Marlene's Campfire Party

For her birthday this year, Marlene wanted an overnight stay with her friends. Since most of her friends are boys, I figured, we make it an evening campfire party. That should be easy in a summer, where it only rained 3 days out of 3 months. Well, you guessed it, the moment I lit the fire it started to pour and it pretty much did not stop for 12 hours. We had fun anyway. I made a wood fire in our small BBQ and handed each kid a sharpened stick (yes, open fire and sharp sticks, I am crazy). We had chicken nuggets, mini wieners, meatballs and "Teeny Tiny Potatoes" to roast in the fire. Then we moved to pineapple and cantaloupe. As the cake part of the party, the kids got to bake their own sweet bread on a stick over the fire. You take a sweet yeast dough, wrap it around the stick and then slowly cook it to perfection. Off course, we had to finish up with smores, because no good campfire can end without smores. The feeding frenzy was only interrupted by a cherry pit spitting competition, that was won by Hazelyn. There is a future cherry pit champion. After 2 hours outside in the rain, we moved inside, unwrapped presents, and played games. I don't know how the kids felt, but I liked it and had a lot of fun. Thanks to Paula, who helped manage the kids. Happy 8th Birthday, Marlene.