Apricots

Our next door neighbor has a huge apricot tree in his front yard. We kept watching them get bigger and bigger and then riper and riper and they just stayed there, he would never come and pick them. So last week I knocked on his door and asked him about them and he said have all you want. I don't like apricots....what a shame. We were excited because we all love them. But that also meant that we had lots to do. Alot of them needed to be made into jam, but that also meant lots for us to eat. YUMMY!!! We also gave a ton of them away, only because Jeff went over board and we had too many. We made jam and it is yummy and now we have a ton of it. Plus it is the first time we have done it and it went really well. Addison was so cute, at first she thought they were balls. Once we got her to stop throwing them, she would help by putting them on my cutting board. She pretty much just moved her stool around the kitchen where she wanted to be. It was funny!! Parker really helped by putting apricots on our food dehydrator. It was a family event. And now we have a ton of jam for the future. We love our neighbor!!