A few months ago I signed up at House Party. A House Party™ is thousands of parties across the country, hosted by people like you. Each event is sponsored by a leading brand and focuses on something cool that the sponsor wants its best fans to experience firsthand and share with their friends. (from their website)
I put in an application for a Zatarain's Mardi Gras party, telling House Party all about my fabulous neighbors and all the fun get-togethers we have every year- the block party each May, our adult poker party, our chili cookoffs..... we have the absolute best neighbors and I can't imagine living anywhere else.
And yay, we got chosen! We got a really cool party package with Zatarain's mixes, coupons for more Zatatrain's products, Mardi Gras items like beads and masks, recipe ideas.
Mr. Sasha got to work cookin' up some crawfish.
One of the items we had for our main course was Blackened Chicken Alfredo.... it was so good! I purchased a family-size package of this frozen dinner at Sam's.
The Wild Child had made a mask at school that day and was so excited for everyone to come over and for the party to get started. We whipped up some Pat O's Hurricanes (how is it that I don't have a picture of that???) and also made Zatarain's Dirty Rice, Red Beans and Rice and Jambalaya. All the dishes were super easy to make- I just wished I had more burners! We ended up transferring things to crock pots to keep them warm and that worked great.
Zatarain's even had a Pandora Mardi Gras station for us to use for party music! I pulled it up on my iPad and it was great.
We planned on having the party outside, but of course the weather didn't cooperate! We ended up cleaning out our garage and putting our outside table and chairs in there so we would be out of the wind.
I think The Wild Child needs a few more beads, don't you?
Looks like Bella had a little bit too good of a time, huh?
We had a fabulous time! Thanks to House Party and Zatarain's for including us in your event!
2 comments:
That sounds like a blast! How fun!
Okay, I'm jealous. We live in the same city, but I am in northern midtown and have NO neighbors to hang out with - especially ones with kids. I used to have my BFF's close, but they have moved to the burbs or gotten married. We are looking for a new house, but I'm not sure when that will happen. Luckily, I have a lot of sisters and I tend to put on quite a fete, so it's not hard to get them over here!
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