Family time

You'd think by the look on their faces that they were getting ready for something rather serious. Like a stick fight. or yard work. or some other torturous activity like that.

But no, those serious faces were due to the fact that they were on a mission....to find the most perfect marshmallow roasting stick possible.

Very serious business, this smore-making stuff.

So there I was innocently taking pictures of my rather stoned-faced girls prepping for a night of crazy family fun, when I turned around and saw this atrocity:



A random fire pit in the middle of the grass. with flames going every which way. and branches hanging overhead.

Rumor has it this nonsensical FirePit location was made by this man:

*faces have been blocked out to protect the stupid innocent

Take note of the water hose in Anonymous's hand. It was due to the fact that Mama Paparazzi had a little sumpin-sumpin to say when the wind started blowing. and the flames started spazzing, coming dangerously close to everything green.

But these brave little girls weren't concerned, standing near by to watch Flaming Family Fun.

Though if you take note, Selah was making sure to keep the precious marshmallows behind her back. Just in case. ;)

But what got me was this...


the fact that inches away was a completely logical and ...hello!....non-green, safe place to have a fire.

When the above Anonymous Fire Starter was first questioned about the obvious lack of intelligence concerning the fire pit locale, he calmly went on to state:

"You can't burn anything over this. Because it's tar...and it'll emit toxic fumes."

Oh. Huh. Okay. I, uh, knew that.

Name and image of the person originally questioning Jet's keen sense of wisdom has been withheld to protect the innocent stupid. *cough cough*


Raegan loved everything about it.


I mean, what's not to love? There's fire (danger), Daddy (favorite person), and snacks (duh!).


I tried to get a picture of them...but they were too busy inhaling to notice me.


though Lani, right behind the girls, was all over hamming it up.


Can't you HEAR the snort by just looking at that picture? ;)

Lani's view of the whole situation:


See how serious Charis is? Eating is even more serious than stick collecting. Really, they were having a good time.


Afterwards the girls ran, high on sugar, to their tire swing.


Daddy and Lani got in on the action for a while.


But when they left, Charis was on her own to push...


or kick.


or whatever it took to get the sucker moving.

It doesn't take much to have a fun family night around here. I mean, we got a resident Pyromaniac. An every-day mommy maniac. A snorting sister. and three rather serious sisters who just like living.

And really, how could you not have fun with that group? ;)