This Is How We Do The 4th

We're so happy to have Pop & Mimi visiting for our 4th of July weekend.

These boys are spoiled with the best of the best. <3

Off to church on Sunday in our patriotic colours.

Then looking forward to our small group and some church friends coming over for smoked BBQ.

And of course, a few games of Mafia.

Our Monday began with red, white, and blue breakfast scones.

Thank you, Pioneer Woman!

After an early morning wake up to catch todays Tour de France stage.

 Then off to the Fallon 4th of July Parade.

Happy Independence  Day!

Pie Time

On Saturday I was at Costco and in a hurry.

Never a good combination!

Anyway, when I got home and put all of my groceries away, I found that the 2lbs of strawberries I picked up were a little more ripe than overripe.

Enter - 

My most recent Food Network Magazine and it's strawberry recipes.

Strawberry Crumble Pie

First the crust.

I substituted cold butter for the vegetable shortening.

 The crust recipe was nice and generous, so I didn't have the usual struggle of trying to stretch just a little bit more out of the pastry dough.

Then the crumble topping.

All together.

And baked!

The biggest struggle was waiting the prescribed 4 hours for it to cool completely.

But it paid off, because the strawberry juice didn't run all over the place.

I had an eager first taste tester.

And then after he was in bed, we warmed it up again with vanilla ice cream.

It's a good thing too, 

because I needed a little pick me up after my littlest monkey decided to pull my 

KitchenAid mixer down and break my beautiful glass mixing bowl.

But that's everyday life. 

It's not all tasty pies. :)