About Me

South Louisiana
I have been married for 20 years to a great husband and we have 8 children ranging in age from 1 to 18 years. I am a homeschooling mom, which can be very challenging. I love sewing, knitting, reading, gardening and have recently started oil painting. I love to create. I really want to have a blog to show off some of the stuff I create, but I also want to share about my life and family. email me at ctrich8@bellsouth.net

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Mother's Day in Cajun Country

Down here in South Louisiana we celebrate Mother's Day a little differently ; ) We had a crawfish boil. My Mom and Dad came over for the day and we boiled mud bugs. The girls had a good time taking pictures, there were over 190 taken on my camera.
We had 60 pounds of crawfish total, and this little ziploc bag was all that was left! Yeah, we are some pigs. I know Austin ate 10 - 15 pounds by himself. This is the sort of thing I eat until I am sick. We only eat it 3 or 4 times a year, they aren't cheap, so you have to get your fill when you get the chance lol


We also boiled potatoes, corn, onions, mushrooms, sausage and garlic. I ate half a head of garlic myself. Chad said I finally smell normal this morning : D lololol

My mom had also made two banana puddings for dessert. Let's just say I didn't bother eating dinner that night. I probably ate enough to last me the week. The kids had fun swimming and the guys watched golf. It was a very nice and relaxing Mother's Day.

The crawfish were HUGE, here is Savannah holding a couple up for the camera.


Paw Paw (my Dad) playing with Sam and Ava.


Samuel and Ava playing in the blowup kiddie pool my Mom bought for them.


Sydney Claire is such a cut up lol


A couple more random pictures of the pigout lol

8 comments:

Cassie@You Go Girl said...

Looks like a lovely day. And I LOVE the guilt-free eating that comes with pregnancy. I hope you enjoyed.

Take care,
Cassie

Home's Jewels said...

Can I send my boys to your house - they would have loved all of that fun!

Marie said...

What?!? Austin can really eat that much crawfish? The most I can eat by myself now is 3-4 pounds and I'm stuffed! Must be because he's a teenage guy. That looks like my kind of Mother's Day...Jake is from Cali and does not eat crawfish and thinks it's disgusting, he just doesn't know what he's missing out on!

Happy Mother's Day!

Anonymous said...

Holy Cow! That is a lot of food. I have never had crawfish before.

Looks like you guys had an amazing time!

I love the crawfish kissy face :)

Amber said...

Fun - I don't think I've ever had crawfish...but it looks like a fun feast! What a wonderful Mother's Day!

Anonymous said...

This looks like a perfect day! Fabulous!

michelle@somedaycrafts said...

I just found your blog from Stop Staring... My family just had a huge crawfish boil when we were visiting Lafayette. Looks delish! I wish Utah had the same kind of food that Louisiana has!!!

Cris said...

I'm so grateful in seeing families that are still happy. They are very rare now.