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Hello everyone! I hope you all had a happy fourth of July last week! We sure did! My mother in law came to town to celebrate with us. It was fun to see our little BP playing with the grandma she doesn't get to see as much (since she lives out of state) and making special memories together!

Well of course, as we do, we had a party for the Fourth of July! We are the family with the pool, so it's kind of a necessity. We had a rather eclectic mix of people this year! Family, extended family, friends we consider family, and new neighbors who we hope will become friends! It was a great day!

Well a few days before the fourth my husband had stopped at the grocery store and came home with an 8 pound pork butt. He wanted to make something with it. My response was, "I don't know how many people you think live here, but only three do, and one of them is a toddler." 

However, since he had to work on the Fourth and wouldn't be there to start grilling as early as I would have liked, I decided we would do BBQ pulled pork sandwiches!

I debated trying my hand at doing pulled pork in the my husband's smoker, but in the end I decided I would use my crock pot! I have done BBQ Pulled Pork in the crock pot numerous times in the past, and it is really a favorite of mine!

Doing BBQ Pulled Pork in the Crock pot is not as difficult as you might think! You can still get a tasty, moist pulled pork when it is cooked in the crock pot. There are many principles to smoking meat to make it juicy and melt in your mouth, and you can incorporate those principles with your crock pot.

The key to this bbq pulled pork in the crock pot is the infusion of apple cider vinegar, and cooking it low and slow (which is really what crock pots are for!)

That liquid inside the pork is going to soak into the meat while it cooks, leaving you with moist, flavorful pulled pork at the end!

The low temperature also makes sure your bbq pulled pork doesn't go dry, or get over cooked.

I highly recommend still using a meat thermometer and make sure your meat reaches an internal temperature of 202 degrees Fahrenheit. Then you can be sure it has cooked all the way through!

When I pulled this pork out of the crock pot it was literally falling apart! Which is just how I like it!

We used Kings Hawaiian rolls (and some home made because I was worried about running out) and topped our pulled pork with our favorite barbeque (bbq) sauce and some cole slaw!

​Happy cooking!

BBQ Pulled Pork in the Crock Pot

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     For Girl's Camp this year, our theme was "Shine in the World and Not of the World."  I talked about it more in this post.  I thought today I would share with you some of the cute handouts we made for different reasons at camp this year. 

6th Year Youth Leader's Handout

    The girls who have gone to camp for 6 years are going to be seniors in high school and they are actually leaders to the younger girls.  It will be their last year as a youth at camp, so we like to recognize them and give them a little gift at the end of camp.  I found the adorable light bulb shaped bottles on Oriental Trading. I used yellow Sixlets to fill the bulbs to make them look like they are shining.   Then, I used this adorable handout from Lil' Luna of this year's young women's theme as a card to go with the bottle of chocolate.  I printed it on card stock, cut it on my paper cutter to 4" x 6" and slid them into self sealing 4"x 6" bags.  They looked so great! 

Adult Leader Thank Yous:

• For the adult men who came up to camp to help, we gave them 6 packs of root beer with these cute "AWsome" tags from this site. 
• We gave the cabin moms lip balm with these cute tags! 
• We also gave them Simply Lemonade with tags and straws. The tags came from this site.
• For the cooks, who were amazing, we got them a little gift and needed a tag to attach.  I went to Avery and designed my own idea.  I love going to Avery because even if you don't have their labels or business cards, etc, you can still print your designs on card stock and cut them to the size you need.  That is what I did this time.  Since everyone at camp was a different country, the kitchen staff was France.  Avery had the cute Macaron clip art available, and I knew it was perfect. I am not an Avery affiliate (yet!) but I just love how simple their site is to use. 

I chose "cookie" as a name for the cooks, but these thank you cards would be perfect for anyone you want to give a little cookie treat to for any occasion.  If you want to copy them off to use, simply click the button below! 

    Be sure to check out our printables page for lots of other prints and subscribe with your email to have access to our subscribers only page! 

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     I keep thinking of 2 ways to begin this  Fun Friday post.  First, it is swimming season.  Can you have enough towels?  My kids used to drag them through the dirt while they were wet, so they needed to be washed daily.  Second, since it is that swimming time of year, I thought I would personalize some beach towels for my grandchildren, but my first idea didn't go so well. The idea that I am going to blog about today came about as I tried to fix my first mistake.  I came up with this fun project that your kids can help you with!  For Fun Friday, decorate some beach towels with fabric markers. 

    Recently I have been finding new ideas for using my heat gun.  One idea I saw was to to embossing on fabric.  One person said that she had personalized beach towels.  When I tried it, it wasn't as successful as I would have hoped. The embossing powder blew around on the fabric and that caused a mess around the letters on the towel. Since that happened, I have been racking my brain for a way to rescue the towel.  I got these towels for just $6.99 at Target, but I still didn't want to waste them!  Then, I saw my fabric markers and decided to try to outline the letters with a fabric marker.  What a difference!  

    Now I want to do towels for all of my grandchildren!  I had two more towels ready to go on hand, so I did them for my other 2 grandchildren who live in town.  I didn't do any glittery embossing powder, but I just used the fabric markers to decorate them.  You can use stencils or free hand them.  Make pictures or other decorations with the colorful markers.  If your kids are old enough, they can decorate their own towel.  

     I used Tulip brand fabric markers.  They come in a variety of tips and vibrant colors.  They also dried quickly so there was no wait time.  Emily was able to use hers at swimming lessons the same day.