Fun Weekend

We had a fabulous holiday weekend spending time together!  It was like a preview of what this summer will be like.  Jay and I worked on stuff outside and the kids just played really hard outside everyday.

Saturday evening we had another family over for dinner.  The kids loved playing together and we enjoyed hanging out with other adults.  Jay and I joke we need to have people over for dinner every weekend because the kids always have better table manners and eat more whenever there are more people at the table! It was a wonderfully relaxing time together with friends. 

Sunday we went to church and then headed to Scott's Strawberry Farm in Moneta.  We went there last year, but this year I would say we had much more "help" picking by the kids.  Hopefully each year their participating will continue to increase. 

Before we got out of the car we loaded everyone up with sunscreen and hats.  The rule was if you took off your hat you had to go back to car.  So far they are both doing really well keeping their hats on and they don't mind the sunscreen.  They may be extremely pasty white right now, but they will have beautiful, healthy skin when they are 50!

There were much more people around this year picking strawberries.  The kids loved walking up and down the row to find the red ones.

Trey helped much more this year and really got into finding bright red strawberries.

Charlotte was so proud of every strawberry she picked.  I am loving that pink hat!

She also nominated herself as the keeper of  the bucket and she had to be the one to move it down the row. 

Taste testing

Love these two so much!

Charlotte had to reach really hard to get the perfect one!

This is right before Trey spit out the strawberry.  Apparently he prefers his to be chilled from the refrigerator, not hot from the sun.

He found the best one! I didn't think about him being in light khaki shorts until we arrived.  Luckily he stayed clean and juice-free the whole time so I didn't have to worry about stains!

Now I have 2 boxes full of strawberries on my counter to take care of and put away.  I am thinking about freezing some, making strawberry pound cake, strawberry jam, strawberry smoothie pops, and just enjoying some fresh strawberries!