What do you do when...

What do you do when the kids pick three cups of mulberries in less than an hour due to creativity, diligent planning, and cooperation?  Make a pie!

The Mulberries

The Pickers

The Recipe

 The Filling

The Crust

 

 

The Finished Product

 They made a deal with me that since they did all of the picking and pie making that they would get to split the pie equally between them.  After a little razzing about how I made the crust, and it's our tree as well as our ingredients, we agreed to let them have their pie and eat it, too.  :) 

Toasty Oasty!

First Bombfire of 2014 

This is the life!

 

Where there are marshmallows, Harper's not too far away.  She starts in the most obvious place for mallows...

After her failed attempt, she begins her search for the easy-to-take mallows.

She then searches for the child most likely to drop mallows or become easily distracted.

Will it be Sophie?

Or will it be Ella?

Did someone say marshmallow?!?!

She is not understanding why Daddy is throwing her chewing logs in the fire.

Ella had an assortment of frightening faces throughout the evening. 

Harper finally stakes claim on Sophie. 

She was basically on marshmallow lockdown.

I am Marshmallow Man!

So unfair that Dad is throwing her logs in the fire...

And Soph's not dropping any mallows!

Here you go, Harpie!

What to do when mallow lands on your shoe (or foot)?

Harpie to the rescue!

Ending the evening with a little backyard baseball.

Somewhere...

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far
Behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow why, oh, why can't I?

Hard Working Heusys

After the long day of baseball, these kiddos worked hard for 5 hours in the garden with mom and dad.  Brock was in charge of driving the golf cart to empty weed buckets into the dumpster.  They would fill and empty, fill and empty, fill and empty.  We finished just in time before the rain set in.  Hard work definitely pays off!  Sophie worked hard, too; however, she did not eat her lunch, so she couldn't have ice cream.  Think she may have learned her lesson.  We'll see.  ;)

Love the scoops of summer!

Benefit for Beaver Crossing

The Crete Diamonds were invited to participate in a baseball tournament to help raise money for the Beaver Crossing baseball team to replace supplies lost from the recent tornado.  It was an all-day baseball extravaganza.  The first game, Crete played the Valpraiso 1 team and lost 2-0.  It was a close game in which Crete left the bases loaded in the bottom of the last inning, and I can probably speak for all of the parents in saying that it was quite the nailbiter.  Following their first lost, Crete preceded to win their next two games to face Denton in their battle for 3rd place.  All teams played exceptionally well, and Crete came out with win to finish 3rd.  Way to go, Diamonds!  

Saturday Night Lights

The tournament finally ended at 11:30 p.m..  It was quite the night; one to definitely go down in the books!