last spring break! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU GUYS!

xxKatie

Clemson Game Menu

Hey everyone! Since I'm not the Thanksgiving maker (heck, I'll probably be in charge of desserts! ) I'm going to post all the things I'd like to make for Saturday. I'm gonna change it up and post the goodies that I'll be making for T-Giving tomorrow or so. My mom makes a DEEEEE-lish Turkey soup that I actually like more than the traditional T-Giving dinner, but that's ok. Saturday I was to make a big gameday menu so this is what I'm thinking:

1. Pigs in a Blanket

P's in B's are one of my all time FAVES! I absolutely love them and literally can eat about 20 at a time, I kid you not. My extended family even has served them at wedding receptions since we all like them so much. I love mine dunked in ketchup! I make them with regular refrigerated Cresent Roll dough and the "Lil' Franks" that Hillshire farms makes. I've tried making them with Boar's Head mini franks, but they're gross and don't make a good "roll" with the Cresent Roll dough.

2. Onion Dip and Spicy Nacho Doritos

It may sound gross, but I think its great! This is is a "recipe" that I stole from my aunt Megan. She serves hers with regular nacho Doritos, but I love the spicy nacho ones personally, so this is always a staple at parties. Just give it a try, I promise it's good!

3. M&M Pretzels I found a website called foodgawker.com and it has the most blogged about/most commented on/overall best online recipes and good ideas for cooking. This recipe I think looks so delish and so easy to make! I'll either make this OR a Chex Mix recipe called Muddy Buddies. That will be my sweet tooth fix!

4. Pizza Bites I mean they're even called party food on the website! I can't believe it! These are like those Totino's Pizza Rolls (which I happen to LOVE) but homemade. It doesn't get much better than pulling them apart? Am I right? Yet another recipe from foodgawker. Seriously one night, I just spent awhile adding them to a "FOOD" bookmark tab on my Safari!

5. Fried Mozzarella Balls I think this will be a little difficult, but so yummy! I've never really fried anything, so I'm not sure if I'll do this or just grab the ones from Friday's in the frozen food section. Again, I got this from foodgawker too. If you have time, check it out. There are literally 100's of chocolate chip cookie recipes as well as tons of homemade Chinese food recipes!

I'm sure this will end up being tougher than I imagine, but there are 2 fun games on that day. Carolina/Clemson and Navy/Hawaii! I can't wait to see how my teams do! What are you guys making for the Thanksgiving games? I'll do another post about my Thanksgiving desserts (Mom, I'm taking over dessert, FYI! Haha!)

What are your Gameday staples? Any snack that's specific to your family or has a cute tradition?

xxKatie