Summer Vacation to UT part 1

"Dat kitty, he wuves me!"

That's a cute slip 'n slide Fail by cousin D

Mmmm pie!

Ahh, the perils of walking around barefoot.

4th of July

...and the weekend before at the splash park

Family 5k

Parade

BBQ (complete with homemade rootbeer!)

Sprinklers

Sadly, our day did not end in fireworks, they were cancelled this year due to the extreme fire danger. :(

However, Mother Nature did her best to make up for it the very next evening.

Cake Pops...

...are a lot harder to make than they look.

They're simple. I mean, it's a box mix and store-bought frosting-- how hard could it be?  Mix those together and roll into balls and refrigerate, (or even freeze -which I eventually ended up doing). Then melt some almond bark or candy coating, dip your stick into it and poke it into the  balls, and then dip the balls --or maybe I should have dipped the balls and then poked them with the stick.  Either way, it was really hard to keep the balls on the sticks.  They kept poking all the way through and sliding down the sticks.  It was a mess.  Oh yeah, and don't overheat your coating, it will dry out and be useless.  Well a tasty kind of useless anyway. :)

And although they're super yummy, I don't know that I'll try making them again.