Crawfish and 'Shoes

Robert travels fairly often for work, and recently he decided he wanted to bring back some crawfish from the coast for a little get-together.  To my surprise, he asked me to make some invitations. 

Honestly, my first thought was ain't nobody got time for that, but I could tell he was excited about it.  He's seen me make lots of invites for other people's parties, and I guess he wanted our crawfish boil to be legit.  He's from the Mississippi gulf coast, and I guess I kind of forgot for a second how dang serious he is about his crawfish.  He even already knew how he wanted the invitation to look. 

Bless him. 

He wanted a crawfish going like this...

...with a horseshoe. 

Fair enough.  So I painted this...

...and we sent out these in the nick of time. 

outside

inside

That Saturday the crawfish made it back to Memphis alive, and Rusty gave them a cautious inspection.

A little unsure about the live ones, but he LOVED eating the cooked ones!

Unfortunately, it was unseasonably cold that day!!  Jackets were a must!

Seth and me with the 'Crawfish King' himself.

My little gnome baby.

The weather may have been cool but the crawfish were HOT.  In more ways than one!

Look closely and you can see the steam coming off those dudes- the crawfish, that is :)

Good friends will admire your baby. Great friends will hold him while you eat crawfish.

All in all, it was a really fun day.  We might just make it an annual event.  After all, I already have the invitations!  Plus the yard was too wet to play horseshoes, so I call a do-over!