Family Fire (by Dan)

Pam is the love of my life, how do I know this? Because it's winter outside (Pam hates, nay fears, nay writhes and squirms inside with a festering, oozing, frigid pit of despair inside that just can't seem to get warm, no matter the temperature inside or outside) and Pam, PAM!, has the brilliant idea to have a family fire in our little fire pit in the back yard, on the patio, in the snow. Yep, Pam! WANTS to go outside in the snow!

Well, this is an opportunity that can't be missed. So I spring into action, grab the fire pit from the garage (yep it's that small! heheh), grab the wood and saw some branches off our christmas tree. Pam grabs the Mallows, Malt Balls, and makes some amazing hot cocoa to warm our tummys.

Pam was also responsible for this amazing kindling! She grabbed an empty toilet paper roll, wait it gets better!, packs it solid with dryer lint and melts wax over the ends! What a fantastically messy little log, but boy did it work great! Thanks to Pam, Toby and I were able to get the fire ripping pretty quick.

The timing was perfect, we started the fire at the tail end of dusk and so just as our fire starting a burning, the stars and crisp night air came rushing in around us.

The fire was PERFECT, we roasted marshmallows, overloaded the fire with pine branches that WHOOSH! CRACKLE! POP! go up in flame amazingly fast!, sang campfire songs, pondered deep subjects like why exactly is it that smoke picks someone and just won't leave them alone! We sipped cocoa, we watched the glowing ashes raise into the air and land in the snow, We bonded and created a memory that I know I will cherish for a long, long time.

How could you possibly not fall in love every day, with a family like mine. Thanks for the great fire Pam, Toby, Sadie and Baby Buster Boo!!1!111!!!!

Okay, so Blogger is lame and the pictures are backwards... so check them out from the bottom up... or not :o)

- Dan

MMmmmmm Warm!

MMmmmmm Mallows!

Success!

Dan and Toby Lighting the Fire