Saturday, June 6, 2015

First Week of Summer!

 We survived our first week of summer...and actually had some fun, too! The kiddos had to come with me on a few cleaning jobs the first part of this week but they were mostly good sports about it and I tried to balance it out with fun stuff.


Bright and early Wednesday morning, we went strawberry picking! We broke the silence of the clearly serious strawberry pickers with our happy chatter and exclamations over the beautiful red strawberries we found!

And the kiddos all got to try one. Have to make sure they're good!


Samuel's strawberry blends in!

My niece ate more strawberries than she put in the box:)


Zakkai made it a goal to find the biggest strawberries he could!


                  Gosh, aren't they beautiful??! They blow store strawberries out of the water!



Had to do something with the 11 pounds of strawberries! I made some Strawberry Honey Chia Seed Jam with a lot of it and made this absolutely delicious strawberry pie and some strawberry lemon muffins today! The rest I froze for smoothies:)


Then after strawberry picking we met one of my best friends and her girls at a splash park!


Braving the chilly weather;) It was in the mid-60s but none of the kiddos cared! They stripped down and ran into the water. They were a little chilly but stayed active so they had fun!


The boys getting dumped on by a bucket of water:)



 We stayed there for a few hours, eating lunch, playing in the water and on the playground next to it. Then on our way out, the kids wanted to stand on the park amphitheater stage and put on a little show:) Eliana just twirled and had so much fun. I love her serious face!





Chilly!!



Yesterday, I packed up a picnic lunch and we hung out at the park for awhile, after running a few errands. It was a beautiful day! Look how big she's getting!


She loves to climb!

All 3 kiddos loved this climbing thing (whatever it's called!) and spent a long time trying to master it;)


Samuel was so determined to figure out how to get around it.



He worked for so long but finally had to give up. Maybe next time!


Eliana, thoroughly enjoying her peanut butter and homemade jelly sandwich:)


Silly girl!

Then last night, we got to go on a date!! My mom came to pick up the kids and we headed out on our first date since Feb! It was much needed time, especially with all the busyness these days. We had a really good time. We went to our new favorite restaurant "Amul India" where we practically groaned with pleasure while we ate. Seriously. Amazing food.

Then we picked out a new paint-by-number to start! We so loved doing the one last spring and finally got a frame for it to hang it up! We spent the last part of our date getting ice cream and taking a long walk in the park until the thunderstorm started. It was refreshing (the date, not the storm!) and just what we needed!

A great first week of summer!

2 comments:

Aunt terri said...

Yummy looking pie! I want to make one now and eat it! We do not have strawberries like those here in Texas.

grandma said...

Those strawberries were so good..We just had strawberry shortcake with ours..Have to go today and see if we can find some more..Loved hearing you are doing paint by numbers..Grandpa would be so tickled..He is so good at it..Love to see kiddos so happy..I do get to see them some when you come to clean..So happy..Love you all..

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