Lavender .... I love it! I love the smell and love to watch it grow in the herb box and around Ashlyn's playhouse! I've never used it for a syrup though until I just tried a simple syrup of sugar, water and lavender buds. It makes a delicious lavender lemonade!!!! This has been our favorite summer drink!!!
We came out of a week of Bible School at church and wow has it been both very good and very busy! The kids loved it and this year I volunteered to help each night! That was fun, tiring and full of life!!! The drama team the best EVER drama story of the life of Joseph! One of the youth guys wrote the script, a youth girl did all the costumes and many youth made it happen it night with acting! They had a camel, cows, sheep and a elephant ... all made with the youth being the animal and some cardboard! Just so cool!!!!
There were bible verses each night with hand motions and Ashlyn helped a few times with this!
Crafts were a part of the week and I helped with this Thursday and Friday! The kids did a great job!
Each craft was themed with the story of Joseph. One night we decorated gingerbread men with coats of many colors! Then another night we made sacks with feed in each one!
Our June is flying by quickly! Ashlyn is all into rip sticking and wanted to go to the park for a bigger hill to ride down. They also tried to catch some frogs.
We have zucchini in the garden and so the kids made each a loaf of their own zucchini bread.
I went out to the garden to see what they were doing the other day and they were painting rocks for our plants. Also, someone thought the cabbage needed some paint.
I planted some wild flowers last year in the garden area and these poppies are blooming from those seeds last year. So pretty!
More food art ... Ashlyn made a heart shape bird seed for the birds and I made more sourdough.
Second batch of lavender syrup .... we love it with lemonade!
Still reading this book now to the Littles. We had a stall from Bible School last week but I'm ready to dig into this book again! It's a good read but it's going to be hard to beat Summer of the Monkeys! We loved that book! We got the movie from the library and watched it twice!
We even got the movie set up outside last night! I've always wanted to do an outdoor movie here at home with the kids and now we did! I think we will do this more often!
This has been a beautiful month of June! The weather had us visiting the pool often! We really enjoyed Saturday when we went to Bird in Hand Bake Shop for their 50th anniversary celebration! Good food and pony rides and bounce house.
