Memorial Part #2

On Sunday, after we got home from church, Bryce and I put together the food and prepared the bbque chicken, garlic chicken, and dutch oven potatoes.  As soon as Clayton woke from his nap, we headed back to Mantua. We were aiming to all meet back up there for dinner.  Bryce and I arrived around 4:30.  Bryce got the charcoals going and we preceded to start a fire.

We decided to bring up some firewood with us.  It was a good thing because all the wood that we had collected was soaking wet.  We set the chairs up around the fire so they would dry out.  We wiped down all the tables and started preparing for dinner.  Shortly after that, everyone started to show up.  The charcoals took a long time to get hot because the flames kept blowing out.  We also had a small rain storm come through.  Luckily, it only lasted about 15 minutes!

Originally Grandma and Grandpa Cooper were going to come join us for dinner, but it ended up being too cold.  Jocie, Tawni, and Ty came up for dinner. Before dinner was served, Britt and Tawni went out for a ride in the razor. A few minutes later, I got a phone call from Britt.  She had rolled the razor over on its side, but both her and Tawni were OK.  It scared them a little bit, but they were fine.  The men went down the road to help them.

All the kids had a great time playing on the hill again.  It was still really wet and muddy, so they had to be careful about where they went.  Clatyon and Landon had a great time playing "Hop Scotch" in the mud.  Jacqui drew the boxes with a stick and they jumped over and over again.  During the prayer, I looked over to see Clayton jumping with his arms folded.

Dinner ended up tasting so good.  The chicken was very tender and the flavor was great.  The potatoes were really good.  I have a problem with dutch oven potatoes...if they are not cooked all the way through....and normally people don't cook them long enough....Anyway, I didn't add enough soup to them before they cooked, so after they were finished, we added milk. 

Later for dessert, we had smores, cookies, and dutch oven apple cobbler.  It was really good and there was way too much food.  We had a great time sitting around the fire, roasting marshmallows, singing songs, and doing little skits.  The smaller kids did a bunch of skits and they had a blast!  Cohen did a great job.  He just got passed from person to person and only cried when he was hungry. After the kids went down for the night, we all sat around the fire visitng before it was time to hit the sack and get some rest for the coming fun packed day!