Strawberry Pickin' Time!

It's been tradition for several years that Papa takes the girls strawberry picking. It started many years ago when Maggie was pretty teeny... and a few years back Lucy got to join the fun. Because of the cool, wet spring, strawberries were a bit later this year... and littler. But- as the girls liked to remind me- the smaller berries are sweeter! 

 Lucy was SERIOUS about her work... 

 ...although I think she may have eaten half as many as she picked!

Recipe

Maggie REALLY wants to bake an apple pie. 

She even wrote out the recipe for us to follow: 

For those of you not used to working with phonetic spellers, allow me to translate:  

to bake a pie

egg 1

flour 2 cups

sugar 3 teaspoons

apple 4 cut up

dough 5 rolls

oven 

3568

take out

cool cut pie

eat 5 pieces

Fun in the Sun!

Summer time means SPRINKLER TIME!

 Hattie (cautiously) watches... 

 These two pictures pretty much define FUN!

 Hattie finally braved the sprinkler... she decided she was not a fan. 

 Lunch time!

 This is when the girls were drying off. Maggie had a blue towel. Lucy had a pink. They wrapped themselves up like this and were taking turns playing "Urgent Mary" 

 Bathing Beauty! 

 Time for sunbathing!

 Yeah.... well, she was just too cute not to take one more picture!