Cookout & Campfire at the Cabin

Our friends Colleen & Jason invited a group of peeps over to their in-the-middle-of-nowhere-Mississippi log cabin for a cookout and campfire bash. The girls were most excited about getting to "pet the chickens" at "Mrs. Cahweens" house :)

Here is the hostess herself. This is the platter the raw burger patties were just on. Not sure why she chose this to be her picture prop... :)

and her hubby cooking the burgs and dogs on his awesome grill....I mean look at this thing....it has a counter top and everything. Very cool.

We got to see friends we haven't seen in a long time like Caleb (a former student at South that we were close to) and we got to meet his girlfriend, Missy. Ya'll are so cute!

Sam and Jenny....there are just no words.... :)

Me and Laura :)

Mr. and Mrs. Blackman!! SO great to see you guys. We can't let MONTHS or even YEARS pass between us hanging out....seriously!

Enjoying some yummy hotdogs...

Some more friends....

OK, so the Baxter clan was also enjoying this fun-filled event...I'm not sure how I didn't get a picture of any of their crew....maybe because 3 of their kiddos were out in the front yard playing in the bottom of a gigantor mud hole crater....dang it...I so should have snapped a pic of that...they were covered in filth. It was awesome :)

OK people....this is a pic of the most DELICIOUS cupcakes I've ever tasted. I'm being so serious. They were divine....carrot cake with cream cheese icing, red velvet with creme cheese icing, and chocolate with chocolate icing. OH.MY.GOODNESS.

And here is their creator, Alisa, with me and Colleen in a cupcake trance....

The girls were crazy pumped about their first ever campfire. Here they are with Bree anxiously awaiting for Jason to get the fire going....

And he definitely got it going .... :)

They couldn't wait to roast marshmallows. I wanted them to be careful around the fire and not get too close so for some CRAZY reason I told them that they didn't need to get too close to the fire b/c if they did the fire would make their eyes would melt and fall out....WHAT?!?!? Why did I say that??? I mean...1. That's not even true! and 2. They take everything so literally these days so now I scared them to death about getting 15 feet away from a campfire. WOW. I am an awesome mom. Geeeez. They did freak out at first, but Shane finally convinced them that they could get close enough to roast a marshmallow and that their eyes would NOT melt and fall out. :)

Here they are roasting their first ever marshmallows....

and their 2nd and 3rd marshmallows....

and their 4th and 5th marshmallows....

at this point they were basically turning into two little marshmallows :)

Gabbie looks like she is about to throw up...I wonder why :)

They were definitely sugar-filled when we left. What great country fun!! Thanks so much to the Smith's for their amazing hospitality!!!