Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #13

November 10, 2011
Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, Amy, and The Hartle Family: Becky, Matt, Kailey, Lila, Curtis, and Jake, and the late arriver: Granny

Menu: Fresh Garlic Bread, Easy Lasagna Toss, Salad, and wine and tea.

The Hartles live in our neighborhood. Kailey and Mary are in the same homeroom and Daisy troop. Becky is the homeroom mom and troop leader.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #12

October 27, 2011

Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, and Amy

Menu: Leftover spaghetti

We've been so busy lately we haven't had one and the house was a mess, so we decided to just have one with just our family. When we sat down for dinner Mary asked "Where are our guests?"

Spaghetti Thursday #11

September 29, 2011

Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, and Amy, Granny, Mike, Shawna, and Brady, and Ronnie, Cathy, Braedan, and Jackson Smith*

Menu: Rotini with meat sauce, garlic bread, dipping bread, salad.

*Cathy is also a 4th grade teacher at my campus. Ronnie is an AP at Rylander Elem and I also play on his co-ed softball team. I think this is the largest attendance of Spaghetti Thursday. All the kids had fun playing together!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #10

Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, Amy, Shelley and Savannah Fries*

Menu: Lasagna toss, cheesy bread sticks, cabernet sauvignon, creme filled chocolate cupcakes

*Shelley is a 4th grade teacher on my team at Kilpatrick and Savannah is her daughter that is in Mary's first grade class. The girls had a blast playing together. I'm so lucky to be as such a great campus with Mary. We are both making friends! :)



Monday, September 19, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #9

September 15, 2011

Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, Amy, Shawna, and Brady

Menu: Rotini with spaghetti sauce with sausage, garlic bread, Papa John's pizza*, and cinnapie (also from Papa Johns)

Thursday was also Papa John's School Night. Papa John's then donates a portion of their sales to our school.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #8

Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, Amy, Paige, Granny, The Sowa's: Billy, Lori, Saige, and Conner

Menu: Rotini and sauce with sausage and pepperoni, sauted sqaush and zuccini, fresh green beans, and garlic bread, tea, and wine. For dessert The Sowa's brought cupcakes from Crazed. They were absolutely DELICIOUS!!!!!

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #7

August 25, 2011

Attendance: William, Mary, Amy, Vincent, Maria

Menu: Spaghetti noodles, sauce with sausage and pepperoni, and garlic bread*

I had parent orientation at school, so I started everything and then had to leave. Mandy had plans to meet up with friends for dinner that night.

*William didn't know or forgot that the bread was in the oven and burnt it.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #6

Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, Amy, Grandma, Granny, Jill, Jackson, and Kathryn

Menu: Mini bowties, spaghetti sauce with sausage, dipping bread, salad, garlic bread, and snickerdoodles.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #5

July 14, 2011
Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, Amy, Paige, Aunt Cynthia, Adam #2, and Baby Luke
Menu: Dippping bread, Spaghetti with homemade meatballs, salad, garlic bread, tea, raspberry lemonade, margaritas, and angel food cake with cool whip, strawberries and blueberries.
This was Luke's first time to our house. He was so good!! Such a sweet little boy.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #4

Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, Amy, Granny, and Paige
Menu: Spaghetti noodles, traditional sauce with sausage, garlic bread, tea, Paige's homemade chocolate cake* with blue bell homemade vanilla ice cream
*We were her giunea pigs and it was delicious! Amy said it was beautiful!
Then Amy went with Granny for a sleepover!!!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #3

June 30, 2011
Menu: chicken in sauce* with penne pasta and garlic bread.
Attending: William, Laurie, Mary, Amy, Shawna, and Brady.
*Shawna shared a new recipe and it was a hit. Cut boneless skinless chicken breast into bite size pieces. Marinate in italian dressing. Sauté. Once cooked put in alfredo sauce and marinara sauce. Simmer until ready to eat.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #2

Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, Amy, Grandma Betty, Steven, Adrienne, and the triplets: Addison, Bryce, and Collin
Menu: dipping bread, Mini Farfalle (aka bowtie or aka to Mary as frog feet), sausage and pepperoni sauce, salad, garlic bread, sauted squash and zuccini, vanilla french twists and two bite brownies, margaritas, and beer. Tea was available, but untouched. Adrienne also brought a wonderful cold salad, but we forgot about it in the fridge! So William got a serving of it before they left for lunch tomorrow.
Afterwards we all went swimming at our neighborhood pool. The kids had a blast!

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Spaghetti Thursday #1

Thursday, June 16
Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, Amy, Granny, Paige, Jill, Jackson, Kathryn
Menu: Dipping bread, Salad, spaghetti noodles, sausage and pepperoni sauce, garlic bread, raspberry lemonade, ice tea, strawberry daquiris*, margaritas*, peanut butter and hot fudge cheesecake
*Made with our new Margaritaville machine, the same machine Mary got 6 stiches from the blender blade.**
**Paige's joke: After finding out on Tuesday it makes bloody Mary's, we made daquiris and margaritas on Thursday!

Spaghetti Thursday #0

Thurday, June 9
This was a pre-run.
Attendance: William, Laurie, Mary, Amy, Shawna, Brady, Granny, Paige
Menu: Salad, spaghetti noodles, sausage sauce, garlic bread*, ice tea, ice cream sundaes
*Laurie bought the bread early and it was moldy!

Spaghetti Thursday Beginings

Shortly after we decided to move back to the Houston area, William decided that we would host a dinner every Thursday night. Our menu will basicly be the same each week...spaghetti! We are creating this blog as a journal of each week. Enjoy!!!