This ultimate Mediterranean hummus board has your favorite cheese board elements with the best ever hummus with spiced meat, grape leaves, pickles, olives, and pita. It's mostly no-cook and make-ahead for the perfect party meal!
IT FEELS LIKE CHRISTMAS MORNING. I just love this so much.
...OMG OMG OMG. 
In a real world we probably can't have all of these things for one meal. Or shouldn't, at the very least. ButIwanttosobadseriously.
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HAPPY NOVEMBER. How. Is. It. Here. 
Since Thanksgiving is just three weeks away (how.is.it.here.), we have to start prepping our menu ASAP! Our plans are pretty up in the air this year due to newborn status (basically, if anyone has so much as a sniffle we aren't going), but our tentative plan is to have a day with Jay's family and a day with mine and the rest of the weekend for Jay to parent HARD because he has to travel for work the following Monday. At five seconds postpartum, almost identical to when Beck was born.
Luckily I'm super tough and not ever overwhelmed or weepy so I'll be fiiiine. Translation: Beck loves movies and we have lots of family in town.
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...because otherwise tbh football is a waste of damn time. 
So! Let's make a party on Sunday. I love a theme sometimes, like tacos, pasta, or chili with a ton of toppings, but I also love making a few really good snacky foods that don't necessarily go together. Buffalo anything shows up often, and here are a few other ideas for Sunday!
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I know that I'm such a broken record, but I can't believe the days are shortening and summer is over halfway over. We still have plenty of long hot days ahead, sure, and I basically feel like I have summer FOMO. Now that it's mid-July I want to be sure I do all of the fun summer things before we move into all the fun fall things. 
By 10am on Monday we had our entire weekend planned with summery things. Working for the weekend doesn't begin to describe the amount of vacation-mode that is going on here even though we don't have any more vacations planned. ...