Spring Training and BBQ

Matt's friend, Tommy and his dad came down to AZ for a pretty awesome getaway. They spent time at Spring Training games and on the golf course. We met up with them for dinner on Friday night. Sunday we met them for a Royals game. It was a beautiful day for baseball!

We got to see Alex Gordon play a few innings!

On his first pitch, he hit a home run!

We enjoyed their company while we had it. Hopefully they had fun too!

Last weekend Matt and I took all our fruit off the trees. 

Then we juiced ALL of it!

Here I thought I was almost done!

And I got another 50+ oz.! In total we have over 200 oz. (everything you see, plus an extra 50 oz. in ice cube trays).

Matt squeezed the tangelos which we also have plenty of juice from that too! ;)

Saturday night we headed to the Chandler BBQ Festival with some friends. 

We went last year and pretty much missed all of the food. This year we got there early enough to enjoy some delicious BBQ! Granger Smith was the headliner and did a great job!

And I will leave you with an embarrassing story from Monday. I stopped to go to the bathroom around 2 in the afternoon. When I looked in the mirror I noticed my earrings didn't seem to match. Sure enough, they didn't!! I sent this picture to my friend Lauren and she couldn't stop laughing!

I have two pairs of ivory earrings that I bought from different stores. Different colors, different sizes, and slightly different shapes. What a case of the Mondays!!

Citrus juicing

Matt's cousins that live in Mesa have 5 fruit trees in their backyard. A couple months ago we went over and picked a bunch of fruit. Last week we finally ran out of the fruit we picked. It just so happened they were ready to pick the rest of the fruit off the trees. We went over to help them pick all their fruit. We pulled at least 80 grapefruit and a bunch of oranges and tangelos as well. 80 grapefruit goes a long ways. We took a few bags and left the rest for them. Even though we love grapefruit, we had enough to last us until September. We decided since we love the way it tastes we should drink it, too! So after church we headed over to my grandparents to borrow their juicer.

Matt sliced the fruit and I juiced.

We filled the 2 quart pitcher. Time to upgrade to the gallon!

We quadruple strained it. There was still some leftover pulp, but it was much better than it would have been without our intense straining effort.  

Here is what our efforts produced. That is straight grapefruit juice in there! We added some water and a little Splenda and had over a gallon. We have been drinking it sparingly and it has lasted us a week already. If I let Matt drink as much as he wanted, it would have been gone on Monday night. We also made some orange/tangelo juice which was a nice change to my breakfast routine this past week. Can't wait until next citrus season! Thanks for reading :)