Sunday, July 8, 2012

Our First Crowdtap Party

For the last year or so, I have been a member of a website called Crowdtap. It's a survey/sampling website where you can give you opinions on a wide variety of products, services, and everyday activities. They also have companies that they work with, such as Old Navy, Verizon and AT&T Wireless, Goldfish Crackers, and McCormicks Grilling spices. You can win prizes and stuff - it's pretty cool and a chance to shape the marketing of products.

I had a chance to do a sponsored party for two different vendor partners. One of them was McCormick's Grill Mates Spices and the other was Verizon Wireless. McCormick's sent me this great assortment of spices to use for the food (plus the nifty BBQ apron):

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Verizon sent me gift cards to pay for the food and any downloads we wanted to purchase as part of the party. I decided for the Verizon part of the party that I would have my son Matt give a quick tutorial to teach us older folks how to use all these darn smart phones.

We invited a selection of our dear friends - mostly people we've gone to church with for years. And then we got to cooking. My husband is the cook of the family and he whipped up a delicious pork roast with the Brown Sugar Bourbon BBQ sauce that was to die for. We also grilled chicken breasts with the Memphis Pit BBQ Rub.

Here's a mouthwatering picture of the pork:

Here's me in my apron in my kitchen getting ready for the party. I forgot to get a picture of Tony and his brand spankin' new OU (Oklahoma University) spatula that he bought in honor of the occasion (MEN!).

Here we are chowing down. Matt is the one giving me grief (as usual) and his darling girlfriend Pam sitting next to him. At the end of the table is our dear friend Dusty and his wife Bonnie (who is our Real Estate agent) is cut off at the edge of the picture.

After dinner, we all got our cell phones out and swapped pictures around, and looked at some apps. Matt gave us his best recommendation for a GPS app - WAZE, and showed us how to download ring tones - Mine is the Mom, mom, mommy, mom one from Family Guy for the boys and a great version of a Jackson 5 song for my husband - "Oh baby give me one more chance to tell you that I love you". Remember that one. Only it says "Oh baby please pick up the phone, your husband's calling". Very funny and I can always tell who is calling me!