Verizon Crowdtap VIP – Photo Challenge "What's Your Favorite Thing To Share?"

Another Crowdtap photo challenge share!! (Have I mentioned you really SHOULD join Crowdtap?? see link below!) Here are the instructions for this photo share: Take a photo of your favorite thing to share Upload it to Crowdtap and caption it with a description and why it's your favorite thing to share I chose a picture of my house (here it is, and I even had it decorated for the 4th, and, TRUST ME, this is decorating for me, hahaha!):

So I'm obviously not just leaving the front door open for any random person to come in and "share" my house, but I DO enjoy having parties (especially Crowdtap McCormick GrillMates parties!), family gatherings (in '11 my house was the last stop on Thanksgiving Day, and we had a sundae bar...banana splits, cherries, wet walnuts, chocolate syrup-Hershey's of course-I digress, and my mouth is watering), basketball gatherings (UNC v Duke, and we WILL be doing that again this upcoming basketball season since UNC won, GO HEELS!), and a great neighborhood street for walking! We are in a great location, pretty central to family and friends, and we are really enjoying "sharing" our home with friends and family. We are truly blessed to be here, and we look forward to many more shares in the future!

CROWDTAP, SAMSUNG GALAXY TABLET AND AT&T

So I'm a Crowdtap member, in case I haven't said that enough on facebook, twitter, and here, hahaha But from time to time Crowdtap asks us to post pics of different stages, phases, likes, hopes, and dreams of our lives. Here's our current "homework assignment": Take a picture of what summer means to you Upload to Crowdtap with a description of why this describes summer for you Share the picture with your social networks So I shared this picture:

So thank you Crowdtap, AT&T, and Samsung Galaxy for allowing me to share what summer means to me! That's mom, youngest niece, youngest nephew, dad, and my sweet girl in the picture. They're all hanging out at the pool in mom and dad's back yard. We don't get to see my nieces and nephew much, but, when we do, we spend as much time as we can in the pool!! Wrinkled fingers, anyone?? Consider joining Crowdtap for your chance to share your favorite moments in life while earning money for yourself AND charity at the same time! Amazing!

So I was lucky enough to get the Crowdtap McCormick sample party! I was given some sauce, spices, and rub and was asked to throw a party and document it! Although I COULDN'T document all the pics I wanted to (I was too busy playing hostess and setting up the food) I had a WONDERFUL time! Everyone loved the spices, but, hands down, everyone's favorite was the Brown Sugar Bourbon BBQ sauce. We had over 20 adults and at LEAST 10 kids, but we had an absolute blast! I was able to celebrate the 4th of July, watch fireworks, decorate the house, and grill using my FAVORITE spices! Getting this sample share was SO cool because we LOVE to grill and have people over, so it was a PERFECT match for my family!

Here is one of the invites! I used the label and attached it to some McCormick Grill Mates packets I had purchased!

Hubby working the grill like a CHAMP! We had SO many shish kabobs, chicken wings, ribs, and chicken thighs! What a night, AND he even cleaned up the house!

My sister in law and my good friend, Cassie...enjoying the kabobs! It was a WONDERFUL evening! We used the spiced brandy and herb on the chicken thighs (delicious seasoning for pork or chicken), molasses bacon on the chicken wings(also good for pork), brown sugar bourbon on the pork kabobs (but everyone used the sauce on ALL the various meats), memphis pit bbq rub on the boston butt AND the ribs (SO tender and yummy, all you have to do is rub in the spices, refrigerate for at least 2 hours or up to overnight, then grill), and the montreal steak on the, well, on the steak!

THE MEAT!!!! (those Brazilian steakhouses had nothing on us on the 4th, hahaha) I HIGHLY recommend McCormick spices, sauces, and rubs for ALL of your grilling (or cooking or crock pot or oven roasting!) dinner needs! Thanks again McCormick and Crowdtap!