Strawberries!!

Today, we headed out to bring Hayden and Lilly to their week-long gymnastics camp (just in the mornings) bright and early to beat the heat and went with Grace and Caleb to meet a friend and her kids to pick strawberries.  Either we were too late, too early, or there just aren't many strawberries growing this year, but there weren't many on the plants to choose from.  Caleb was a trooper (probably because he was continuously eating for about 2 hours straight).  Grace wasn't a fan of the heat/sun and was fussy, but after deciding to sit down and feed her in the middle of the strawberry patch, she was a happy baby.  We finally gave up picking after about 2 hours since we were all sweaty and headed for the Harvest House to just buy a flat of strawberries.  I ended up getting a half flat of raspberries too, so all in all it was a productive day....lots of freezer jam and a pie...and about 6 poopy Caleb diapers!!

Side note:  You can kinda of see a gold crown in the jam picture - that is from the gymnastics camp.  Mark went to pick the kids up and said out of all the kids, Lilly won "camper of the day"!  She got a crown and certificate and they picked her up and threw her into the foam pit!  She thought it was GREAT!!  We were pretty proud.  Hayden also learned a lesson in being proud of his sister even though he didn't win ;)  He didn't quite understand why he didn't win if he followed all the rules too (which I'm sure he did because he is the kind of kid who WILL NOT stray from the rules).  Oh well, just another life lesson...we don't always win!