Strawberry Time!

I took the boys to a local farm yesterday to pick strawberries. It was the first day since Memorial Day that it hasn't rained and we were out of the house before 9am! The plants were loaded with strawberries. I couldn't believe how many ripe berries there were. We ended up with 12 pounds of strawberries!

Sam was my best picker. He is practically a little migrant worker. He never stopped to eat any strawberries until his basket was full either. He only picked the really red berries that didn't have marks on them.

Wyatt and Jonah ate more than they picked and kept knocking their baskets over by accident. They picked white, green, and red berries too. I had to do some major purging of their berries before we took the wagon down to weigh our baskets. Afterwards Wyatt told me that he doesn't want to eat berries that we buy at the store any more because he only wants to eat the kind that we pick ourselves since they taste so much better.

Shane ate Teddy Grahams and watched us all pick while he sat in his stroller. He really enjoyed the wagon ride up to the strawberry patch and jabbered away and pointed at everything we passed like a little tour guide. He didn't seem to like the taste of the fresh picked strawberries though and kept throwing them on the ground. Maybe it is an acquired taste?

Now I am scouring through strawberry recipes in my free time. I bought canning supplies so that I can make some strawberry-rhubarb preserves this weekend. I need to use up these berries before they go bad!

Everybody had a good time because today the kids wanted to go back strawberry picking again! I told them that we would have to wait a few days before we hit the strawberry patch again. Mommy's got some canning to do first!