The Big Step

Jacob took the big step this weekend, graduation from high school. It makes us reflect on our own graduation, the hopes and dreams we carried from the event, and we're excited for Jake to make all his come true. Here's to ya, lad.

Getting ready to go

The graduation started on time, but there was a snafu with the order of the diplomas, so we took a break while they got them straight.

Once they were back in order, the event went off without a hitch.

About now is when the batteries in the camera went dead, so you'll have to take our word for it, it was a great time. We wish the class of 2015 all the best.
In non graduation related news, Kattie Grace had her last softball game of the season, Monday. Auburn has won all but one game this year, and most were won by the "slaughter rule". Monday was a double header against Giles. Knowing it would be a late night, we prepped a picnic dinner. We were the envy of all the softball families with fried salmon cakes on home made schoolhouse rolls.

Kattie Grace won both games, which was just gravy on our grits.
One day this past week was a washout, so Big Man took advantage of not being able to get outside, and whipped up a batch of pizza sauce and home made ketchup. It's not like we don't have 96 pints of canned tomatoes stored up or anything.

Fresh lemon basil, straight to the pot

Ketchup on the left, pizza on the right

And there was a big development on the dessert front, well, two actually. First, home made ice cream. We picked up a ice cream maker, and put it to good use.

Fresh ingredients

Vanilla first

Choco for Cupcake

Then, while we were moving stuff around in the freezer, we found two packs of rhubarb that we chopped up and froze last fall, along with a couple of bags of raspberries. So, we made a raspberry rhubarb pie.

This is how we make pie crust, no store bought. Ever

We have another bag of each, so we will be in sweets all week, with fresh rhubarb and strawberries coming in by next week. We're really excited.
We ended the week with wings.
K&K