Jelly!!!

We have an incredible group of couples from our church (The Ranch House Empty Nester's) who decided to "adopted" our family and they have blessed us beyond belief this summer. Each week they send the kids a card with a special note and some type of gift. We've also received fun family stuff (movie tickets, ice cream, roller skating). Caleb looked at me the other day after receiving his card and said, "mommy we need to start doing special things for other people like they've done for us." I couldn't agree more! What a great example these people have been for our kiddos and they have made us all feel so loved!

One of the sweet couples (Dan and Regina), who we just love, invited us to their house to pick grapes for making jelly. I have to admit, I was a little intimidated about making jelly, ok actually, A LOT intimidated- making jelly is definitely out of my "range of limited cooking knowledge". But we called in the big guns- MAMAW, and she came to the rescue with her 10 cups of sugar and mad jelly making skills. Love that women. The girls were very into the entire process- the boys didn't seem to really care, but they will care when they chomp into a delicious PB and J with homemade grape jelly!






































Elijah and Sarah lost interest pretty quickly and were ready to swim. This is E's basket- every little bit helps I guess.






























And the final product...cute little jars of yummy grape jelly!!! So fun!