Birthday Boy!

Although today is my birthday, it's time I shared what we did for J's birthday... we had a crab feed. Not just any crab feed, an all-you-can-eat-till-you-are-sick-to-yer-stomach crab feed!

J decided he wanted a small dinner party with some of his close friends, and an all you can eat good time! We ended up with 14 people and 25 pounds of crab!

The places were set with a seafood cracker as a gift for each person...


Butchy made the most scrumptious Olathe Sweet Corn paprika/chili powder Coblets. YUM!

It's not often you get to see 25 pounds of king crab legs! This is Casey taking a closer look.

We had to cook them in a Turkey Fryer, OF COURSE! What else can fit that much crab?? We cooked in batches of about 5 pounds each, and delivered rounds of fresh outta the pot crab every 20 minutes or so. Thanks Gray for the Turkey Fryer!

With 25 pounds of crab comes 7 pounds of butter! Gray spent a couple days clarifying the butter so it would be ever so perfect for our evening. It looked good, but not so good that I'd take a bite out of it!

We lined up three tables through our living room & dining room so we could all sit at one long table, which makes for lottts more fun! Thanks Christen for the picture - I was not getting up from the table as my butter-coma had already kicked in!

I love how each end of the table in this pic has a gun show going on!

Christen baked JJ a wheatless chocolate cake that was like eating the inside of a truffle - mmm mmm good!! I loovvveeedd the little J stencils on the top!

To say he was happy would be an understatement!

He had to proceed to give a speech about how much he loves his friends and how much they mean to him and yadda yadda love yadda. This is him toasting everyone with the cake - oh yes he did!

Happy Birthday! Here's to the big 3-5!