Free Fruit and Fun Friends

Recently a friend in the ward showed me where some fruit trees are located around our housing complex. These fruit trees were apparently planted for the students to enjoy and we've been taking advantage of that recently. Our favorite are the apricot trees located by our church building. Derrick, Zach, and I walk over and Derrick climbs up the tree with a bag and goes to work. While holding Zach I catch the ones that fall and help catch the bag when Derrick needs to climb back done. Our favorite thing to do with the apricots is to make them in smoothies. We made up the recipe one night and we love it!

In case anyone is wondering, to make them we combine: fresh apricots, a serving-size container of strawberry yogurt, a scoop of strawberry ice cream, a few tablespoons of sugar, a tray of ice, a little milk until desired consistency, and a little bit of vanilla. Flavors and amounts can vary hence the very non-specific recipe.

On Sunday, Aug 10 (I've been meaning to post this for awhile) we had a game night with our neighbors the Slacks and with the Ross family. We made a batch of our apricot smoothie for it. The pictures show the apricots we picked and then Derrick drinking the smoothie with Ken and Kelsey Ross. (Not the most exciting pictures but that's the most we were motivated to take.)

The apricots with worms got rejected to the left bowl...the joys of free organic fruit

For the game night we had fun playing Boggle (my favorite game lately) and Acquire. Sadly the Slacks moved out the following Friday to go to grad school in Texas. We miss them already! Hopefully our new neighbors will be fun too...

The Slacks' baby Hyrum is only 1 year older than Zach and is huge compared to him. It's crazy how much kids can grow in a year.