The Cookie of the Summer: S'more Cookies

This spring, our youngest daughter had a very specific request for her school birthday treat: S'mores Cookies. So, we started searching for recipes online and in cookbooks that looked soft, chewy and packed with all of the classic s'more flavors. We found a recipe that looked good and sent them off to school and hoped for the best. The verdict? Her classmates loved them. Her teachers loved them. And our family absolutely fell in love with them.

In fact, we loved them so much that one of our other daughters decided these were the cookies she wanted to bring to our County Fair next week. Since then, we've baked batch after batch, tweaking little things here and there until we've landed on what we think is the perfect version!

Knee High by the 4th of July

Every Fourth of July, our family has a tradition of taking our annual "Knee High by the Fourth of July" photo in one of our cornfields. It's a fun chance to see how much the corn has grown, and capture how much our #1 crop has grown - our kids, from year to year. These photos help us document the story of another growing season, another year of memories, and another Independence Day spent right here on our Iowa farm.