Cleveland Trip, Funfetti Dip, Cold Ones.

This past Friday night we had my parents and my stepbrother's daughter, Mary Kate, over for a cookout for an early Fathers day celebration! Blogger fail though on my part because I didn't even get any pictures with my Dad...shame on me. Billy and I put a gift basket (the basket was a 6 pack of his favorite beer...) together for my Dad with a gift card, his favorite candy, and other various small things in it that he would use often. 
Dad's are seriously impossible to shop for! Anyone else feel this way? 

and this picture right here is exactly what I've been doing almost every Friday when I walk through the door after work...

sit on the deck with a cold one and kick my feet up!

{top: Tobi, jeans: F21, necklace: J. Crew Replica necklace, Ebay shoes: Jack Rogers (love!)}

We all enjoyed dinner and some drinks together on the deck and had a great time just spending time with them at our house. After they left, we headed to Cleveland to spend the weekend with Billy's family.

On Saturday, Billy, his brother, and his cousins all went golfing for his cousin Doug's birthday, so I thought this was a perfect time to catch up with my friend Jessica who lives close by and spend the day at the pool with her. The boys golf, the girls lay out... fine by me. 

Later on when the boys were finished golfing, we headed over to Billy's cousin Doug and his girlfriend Cara's beautiful house for....you guessed it, more eating and drinking. This is a common theme when hanging out with us. As Billy would say, "Katie does not skip a meal". The man speaks the truth, what can I say? Anyways, It was so nice because all of Billy's cousins were there and some of his best friends that we haven't seen in a while. 

An extremely handsome group..if I do say so myself.

Oh, I made a killer dip that you need to know about.

....you probably already do, but if not, write this recipe down and make it STAT.

Funfetti Cake Dip

recipe: found here!

Only 3 ingredients and tastes just like cake batter.

What's not to like about that?
(I think this is more of a dessert dip, so serve with animal crackers or even vanilla wafers!)

Since Sunday was Fathers Day, Billy hung out with just his Dad some and then our uncle Joe had the whole family over to hang out and celebrate his daughter Megan's recent high school graduation. We headed back to Columbus later that evening and exhausted didn't even begin to describe how we were feeling, but we had a great weekend. 

And of course, Rocky gave his daddy some extra kisses...

melts my heart.

...and before I stop with my ramblings for the day, I wanted to do a quick review on Orgain nutrional drinks for Tasty Tuesday.

 Orgain is the first organic ready-to-drink nutritional shake that contains the equivalent of 10 servings of fruits and vegetables. The people at Orgain were nice enough to send me 8 nutritional drinks in chocolate and vanilla bean flavor, and I love them both. I've been drinking them in the morning for breakfast and it tides me over until lunchtime. Not to mention they don't taste bad at all...actually, they taste pretty good. 

 Each drink has 16g of protein so it would be great to drink after a tough workout as well. 

 Have any of you heard of Orgain?

Find them at Whole Foods, or other similar stores, and give them a try!

They also have an Iced Cafe Mocha flavor that I'm hoping to try soon.

You know how I am with iced beverages. :)




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Toodles!