Fresh, homemade lemonade

Sometimes Sydney comes up with ideas, out of nowhere, and does not let them rest until they are complete.  This weekend the idea was to make lemonade.  She knows our neighbor has a lemonade tree, and so she put together her own special recipe:

So when we saw our neighbor out front, Sydney and Jason went and politely asked for a few lemons.  Little did they realize how many lemons they would be given!

And, these lemons were not your average lemons, they were really, really BIG lemons!

Sydney declared this one the biggest:

Along with big lemons, apparently comes very thick skin, which means lots of work to squeeze!  Jason worked hard to get a cup of lemon juice out of those lemons.

And, that is where Sydney lost a bit of her patience.  She joined her sister for some water painting while Daddy slaved away (little sister has been slightly obsessed with water painting lately).

But then, she was happy to join back in when the lemonade was ready!  She sipped fresh lemonade while reading her book.

We still have a counter full of nice, fresh, HUGE lemons...if anyone needs any!