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Crawfish and 'Shoes

5/15/2013

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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...

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...with a horseshoe. 

Fair enough.  So I painted this...
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...and we sent out these in the nick of time. 
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outside
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inside
That Saturday the crawfish made it back to Memphis alive, and Rusty gave them a cautious inspection.
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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!
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Seth and me with the 'Crawfish King' himself.
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My little gnome baby.
The weather may have been cool but the crawfish were HOT.  In more ways than one!
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Look closely and you can see the steam coming off those dudes- the crawfish, that is :)
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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!
10 Comments
Bri
5/15/2013 06:57:31 am

I love the way Seth is looking at Cassie in that pic!

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Holly
5/16/2013 01:06:24 am

Well, she IS pretty fascinating!

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Tracie
5/15/2013 07:05:53 am

Motherhood looks great on you Holly! Beautiful as always! And your baby boy is precious!!

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Holly
5/16/2013 01:06:50 am

Thanks Tracie!

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Robert
5/15/2013 07:07:09 am

Crawfish king has a nice ring to it!

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Holly
5/16/2013 01:07:42 am

Don't let it go to your head dear.

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Rhonda
5/15/2013 09:20:18 am

Love those invitations! Family is beautiful!

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Holly
5/16/2013 01:08:11 am

Thank you!

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11/23/2013 02:49:39 pm

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