Jalapeno Poppers

I had never heard of jalapeno poppers until John saw a recipe for it in my favorite cookbook and wanted to make it. As we were making them John says, "Chels, I don't think you are going to like these...there is almost nothing in here that you really like other than the bacon." But to my surprise they were pretty good. We shared them with our friends Katy and David and they loved them along with John. Definitely a success we will have to repeat at sometime!

HOW TO PREPARE

1. Cut jalapeno's in half, cut of membrane and seeds

2. Mix Cream Cheese, shredded cheese, sliced green onions and fill jalapeno

3. Wrap it in bacon, stick a toothpick through it and then cover it in bbq sauce.

4. Bake in the oven at 275 for 30 or 40 minutes or until the bacon is sizzling!

5. Then Enjoy!

Mud Speedball

We learned to play Speedball from our friend Brice. Don't worry he is drinking creme soda!We played with Mike, John Doxey, Megan, and Dan. The sun was out and then all of a sudden it started raining so of course we resulted to diving sliding and getting all muddy.The best slide definitely went to Dan who scored by sliding into the basket with the ball in hand and ended up wearing the basket in pieces on his shoulder.
He only had a few scratches but because of the rain and wet grass the blood was all over his arm which made it look pretty robust and very manly.

Second best dive goes to Mike who dove for know reason during the game just for his own satisfaction.

Refinished My Kitchen Table

I can't believe I actual took this task on all by myself! Well actually I can't take all the credit myself cause my grandpa helped me out a ton. I forgot to take a picture of the table before I started but the chair is the same color as the table was originally.

I first sanded the whole top of the table top which took forever and the lightly sanded around the edges of the table and the legs.

I put two coats of this on. First using a paint brush and second using my grandpa's sprayer.
Then I put three coats of this on with a foam brush. In between each coat I sanded it with 220 sandpaper to smooth it. Unfortunately I should have used an oil based, not a water based finish because the paint was oil based so now we have to wait like over a week for our table to cure. So don't make the same mistake.

Anyways it took a long time and I tried to surprise John and do it while he was in California but he looked at our bank account and saw the charges to Home Depot and guessed that that it was I was doing. So he cheated and blew his own surprise.

But here it is! It definitely isn't perfect but I think it turned out great especially for my first time refinishing something.

These pictures make it look a little more red than the table actually is.