Summer BBQ on the Farm

What a great time we had yesterday.  We had a family BBQ on the deck.  We had hoped for sunny weather, it was overcast all day, but it was warm and was a nice day.  The 4 kids had a blast running around through the pasture and seeing the chickens and chasing about.  These photos are all candids, no posed shots, no staged "magazine" beauteous-ness.  Just life and kids and family yakking away.  :-)

Caleb, the youngest of the grandkids, took the drink right out of my nephew Cliff's hand, crawled up into an empty chair and figured he was one of the guys. :-)  My brother-in-law Steve is on the left.

The boy's mom took them on a train ride earlier, on Thomas the Train in Hood River.  They arrived to the BBQ sporting train engineer hats and train whistles.

Dayle BBQed two plump chickens on the rotisserie and they turned out tender and delicious.  This was despite a mishap.. hubby was down by the barn and looked up on the deck and he saw flames shooting out the back of the BBQ.. he ran up and opened up the lid and extinguished the flames and found that one chicken has slipped off the spit and the juices were draining on the burner and causing the flare-up.. but after re-securing the chicken and finishing the cooking process and daubing BBQ sauce over it all, you could barely see the charring. LOL

Here is Paige looking at the row of adult men shooting the breeze.. then she had to pull up her cute little skirt so we could all see the shorts under it.  LOL

Jenna brought her Strawberry Shortcake doll up to show us all.

Older sister Roberta brought 10 lbs. of Orange Baked Beans!

Hubby cooked up lots of Polish hotdogs.

The "Grill-Master" and younger sister, Denise.

Grandpa with his brood of grandbabies.. they adore him.  Daughter-in-law Kristi and her two boys.

After dinner my sister Denise and hubby Steve made ice cream cones for the kids with sprinkles!  They were in heaven!

We love ice cream!!

Below is my plate of Blueberry Crisp and vanilla ice cream made by my little sister, Denise.  YUM!!

The girls, Tami my nephew's wife, Amy my daughter, Denise my little sister.

The guys.. Denise's hubby Steve, my son-in-law Jay, my nephew Cliff.

After Caleb took Cliff's first drink.. he came back and took his 2nd drink.. and promptly drained it. His mom is incredulous.

Family.. :-)

Baby Girl Paige.. got a bit dirty.. don't you just love it?  I do!!

Here she is showing me a red rock.. hehe!

Then Caleb decided he wanted Grandpa to give him a ride on the riding mower.. he pointed at the barn door and said "PAPA, PAPA.. ride! RIDE!!  So of course Grandpa got it out and made many trips around the farm yard with babies and kids on his lap.  He lets the kids steer so they *love* it.  And don't worry, the mower is not on during this..

I hung up my crocheted bunting for the affair.  Silly things curl on the bottom, but my guests told me they thought I curled them on purpose! :-)

More kids on the mower...

All in all a great day.. hope you enjoyed hanging out with us.  Thanks for visiting!!
((hugs)), Teresa :-)