Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts

Monday, July 30

peaches

We had a friend mention that she had been peach picking and that the season was really short so we didn't want to wait too long! We had just picked 5 lbs of blueberries 5 days before...but we had eaten them all so we were ready for some more fresh picked fruit. (We seriously love blueberries!

We headed to Wellwood Orchard, about 45 minutes from our house and spent the morning stuffing our faces...I mean baskets....with peaches!

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Look at this boy's chin!  These peaches were yummy and juicy!
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such a beautiful place!
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Clara loved the peaches!
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 There was also a little petting zoo with all sorts of bunnies, chickens, birds and peacocks.  The kids loved the little baby goats though. 
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but Clara HATED the chickens.  Even though she was safely in Ryan's arms, way up off the ground, when she saw a chicken she started crying!
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cute little kids
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love my brave Sawyer boy!
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Clara didn't mind the baby goat
  So now I have a big box of peaches ready to can tomorrow!  Who thinks I can do it?!?

Tuesday, July 24

Blueberries

We have a friend who works at a local farm here and there were some blueberries ready to go. They weren't opening to the public yet so the farmer offered for her to bring some friends to pick the ripe ones.  We got the VIP treatment and had the place to ourselves! These blueberries are SO yummy! And they are quite possibly my kid's favorite thing ever!
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Clara's first time eating blueberries!
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She loves them!
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I think....

What do you have for dinner after a morning spent picking blueberries?  Waffles with blueberries and cream! Yum!

Friday, June 22

Strawberry Picking

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Nothing tastes as good as a perfectly ripe strawberry! We had so much fun picking them as a family and we have been enjoying them every day since! And now the rest are safely in the freezer as delicious jam! I love summer!

Wednesday, September 7

Kate-less

Today, despite the rain, we met some friends at a local farm that grows apples, raspberries, blueberries and pumpkins. It was so fun to tromp around in the rain with the pretty scenery all around us and pick our own raspberries. Unfortunately we have had a lot of rain recently so a lot of the berries were moldy, but we found some good ones! They had red raspberries and some yellow Kiwi Golds, which were quite yummy. The blueberries were very picked over and the ones left weren't very ripe so we didn't get any. Sawyer was disappointed about that! But we did buy some apples and he ate one completely down to the core on the way home. Yum! We can't wait to go back and take Kate and Daddy with us and enjoy their corn maze, apple cider and pick some pumpkins! Sawyer is excited to show Kate our raspberries when she gets home but I'm wondering if I shouldn't let her know we do fun things while she's gone for a while...it might be hard to hear after your second day!
I only took pictures with my phone because I didn't want to have to try bring my camera in the rain
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After the farm I took Sawyer out to lunch for a little date. He is just such a funny boy and it is so fun to have him all alone. I don't know if this makes sense, but I feel like I SEE him more. At lunch he was jabbering on and on about something and I was just sitting there and looking at him and feeling like I hadn't SEEN him like that before. I don't know if it is because he would always jabber to Kate instead of me or if he kind of just let Kate be the jabberer and he was in the background or if having 2 I just was splitting my eyeball time and I actually just saw him less. Whatever it was, it is fun to see him now.
After we got home we sat down on the floor together and played some board games, just counting down the time until we go pick up Kate. Will we always be so anxious to go get her from school that we are counting down the minutes or is that just because its new? At any rate, 1 hour left to go....

Saturday, September 3

Blueberry picking

The Saturday after we got back to Vermont we decided to find a place to pick some blueberries. In the sun it was actually pretty hot as we walked around in the bushes but we enjoyed our pickings! We had blueberry pancakes, blueberry muffins and hand fulls of blueberries galore!

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