Oct. Bunco

We had bunco this month at Michelle's. She had baked potatoes with all the stuff to go on it. Then she ordered these homemade pies from the lady who makes them for Vinegar Jim's, so goooooood!

Paula was one of our subs and it was her birthday so we sang happy birthday to her.



Debbie, another one of our subs, rolled the first big bunco of the night.




Kelley, Jennifer and Linda were the winners for the evening. These are cute glow witches from Avon and they sing "Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun", so appropriate.




And then here is the traditional Jen/Wendy pose and a couple others.





And here is Michelle with her cowardly lion toy from McDonald's.

September Bunco

We had September bunco at Janet's. It was our first time to actually play bunco at Janet's. We had met there in the past but had a bridal shower and just a eat and talk before. First we went outside for some photos. Janet has such pretty scenery in her backyard.









Then we had fun jumping on the trampoline and checking out the new pool.





This one is kinda blurry but a great pose.




Then we headed inside for the meal. We had a rotel chicken casserole, green bean casserole and salad. It was yummy but didn't compare to the dessert. Ooey-gooey-butter cake. It melted in your mouth -- so good!

Then we played some bunco.





"Ooh Linda you smell good"

Bunco or Shopping?

Jennifer W. was our bunco hostess for August. She welcomed us this month.



She thought she had a food disaster but things turned out very well. We had burgers (that we ate with no bread), potato salad, chips and some kind of corn dip. We had some chocolate chip peanut butter thing for dessert, as you see it was really good.



While eating our delicious dinner, the obvious question was asked, Do we even have the bunco stuff? Jenn W. was honestly shocked that she had not even thought about the necessity of the dice to play bunco. So we sat and talked for a minute and decided we should go shopping instead.









And here is the traditional Jen/Wendy pic for the month:

July Bunco

We had July bunco at Courtney's house. She made us chicken enchiladas, spanish rice and beans. For dessert we had some pecan pie chocolate layer thing. It was yummy! She also made up virgin strawberry margaritas (no drunko bunco as she said).

Only five of us got the subliminal message in the email that we were having patriotic bunco and dressed in blue. The four of us had almost the exact same color of blue on.



Some other colors combos we had for the evening were green:



Purple:



And brown/black/navy:



Here is Sheri suddenly remembering she forgot to bring the bunco bucket, oops, run home real quick. Don't worry, we'll wait!



And here is Jenn L. and Leigh, 2 of the 3 winners for the evening, sporting our new shades.

Olive Garden bunco

Kelley was the hostess this month and we were going to have several girls out this month. Summer seems to be a little more difficult to get together with all that is going on so Kelley decided we should just go out to eat. She chose Olive Garden, which we all love. So this month we had salad and breadsticks to go along with our talks and laughs.

Those in attendance were Kelley, Wendy, Jenn W., Jenn L., Cheryl and Melissa.









We had to stop and make fun of Jenn W for number one allowing her license to expire for almost a year and took a picture of the difference 10 years makes.



And then Kelley treated us to a yummy chocolate cake. As you can see it was really good.

May Bunco

Sheri was the hostess for our May bunco, we had pizza and pie, such a delight.

Stephanie and Melissa were are subs and Sally joined us as well.



Melissa had been feeling some labor pains earlier that day so Sheri decided it might be a good idea to put a bag underneath her, just in case. (of course we found out the next day it wasn't such a bad idea as all the uncontrollable laughter and fun sent Melissa into labor on Friday)



Since Wendy wasn't able to be there, Jen W. found a couple of new temporary camera buddies for the night.





Janet decided it might be fun to play a twist on a shall we say familiar bridal shower game. Here are some of the things that we say while playing bunco:



"Forget it, I can't do it"
"We are just slip sliding around"
Give me that, give me that, GIVE ME THAT"
"You don't tell a woman to stop"
"I can't sit on the long end"
"I think I should shake them"
"Why am I stopping?"
"This is Sally's first time to come"
"I'm going to use the other hand"


We also discovered a new way of rolling the dice by hitting the bottom of the card table and making the dice bounce. This resulted in uncontrollable laughter.



Here are a couple more pictures:

April bunco

Jen L. was the hostess for April. She decided to host at her mom's house so there would be plenty of room. There was craftiness everywhere from the decor to the prizes.
Here are the cups and napkins:





Our menu included mexican chicken and corn pudding and of course the chocolate fountain for dessert.

Jen W. rolled the first bunco of the evening. She was very excited when she rolled a second bunco thinking she would be able to take home the big bunco prize but Paula beat her out when she rolled 3 big buncos.





We kept score using these little boxes that Jen L. made for everyone and m&m's. We used a big peanut butter m&m's for big buncos and regular m&m's for wins. Wendy thought they made great little shakers.



Here are the subs for the evening: Lindy, Matilda (aka Madie) and Paula.



And here are some other shots of the night:







And here is a photo of Jen W. and Wendy. It seems we have this exact photo only with different clothes almost every month. Hmm, wonder how that happens. I also have a great video of the two of them but I will refrain from posting on the internet for now. But the two of them better be real nice to me over the next few months, hehe!