When life gives you lemons...

I made lemon bars, lemon tarts, lemonade, lemon curd, lemon cookies, lemon poppyseed cake, lemon rolls, lemon parmesan fish and that's just the start!

We picked 400 lemons off of our tree and I've managed to give 150 away. This picture is how many we have left on the tree. I've gone from choosing recipes that look yummy to trying to find recipes that use up the most lemons (I'm sorry but 1 T. lemon juice only uses one lemon!) The other problem is that most lemon things are desserts. I tell you this is not a good situation for somebody trying NOT to gain 70 pounds.

I did discover that it is possible to can lemon curd so as soon as I borrow a canner (thanks for living so far away Amy!) I can really make a dent in my lemon supply. Now I only have one more problem...

What can I do with 400 oranges???

5 peas in my pod

I just wanted to share how excited I am that we will be adding one more to our family in July! We will find out in 3 weeks whether it is a boy or a girl (although Joseph is lobbying to wait and see). It took us a lot longer than we had originally planned but I am finally believing that it's real. Now I just have to convice Isaac that he is a big boy and not a baby anymore.