Day Two Hundred Seventy Seven 2012

Grandpeeps Shelby and Elijah are on fall break this week and next, so we’re having a sleepover tonight complete with campfire, marshmallow roast (s’mores!),  a movie (The Avengers) and popcorn. Fun stuff, good times!
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Happy 15th Birthday, Julia (Ocean Child) Foy!!

Day One Hundred Forty Eight 2012

We enjoyed a Memorial Day Weekend marshmallow and hot dog roast in our back yard this evening. Son in law Jerry and hubby Neil are ready to roast.

With record temperatures this weekend, it wasn’t the best conditions for a camp fire, but that didn’t stop us from having a great time and stuffing ourselves with roasted hot dogs and marshmallows.

Here is son in law Jerry’s perfect S’more. His secret is letting the chocolate melt beside the fire while he roasts his marshmallows. Talk about yummy! This picture doesn’t do it justice because of the shadows on the plate. I didn’t take many pics tonight because the ones I did take turned out totally blurry. We had a most excellent time!  Happy Memorial Day Weekend, America!

Day One Hundred Nineteen 2011

My family enjoyed our special annual roast tonight in our back yard when we all get together and incinerate hot dogs and marshmallows and stuff ourselves with s'mores and Doritos and fried Easter Peeps and such and laugh and talk and just have a good old time being us and disturbing the whole neighborhood until midnight. At least we didn't set off any fireworks. That's coming in July, of course. I took this picture with my cell phone camera in the Solaris color setting. Looks like a freaky face. We had a good time. Let's do it all over again next year, OK?

Day One Hundred Thirteen

Roast

What do you get when you put together a fun family, a fire built inside an old oil drum cut in half, a bunch of long sticks whittled to a point and three bags of Jet Puffed Marshmallows? You get the Ranft/Kimbrough/Myers/Foy/Sissom Annual Marshmallow Roast (although we've come to call it many different things over the years, some of which no one else on the planet would understand besides said family members). This is the first roast we've had in about the last four years due to circumstances beyond our control--usually foul weather or family members unable to attend. When that happens, we just don't have it. We've also come to add hot dogs and S'mores to our menu. It's all good and it's great fun and once again the neighbors didn't call the police. Let's do it all over again next year, guys!