Front Yard BBQ

It is hard being in a new home... with new friends, no family... especially when holidays come around. We managed to have a pretty good time for Easter, but we wanted to do a little some thing fun for Memorial Day. Danny preached this morning (he did great) so we knew we had to stay close to home, but we brought the fun to our home.

This evening we got out our BBQ pit, put it on the driveway, and Danny made a roaring inferno (it actually was quite the opposite for a while). It is a foreign concept for us to have the fire going in the front yard... in the driveway, but that is really the only safe place that we have here to do it -- quite the opposite of NH.

I got out the hot dogs (yes, this was my yearly hot dog meal -- and I'm not even at the Illian's lake house!) and watermelon for a summery dinner. Grace roasted her own hot dog for the first time and LOVED IT! I think she would have eaten 2 if I hadn't made her eat something else. She didn't like the smokey-ness, though. She is a real champ and her daddy delighted in showing her all of the proper techniques.

Hannah enjoyed to view of us cooking... and delighted that we kept feeding her more and more. :) She ate 2 hot dogs, watermelon and macaroni! Oink! Oink! She loved being strapped in the booster seat... we loved that she was safe and sound!

Once the dinner portion was over, we got out the chocolate, marshmallows and graham crackers. Grace roasted her own and put her s'more together. She liked the marshmallow plain but didn't really care for the s'more. She just wanted to eat the chocolate. That's my girl! :)

So... it was a successful event. I am sure that it will happen again this summer... I may resort to another food, though, for my dinner. It was a great family time! We even had many neighbors stop and take notice. We invited them to come and join us. Maybe next time.

Tomorrow will be another family day... with nothing really planned except for in the evening. A family from church invited us to join their BBQ. We are planning on that.