Hutch in da House!

I apologize in advance, but I have no pictures of this visit. I didn't even think about taking pictures until now! 

Hutch flew in last Friday evening. Since we were having a party the next day, I was in the kitchen prepping food until late that night. Josh and Chris were both good sports and kept me company.

Saturday, we had some friends over to watch our homecoming game with us. I made jalapeno popper dip, a delicious cheesy dip, twice baked potatoes, BBQ sliders (real BBQ!), Old Bay hot wings, and Arnold Palmer jello shots. The food turned out good and we had a great time hanging out, but we lost the game horribly. 

After the party, we went to a friend's house for his birthday party. We had a great time hanging out with Dave for his birthday! 

Sunday, we lounged around the house and watched football for most of the day. 

Monday We went to The Winery at Olney. It was a new place that had just opened a little over a month ago. Their wines were pretty good, but they all were very young, so we're hoping they get better with time. They did have an amazing Peach Chardonnay though! YUM! 

Tuesday, Josh and I got up really early to go vote. We ended up staying up once we got home, so we just watched TV and hung out until Hutch got up. Josh was supposed to have Halo 4 delivered on Tuesday, but there was a delay in shipment. We went to Annapolis to eat an amazing lunch then we went bowling. I was horrible, but we still had fun. They had a 4 person air hockey table at the bowling alley! I LOVE air hockey! There were only 3 of us, so we didn't play. After bowling, we went to Target to pick up the game. Josh and Chris played Halo while I relaxed and read for a bit, then we all watched some of the election coverage together. 

Wednesday, we went to the new casino that is near our house. We just gave ourselves $20 each to spend. I ended up only spending $10 of mine. Josh did the same and he came out positive, again! He made enough to make up for what I lost :-). After playing in the casino for a bit, we went to the buffet. It is pretty pricey, but we had a buy one get one free coupon. We just split the total 3 ways to make it fair. The food was AMAZING! We have another BOGO coupon, so Josh and I will definitely be going back soon! We walked around the mall that is right next to the casino for a while. It's a HUGE mall, so we were in there a lot longer than I realized. 

Thursday, we went to the aquarium. I LOVE our aquarium! Unfortunately, one of my favorite exhibits is closed until the Summer, so Chris wasn't able to see everything. We will definitely have to take him back once everything is open. We did get to check out a dolphin presentation while we were there, which was very cool! After the aquarium, we went back home. We were having a couple friends over to watch some college football and hang out. I brought out a little buffet (as Josh calls it) again with some BBQ sliders, sausage balls and other assorted dips and snacks. We had a good time just hanging out.

Friday, we visited 2 more wineries. We went to Black Ankle and Linganore Winecellars. We had been to Black Ankle in the past and we really enjoyed their wines, so we wanted to take Chris. Linganore was new to all of us. They had lots of really good wines, and the tour itself was the best winery tour I've ever had. They guy who did our tasting was also our tour guide. He was really nice and the tour was very informative. After the tour, we went out for crab cakes. YUM! After a very delicious crab cake dinner, we came back home to watch the second half of our basketball game. It was a really good game! Hopefully the rest of the season will be that way. GO PACK!

Saturday was another game day. I love snacking on food while we watch football, so I always try to make something for us to eat. Saturday I made steak and cheese quesadillas and crab dip. I had to make some major adjustments to the crab dip recipes, but it ended up being really good. We played a LOT better against Wake than we did UVA. We got a much needed W! 

Hutch flew out early Sunday afternoon. We both had a really great time with Chris. We had lots of fun and luckily, we got to do quite a bit of relaxing too! Sorry for the lack of pictures!