24th of July Celebration

The pie: cream cheese, cool whip, sweetened condensed milk, orange juice, mandarin oranges, and a touch of semi-sweet chocolate--mmmm! (I tried a new recipe--just because it sounded good to me.)The competition: berry, apple, pecan, key lime (made by Eric West), pumpkin pies...

The judges...

And I didn't win. The key lime pie did. It was good! But the pies were a great part of the annual picnic with Waterloo Ward and Waverly Branch celebrating with us. The pies were the dessert at the end of the potluck.
The celebration was held at a new city park in downtown Cedar Falls, just on the other side of the river. The bike path goes right by, and that brought back many memories of family bike rides to George Wyth park.

It's good to catch up with people from the other units--Doug & Lucinda Johnson are home for a couple of weeks from their assignment in India, the Oesterle's have a brand-new granddaughter, the Shaw's from Waverly are expecting a baby (she's 43 and for some reason sought me out to ask some questions. Hmmm, I wonder why?)

The girls got to fiddle, play baseball, and participate in a mock barn raising (in miniature). A nice breeze kept the heat bearable, so it was a great time.