Roommate Reunion, Yard Crawl, and Delicious Food: Part 3, Saturday Afternoon and Night

Our Saturday afternoon plan had been to head up to a local orchard for their Peach Festival, but because of the rain that came, we were only able to go and pick a few peaches and raspberries and missed most of the festivities.  We came home with a bag of delicious peaches and a small container of raspberries that were HARD earned and wonderful (it took 5 of us what seemed like FOREVER to just pick one small container).

For those of you who know Todd, you know he is always eager to use his deep fryer.  So, on Saturday night he was in hog heaven when he got to deep fry chicken and french fries for dinner.  What you might not know about Todd is that when he has the deep fryer out, he also has a philosophy of "throw anything you want in."  So we also experimented with some deep fried peaches (alright, though they would have been better if we had battered them first) and deep fried broccoli (yuck).

Inspired by the peaches, I decided to make Paula Deen's peach cobbler.  Sadly, I forgot to take pictures... but I followed the recipe exactly as it said to, and it turned out AMAZING (though it took much longer to bake than it said). 

We all had a really fun evening of talking, laughing, reminiscing, and eating delicious (though in NO way healthy) food! 

Overall, the whole weekend was really, really, really, wonderful.  It was so nice to get to see old friends.  On Sunday morning Todd even made breakfast for us all (his specialty: pancakes on the griddle) and it was a major blessing to have my mom there because she did a lot of cleaning that would have made the weekend way less fun and way more exhausting for me!  In the end, I think everyone had a great time.... and I know Claire has already put it on her calendar to do again next year! :)

Emily, Michael, Claire, Todd, Me

I realize this was a super long set of posts... but since it was one of the best things I did this summer, it seemed worth it! :)

Week 28 pregnancy update coming early this week... :)  Unless, of course, I'm too exhausted to do ANYTHING since we go back to work tomorrow... Goodbye summer....