Trip the Bakersfield

We went to Bakersfield over the three-day weekend and had a lot of fun! We didn't take many pictures...ha ha...I always forget to pull out my camera. But we enjoyed spending time with Grandpa and Grandma Hawley! We even picked quite a few lemons off their lemon tree and made delicious homemade lemonade!! Thanks for letting us come!!

Here is The Perfect Lemonade Recipe:

Ingredients
1 cup sugar (can reduce to 3/4 cup)
1 cup water (for the simple syrup)
1 cup lemon juice
3 to 4 cups cold water (to dilute)

Method
1 Make simple syrup by heating the sugar and water in a small saucepan until the sugar is dissolved completely.

2 While the sugar is dissolving, use a juicer to extract the juice from 4 to 6 lemons, enough for one cup of juice.

3 Add the juice and the sugar water to a pitcher. Add 3 to 4 cups of cold water, more or less to the desired strength. Refrigerate 30 to 40 minutes. If the lemonade is a little sweet for your taste, add a little more straight lemon juice to it.

Serve with ice, sliced lemons.
Serves 6.

We went to the Verizon store to get new phones...while we were there...BOTH girls fell asleep. Ha ha.!!