We did it!!  We had our first official group cookout this weekend.  I was a little nervous because of the size of our house.  To give you an idea of just how small it is, you can’t have more than two people standing side by side in the kitchen at one time.  It’s pretty small.  When we bought the house we didn’t care because, let’s face it, the kitchen was the least used room of any place I’ve ever lived.  Of course now that I’m domesticated, that is supposed to change.  And it is too.  Like the cookout – we had potato salad, hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, and desserts.  Granted, everything was storebought right down to the pre-packaged hamburger patties, but you gotta start somewhere.

The funniest part was having so many people in the house at one time.  There were 12 of us in all, including four kids.  We spent half the time hanging on the sofa and the other half in the shade of the backyard.  It was not too bad, especially since the weather was nice.  I felt bad for the kids as we didn’t really have a lot of kid toys, which of course nowadays means computers and video games.  We have one of those “new” Atari games they came out with a few years ago.  I mentioned it as an option.  It didn’t go over too well.  

It’s official – I’m old.  

So here’s our little grill (word to the wise- briquettes need to be replaced at least once a year).  Even though it only cost us $40.00 and doesn’t have any automatic features, it grills just fine and the food was tasty.

And here’s the chef.  I should get him one of those manly aprons and bar-b-que hats – he’d look so cute. 

With no outside tv, a mean game of Skip-Bo quickly ensued.  

My mom was in town and was trying out her new Nikon D60.  Seems like a pretty good camera, it was my first time viewing it in person.  It looks like a good bridge between the point-and-shoot and the DSLR.  In fact, I really liked the LCD screen – very high tech and quite different from the D80.  But I digress…

The little ones were kept occupied by playing with the dog.  

And FINALLY – the food was ready – Yum!

My cousin and her kids pose for the camera.  

We girls chose to stay inside where there was air conditioning and no bugs.  

All-in-all, a great first cookout.  Maybe we’ll do it again soon.  Then again, maybe we’ll wait till next year.

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