She's a Louisiana Girl at Heart

Another big tradition for Easter with Keith's family are crawfish boils on Easter Sunday.  Unfortunately we were not going to be able to make it home for Easter so instead when Keith's parents came up last week we had them bring their crawfish pot and we were able to get some crawfish from a place north of Tyler and off we set to boil up some delicious food!

We made sure to have all of the essentials in our boil including: mushrooms, two types of sausage, onions, and even artichokes!  Of course there was plenty of beer and friends to enjoy all of the Louisiana Easter festivities!

Ella Kate was so enthralled with watching Keith clean the crawfish and at one point tried to stick her whole hand in the ice chest.  Guess they looked like fun little pets!  She is such an animal lover.

She made sure to oversee all of her daddy's work!

It was shortly after this picture that the hand went into the icechest!

We even convinced her to hold one of the live crawfish!  This was as close as she came to eating one though.  I tried really hard to get her to take a bite but she looked at me like I was nuts!

She did have fun trying to force feed Nona the shell of an already peeled one though.

Guess it was a good thing her BFF Kloe was over to play with to distract her from the fact that the rest of us were eating something and she wasn't. 

Hopefully next year we will be able to have a few more boils and show our Tyler friends what its like to have a little bit of Louisiana in Texas!

Oh and just a note... my friend Carrie who I have mentioned on here before is going in for her induction today... please pray for an easy labor and birth for her.  I can't wait to meet little Owen!