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Girls' Popcorn Night.
Jan. 29th, 2011 11:54 pmOh, last night was so wonderful! I can't believe so many turned out (10 ladies!), but I just had the best time with all my girlies. :-)
The eleven of us made a ruckus upstairs while the boys tore it up with their friend Payton downstairs. Tanya was on-top-of-things and thought to bring her blender over, too - it was much-needed and well-appreciated! Once everyone arrived, the two of us set to work making milkshakes for a crowd. We made vanilla, chocolate, "light" chocolate, and "Elvis" milkshakes between our two blenders. We used about six quarts of ice cream!
Since this was a "Girls' Popcorn Night," I had planned snacks accordingly. I made two large batches of caramel popcorn yesterday. I served one plain, but I drizzled the second batch with both dark and white chocolates. I made a batch of "Poppy Chow," substituting popcorn for the Chex cereal (the chocolate-peanut butter-powdered sugar mix), and I also served cheddar cheese popcorn (from this year's Boy Scout buy). We were all snacking so much I forgot to pop the regular buttered popcorn, even!
My friend Amber brought an amazing spinach-and-bacon dip, as well as homemade green salsa and chips. Jennie brought over some fabulous rice krispie treats, too. And two nights before, Tanya had helped me to make some popcorn-themed cake pops. We used my leftover crumbled Swiss chocolate cake and candy bar cream cheese frosting to combine them, and then we shaped them into tiny "buckets." I dipped them in in red candy melts, then painted white candy melt stripes on, and then topped them with a bunch of marshmallow popcorn that we made together as well.
They were very tasty, but they weren't so pretty, and we decided against a photoshoot! ;-)
Rebecca and Felecia ended up having to leave before we even got the movie queued up, but I was glad they both made it out for at least a couple hours. We watched Love & Other Drugs, and it was very, very good. It had a lot of really funny moments (I hadn't been expecting that), and of course, a lot of really great "eye candy" moments (I had definitely been expecting that!). We all enjoyed it a lot! Lynn, Victoria, Valeen had to leave at the halfway point (about midnight or so), and then Serina ended up leaving about thirty minutes later (her 5-month-old baby boy was beginning to get fussy, and she wanted to get him to bed). After the movie, Tanya had to split to wake early this morning for work, but Jan, Jennie, and Amber stayed and chatted for a while longer. They left close to 2am, and then I cleaned things up afterward. I was finally done at almost 2:30am!
It was so fun, and I'm so glad my friends ventured out in the cold/wind to come. I sure hope to plan another fun night in the future!
The eleven of us made a ruckus upstairs while the boys tore it up with their friend Payton downstairs. Tanya was on-top-of-things and thought to bring her blender over, too - it was much-needed and well-appreciated! Once everyone arrived, the two of us set to work making milkshakes for a crowd. We made vanilla, chocolate, "light" chocolate, and "Elvis" milkshakes between our two blenders. We used about six quarts of ice cream!
Since this was a "Girls' Popcorn Night," I had planned snacks accordingly. I made two large batches of caramel popcorn yesterday. I served one plain, but I drizzled the second batch with both dark and white chocolates. I made a batch of "Poppy Chow," substituting popcorn for the Chex cereal (the chocolate-peanut butter-powdered sugar mix), and I also served cheddar cheese popcorn (from this year's Boy Scout buy). We were all snacking so much I forgot to pop the regular buttered popcorn, even!
My friend Amber brought an amazing spinach-and-bacon dip, as well as homemade green salsa and chips. Jennie brought over some fabulous rice krispie treats, too. And two nights before, Tanya had helped me to make some popcorn-themed cake pops. We used my leftover crumbled Swiss chocolate cake and candy bar cream cheese frosting to combine them, and then we shaped them into tiny "buckets." I dipped them in in red candy melts, then painted white candy melt stripes on, and then topped them with a bunch of marshmallow popcorn that we made together as well.
They were very tasty, but they weren't so pretty, and we decided against a photoshoot! ;-)
Rebecca and Felecia ended up having to leave before we even got the movie queued up, but I was glad they both made it out for at least a couple hours. We watched Love & Other Drugs, and it was very, very good. It had a lot of really funny moments (I hadn't been expecting that), and of course, a lot of really great "eye candy" moments (I had definitely been expecting that!). We all enjoyed it a lot! Lynn, Victoria, Valeen had to leave at the halfway point (about midnight or so), and then Serina ended up leaving about thirty minutes later (her 5-month-old baby boy was beginning to get fussy, and she wanted to get him to bed). After the movie, Tanya had to split to wake early this morning for work, but Jan, Jennie, and Amber stayed and chatted for a while longer. They left close to 2am, and then I cleaned things up afterward. I was finally done at almost 2:30am!
It was so fun, and I'm so glad my friends ventured out in the cold/wind to come. I sure hope to plan another fun night in the future!
