Birthday Boys!

June is a month full of birthday's in the Meeks and Haden families. June 6th was Mr. Meeks (Nic's dad) 56th birthday so we had all of his family over for dinner. Last year we did more of a seated/formal dinner but since we've finished the patio we wanted to incorporate every inch of it, so... this year was backyard BBQ style!

Nic woke up at 5am the Saturday morning of the party to put ribs and a pork shoulder (?) on the smoker. We had a huge spread of your typical backyard BBQ style foods. Nic doesn't like anything out of a can or bag so he had to make his version/homemade EVERYTHING from the BBQ sauce to the baked beans. We had pulled pork, ribs, coleslaw, baked beans (kidney beans and all kinds of random kinds-DELISH), hash brown casserole and grilled corn. Desert consisted of homemade ice-cream (I haven't had this in YEARS) and a German Chocolate cake. Needless to say-everyone left SUPER full. Nothing about this meal was healthy except that he used splenda in the ice-cream instead of real sugar! ha.

 

Can't entertain without my wonderful Chef Nic!

 

McKenzie & Logan

 

 

 

 

 My sister in law LOVES to clean..She gets invited to everything=)

 The Birthday Boy

Nic loves history and collects all kinds of books on WWII,  military stuff, aircrafts, etc-EVERY TIME our nephew Tyler comes over-he has to pull ALL of these books off the shelves and look at every single picture. For a 7 year old, this child knows so much about the civil war, military losses, famous generals, etc. He is a very intelligent child-going to be just like his uncle, Nic Nic! (hope our kids get his brains too!!)

BIRTHDAY # 2

This past weekend was my dads 54th birthday, my grandmothers 83rd birthday and of course, Fathers Day so we invited my family over to celebrate! Nic prepared fried tomato sandwiches and crispy zucchini/potato skillet cakes (like crab cakes) for appetizers and steak and chicken kabobs, hash brown casserole and a wonderful spinach strawberry pecan salad for the main course. Desert consisted of  strawberry cake and homemade vanilla ice cream. I helped make the ice cream & cake=)

 

Steak kabobs with fresh grown vegetables

I love fresh pineapple!

   

Chicken Kabobs

 My contribution was the baking-something I LOVE to do! (really I just love using the mixer and licking the bowl!)

                                         Preparing the zucchini/potato cakes

 

Fried tomato sandwiches (these aren't fried and they aren't sandwiches- don't really know where that name came from) 

 zucchini/potato cakes-WONDERFUL!!

  

  

Beer napkins for my dad=)

 

Fresh flowers for a birthday party,a must!

 

                                      Carb-loaded hash brown casserole-Very tasty!

                                       Spinach strawberry pecan salad

 

My grandparents! I love that there is a beer in front of my grandmother-she is B-A-P-T-I-S-T, not a fan of alcohol =)

 

I guess since she wouldn't let them have beer growing up-they just love it now=)

                                                                    Debbie & Ken

 

Mom & Heidi

Happy Happy Birthday!

 

Happy Fathers Day!

 

My sister ALWAYS finds the funniest cards-not always the most appropriate though!

 My sister always gives my dad old records and realized that his record player broke so she surprised him with a brand new one!

My grandmother got a beautiful bird house and jewelry (she's very hard to buy for) and dad got clothes and more records! 

Another card from Heidi!