A Cherry Party

Today we had a yard sale.  I've been cleaning stuff out of the basement, trying to organize and rearrange with the end goal of finishing the basement (perhaps next year).  We didn't make a lot of money, but we did sell some things and the rest we hauled to DI which made me oh so happy.  Really, just having it out of the house and the garage was wonderful.  I'm trying to lighten up.

The children were very good about participating, in fact, Blythe had a whole table of little toys and things she was selling for 25 cents each.  She made about four dollars.  I have spent the past three days, since our return from our trip, making preparations, and the kids have been good about letting me work.  I promised them we could go swimming at Grandma Sue's as soon as the garage sale was finished, and so we all went over for a dip.  We took along our neighbors, Jarom, Sarah, and Sam Oyler.  It was cool and refreshing and fun to play in the water.

My mom has a cherry tree in her yard and all the kids wanted cherries.  They picked as we swam, but then as we were preparing to go, they wanted to pick some to take.  Mom got them two grocery bags and they picked and picked and picked until both were full.  Upon our return home, they informed us they were going to have a cherry party.  Preparations for said party were minimal and the activities fairly low key.  We washed all the fruit and set it out in a big bowl with a second bowl for pits and made black cherry Kool-Aid.  The kids got out white paper plates which they colored (cherry themed pictures), and they played Hi-Ho Cherry-O.  They ate the enormous bowl of cherries and Kent and I were certain they would be sick most of the evening, but their digestive systems seemed unscathed.  Voila!  A cherry party.

A sinkful of cherries.

Cherry Party Attendees

Blythe, Sarah, Jaroom, Sam, Brandt