I must admit, Christmas is the only holiday our family has solid traditions on. This year, while looking through Mary Jane’s Farm, a magazine gifted to me by my lovely friend, I got some ideas that I believe will be yearly traditions for us.
We learned from Mary Jane’s farm that the traditional shape of the pretzel represents Folded Arms…perfect for celebrating our Freedom to Worship in America…
…For the Fourth of July!
So for our big holiday….we made hard and soft pretzels Thursday night. Here is the assembly line for HARD pretzel nibbles.
Apparently, rolling pretzels is JUST so much FUN!!
Next, you par boil them for about 30 seconds for hard and longer for the soft ones, a step which Riley the Man did!
Friday night our church group had a camp out, Rawl enjoyed giving rides to others in a wagon and they made rocket launchers. Milly made friends so quickly running with the bug collecting possy, and Hazel was a perfect tag along. I snuck home at night time to actually….get some sleep while Riley held down the fort in the tent….they woke up at 5:00 a.m!!!
Saturday Rawl helped make the breakfast tattling that he knew how to use the cheese grater for the potatoes…and he does. After naps for everybody except mom who got sleep, and yummy Watermellon snacks in harmony with July Fourth, another family from our church invited us for a barbecue and firework watching. We made a red and blue berry icecream from Mary Jane again, to bring. Rawl was a blast watching his eyes grow ten times bigger with each firework. I sat in a puddle of sprite and thought my water had broke! ~ The can wasn ‘t tipped over or anything, but the puddle which doused my whole seat smelled spritey….phew!
Sunday morning we shaped our soft pretzels and ate our hard pretzels.
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H” is for Hazel!
“R” is for Rawl
….And “M” is for Milly!!!
Let me know if you are interested in the recipes, otherwise I won’t bother. Lots of fun, perfect for ONE time a year!!!!
Oh, I love you all. Thank you for the tour. Your home is beautiful. I love all your decorating touches-couch looks fantastic~most of all thanks for sharing, it helps so much! Love the pictures and the video of the kids.
love you, buka
how fun! I would love the recipes! I love soft pretzels, but never splurge to buy them…making them (though not now while it’s so hot would be great!)
Look at those girls with their growing out bangs! It makes Milly look so grown up!!!! I can’t believe it!
What a fun tradtion to begin, makes me hungry!