Hey hey! Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend so far!
Well, my day was pretty fun-tastic…
We finally opened the pool (WOOT!) and we were quite thrilled to see that it was crystal clear with only one gigantic frog at the bottom (we’ve had much worse).
This is where I spent a good amount of my afternoon. 
And if I wasn’t poolside, I was in the kitchen, baking up a storm!
The beginnings of my Stars & Stripes Cookie Cake…
A cupcake order (including a batch of these and these)…
Oh, and these…yeah, we’ll talk about these during the week. 
The one minor catastrophe that took place mid-baking were these lovely burns…
Note to self: Stick with the oven mitt, not the knitted pot holder. Oooof.
While I was in the midst of my baking, we were actually greeted with a couple surprise visitors…
My in-laws, who thought that we were actually going to be out for the evening, came over with intentions to surprise us by filling my newly weeded flower beds in the back yard. How cool is that??
Jay and his parents were hard at work on those flowers…but don’t worry, I made sure to take care of all the supervisory duties.
So now, thanks to my supervising all of their hard work, we’ve got some beautiful
(and some mystery) flowers to look at!
I’m so excited! 
Now for the rest of the evening, Jay and I have a few things on the agenda…
A bonfire, S’mores, and friends…
Does it get much better than that?
I love s’mores! I had some at a bbq last night for dessert, and was very happy. They always make me feel so summery.
Sorry for the burns :-(
SMORES! YUM!!!!
how sweet of your inlaws!!! :)
Yikes! Those burns look like they hurt! I always burn myself because I try and use dish towels instead of oven mitts. lol. Oops :)
LOVE s’mores… my neighbors have one of those fire pits & make s’mores & I secretly hope that they’ll invite me over one of these times! :-)
Mmm, stick a potato chip in one of the s’mores!
Looks like a beautiful day! Delicious goodies, too! And don’t feel bad..I burnt my hand baking today as well. :P
Lucky giiiiiirl! I wish I had a pool. Right now I have the ocean so I really shouldn’t be complaining. Have fun eating yo baked goooods :)
I’d definitely take an ocean right now!
S’mores YUM! Your cupcakes never fail to amaze me- they are all so uniform!
I used to be able to DOWN the smores!
Haha, I still can! :)
Looks like you had such a fun day! (minus the hand burn :(). I’m so jealous you have a pool.
We just did smores in our chiminea on the deck last night. It doesn’t get much better than that! Although, your legit fire pit is a little cooler than our chiminea :)
S’mores are the best! We had them last weekend with Reese’s – you must try it sometime!
Oh girl, I know…s’mores with Reese’s are amazing! I’ve come up with quite a few “gourmet” s’more combos in my day ;)
Mmm… s’mores!!
I love PB and have no idea how I never thought of using Reese’s till now! Any other combos to share?!
Oh gosh…I’d have to think. A couple that come off the top of my head:
-Dark Chocolate & Strawberry Jam
-Crunch Bars
-Milk Chocolate & Pretzels (we did this last night…AMAZING!)
But one of my FAVORITE things to do is, one the s’more is done, ROLL IT in…
-Rice Krispies
-Heath Bar Bits
-Mini Chocolate Chips
-Sprinkles
Can you tell I’m a little obsessed with my s’mores? ;)
Those are genius ideas! I will try some for sure now!
Totally un-related, but I made your stuffed spaghetti squash tonight courtney, and it was to die for!!!!! great recipe girrrrrl! :)
Awesome!!! :-D
Those burns will be haunting you for a while, huh!?!?!
Smores….. That is THE life! Enjoy it!!! :)
I love s’mores, I first discovered them when I was a camp counselor a few years ago – we don’t have them in Ireland so they were a revelation!
Ooo, smores! And gorgeous flowers.
I’m soooooooo jealous of your beautiful pool! Your yard looks great!!
I’ve burned myself many a time in the kitchen… I still have a scar on my upper arm from pulling a cookie sheet out of the oven 5 months ago (don’t ask how I somehow managed to burn my UPPER arm!). So I feel your pain. ;)
those flowers are really pretty! And what a great surprise.
I’ll take some of those cupcakes off your hands GLADLY! Or any of the treats for that matter. Great supervising!!! I supervise in the same sort of way! I don’t think I’d be leaving that pool all weekend!
OUCH! have you ever tried Silvadene cream? works WONDERS on burns!!!!