When you live in a place that gets terribly HOT!!!!!!!!! it's important to keep lots of good food in stock since going outside isn't too much of an option.
Sure you can swim, or beat the heat at the park in the early morning, but if you are my boys and wishing you could LIVE outside most summer days, then food is a little more than important.
These green grapes tasted like heaven's candy. They were crisp and tart--and from Costco! We all decided we could live off those all summer if we could keep up with our supply.
One day we invited cousins over for a sprinkler party and made cupcakes! The boys were extra excited because mommy knows all too well what nonsense they put in those cake mixes and frosting tubs. But they enjoyed them. And I even had a couple--along with a tummy ache that soon followed. (So not worth it!)
And the picture of the "Randolph Pine Cone Tree," as we dubbed it, was carefully created by collecting 101 pine cones. We went to the park by the library, and the boys were quite tenacious about knocking pine cones out the trees so we'd have enough for our tree. They climbed fences, chucked frisbees, and dug through bushes just to find the precious cones.
We ended up using about 80 of them or so to complete our little tree, and the glue gun was one duty, while another was to stick and stack them, and another was to sort the pine cones into piles by size. It turned out rather nice, we think. Can't wait to display our Christmas table centerpiece!! Nice Pine Cone Hunting, Boys!
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Those grapes are amazing and they have helped us beat the heat in our hot summer's here as well! :)
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