Farm Fun

I mentioned here that we joined a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) this past spring. It was a real treat for us (all though turned out to not be worth the money). Greg had a Graduate Assistant job last year which meant we had some extra cash flow! One of the benefits of our CSA was a "you pick option". Basically, every week you could go to the farm and pick a designated fruit/vegetable for free. I love doing "pick things" with the kids, unfortunately the farm was a little to far away to make this worth our time and our gas money!! In mid May we did make it out the farm to pick strawberries. Look at the background in the picture below! It was a beautiful place.

The boys on the tractor ready to go out to the field to start picking!

Greg ~ not too many pictures of him these days....must take more!

Joel with one of our first berries!

We got ourselves a ton of strawberries! I'm pretty sure this cost us upwards of $40!!

Abby wouldn't turn around for the picture because she was too busy doing this:

But who could blame her! They were delicious!

Look at that chubby little finger in that fat strawberry, *love*!

The boys especially loved this puddle as we waited for the tractor to come back and get us. What you can't see is that there were a ton of other prissy Moms there who wouldn't let their children toss pebbles into the water. You can see one little boy in the top left who was DYING to play. I'm sure they are the same Mom's who don't allow guns in their house, PUH-LEASE, let boys be boys. They weren't hurting anything!

Crazy story....when we got back on the tractor one of the other ladies noticed Greg's Western Kentucky University T-shirt and we struck up a conversation about our alma mater. Turns out she and I both went to the same high school in Louisville (all though about six years apart). What a crazy small world!!

After picking our berries, we explored the rest of the farm. The kids had a great time playing in this huge bin of corn. Abby especially loved having corn dumped on her head.

In November, the army will be sending us a list of our possible assignments. I am anxious about what the next step will be in our army career. On one hand it might be nice to stay here. We have an awesome church and great friends, plus it wouldn't hurt us to pay off our home loan a little more! On the other hand, I would sure love to be closer to the "country". I'm dying for my kids to have more land to run, play, skip and ride bikes on. Ahhhh.....that sounds perfect!!

OOOOH and in case your wondering. We had a strawberry feast with all those berries. We ate them fresh but I used most of them to make freezer jam using this recipe. I ended up with about five quarts of jam which we shared with neighbors and friends who said it was AMAZING!! We still have two quarts in the freezer that I can't wait to get out when family comes at Christmas!!! YUM!!!