The Godfrey's Adventure: Baby Boy or Baby Girl?

Two of my very best friends are having a baby in November.  Yesterday, at their 20 week doctors appointment, Brad and Kaitlin Godfrey found out if they were having a girl or a boy.  The new thing is to let friends and family learn the gender of the child by having a Gender Reveal Party.

This is a precious idea and I couldn't wait to help out.  This is what we did:

Brad's parents hosted the party at their lovely home.  The party was complete with pulled pork sandwiches, Terry's home made baked beans, potato salad and CUPCAKES!  Here's the things about the cupcakes - Brad and Kaitlin went to Gigi's Cupcakes in Flowood after their doctor's appointment and had them make cute gender-neutral cupcakes filled with either blue or pink icing.  Mind you, no one knew the gender of the child expect Brad and Kaitlin.

The anticipation was high!  I also brought some food.  I was in charge of the appetizers.  To go along with the whole pregnancy theme, I did a table called, "Kaitlin's Cravings."  Her cravings are:  pizza, hummus and watermelon.  The table also had punch accompanied by pink or blue stirs for the guests to use based on their gender guess.

To add to the anticipation, all of the guests were ask to vote if they thought boy or girl and give a name suggestion.

After the ballots were cast, the final tally was 15-boy, 10-girl.  Were they right?  The answer was in the cupcake...

It is a boy!  Congratulations Brad and Kaitlin!

The Mystery of the Blue Margarita

Have you ever been to a Mexican restaurant and the margarita list looks something like this:  Lime, Strawberry, Mango and Blue?  If you haven't, trust me, you will notice now!  Well, what the heck is blue?  I have always wondered about the exact flavor of the infamous blue margarita.  Is it blue raspberry?  Bubblegum?  The mystery got the best of me.

This past weekend, I am happy to announce, I gathered up enough guts to order the margarita.  And...

 The flavor?  Literally Blue!  It was nasty.  It had not taste at all.  If I were to explain the flavor, I would say bubble gum.  I do not suggest trying it.  As with a lot of things, the suspense was better than the reveal.

Adventure to the Gulf Coast

On Tuesday, Scott hosted an event at the Beau Rivage for his work.  The Beau Rivage is a resort/casino on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  I honestly had never been to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and I was born and raised in Mississippi.  Usually, when Scott has work events I don't go because it is during the school year.  I was so excited.  So we had a mini-one-day-vacation.

We left earlier than need to in order to stop by the legendary restaurant, The Shed.  I am a huge Food Network/ Cooking Channel fan and the owners of The Shed were on a reality cooking show called, Best in Smoke.  Of course, I was hooked and pulled for them along the way.  The Shed is just one of those restaurants you must stop by when you go somewhere and I had known of it, but of course, never had it.  Needless to say, I was excited to go!

Scott got the pulled pork sandwich and I got the chicken plate.  Here is what I got.  Bad picture but great food!  Oh man... it was good!

Once finished eating EVERYTHING on our plates, Scott and I made our way to the Beau Rivage.  I was pretty excited about it because it is just one of those places you need to experience in Mississippi.  When we walked in I immediately was hit with the smell of an ice cream parlor and a coffee shop!  Oh my!  Ice cream and coffee are my two favorite things in the world.  Give me those and I am a happy camper.  And to make the ice cream on this hot day even harder to resist; it was gelato.  This is it.  Yum.

We attended the parties thrown by Scott's company but the highlight of the trip was not the food, believe it or not.  It was B. B.  King.  I got to see B. B. King!  I was thrilled.  He has always been one of those people that I just love!  I do not get star-struck at all, but I have to say, I was quite star-struck to see him and be so close!

Pina Colada Cake

All I can say is YUM and I don't even like coconut!  You must try this.  Enough said!

Cake:
1 box of Angel Food Cake
1 1/4 cups of Pineapple Juice

*Pour into angel food cake pan and bake according to the directions on the package.

Icing:
1 carton of Fat Free whipped topping - thawed
1 carton coconut cream pudding mix

*Gently fold pudding into whipped topping.  Refrigerate a minimum of 30 minutes.  Once cake has cooled completely, top with icing.

Done!  So easy and so good!!!!