Strawberry Picking

Saturday June 5th Ryan and I took the kids to pick strawberries!! It was so fun! I was really excited cause I had never done this. The kids were pretty excited about it. Kaitlyn asked everyday if we could go again. She LOVED it!

The kids with their baskets running to the strawberries!



Picking the strawberries actually went really well. Kaitlyn picked the most and did it all by herself! Em's had to go potty so she missed out on a lot of it, but she was fine with that because there was mud (gasp!). She's such a princess, I love it. And Logan LOVED picking them too! If I would just grab em and put them in his bucket he would get upset. HE wanted to do the picking. So cute. All I had to do was point them out and he would pick them.








Logan would NOT let anyone hold his bucket! Those were his strawberries! Such a big boy, so cute!



We were only there all of 45 mins before we decided that was good. Logan and Em were ready to leave but Kaitlyn wanted to stay all day! We pick 9 1/2 lbs of strawberries! While I was checking out the kids got to sit on the huge rocking chair.




Definitely a good and fun experience. I'm glad we got to go!
We told our friends how fun and easy it was so a few of us got together on the next Friday and went picking again! This was the last day of picking (strawberry season is SHORT!) so there weren't as many good ones, but we still had a good time and got lots of strawberries. I didn't stay very long. It was supper hot and bending and being way pregos don't go so well together. The kids were happy to go again and we got to get a few more strawberries. Which was good cause we ate all the other ones!



I made strawberry freezer jam with some of the strawberries!!! It was my first time and it was SOO yummy! We've been eating pb&j's a lot more since then and it's almost all gone already!

Texas!

In May we went to TEXAS!!! We went on a WHIRLWIND trip. We left Thursday night drove ALL night, got there Friday morning and only stayed until early Monday morning when we had to leave again. We did however make the best of the time there! It was a while ago that we went that I can't even remember all that we got to do. There was lots of playing with cousins and staying up late talking. I did manage to remember to take some pictures. All of two. Why do I never remember while we're down there? Must be having too much fun! One of the fun things we got to do while we were down there is go ice skating!! None of our kids had been before. Emily was the first to try it, and she was very excited about it. Poor girl though, she just couldn't keep her feet under her, so Ryan had to hold all her wait and try to get her to keep her feet under her. They went around a few times, but she tired out pretty quickly and I think Ryan was pretty glad about that! We FINALLY convinced Kaitlyn to give it a try. She didn't even make it a 1/4 of the way around before she absolutely REFUSED to go any further and we turned around and took her back. Both girls happily played with grandma in the bleachers! I really wanted to get a picture of the girls ice skating, but I was too worried about helping them to pull out a camera. I did manage to get a picture of Ryan and he took one of me. I wanted proof that I ice skated 7 months pregnant! It was fun, but I took it supper careful to make sure I didn't fall and hurt the baby!




We had such a blast with both families. It was so hard to leave when it was time to go. But the best news, when we got home there were no catastrophes!! Our house was just as we left it. No flooding!!