Strawberry Picking

Today a group of my friends met at a local farm and we took all of our kids strawberry picking. It was quite the adventure! With my 3, it's like herding cats trying to get them to stay together, and follow along. Needless to say, I was exhausted afterwards. But we had a lot of fun, and the kids loved it.


I don't know if we ate more, squashed more tromping through the fields, or actually picked more strawberries that we took home. =)

Emily - go figure - was the only one that really took to eating the strawberries off the plants. By the end of the day, she was covered in juice... and mud. We had torrential thunderstorms yesterday, so all the farm roads were huge mud puddles. Try keeping 3 kids out of those!?!


Since it's a real farm, there are lots of animals. Here the kids decided to share all the strawberries we just worked so hard to pick with the local goats. Thanks guys!


There's a 4-H center, and the kids were given food (not our precious strawberries) to feed the sheep.

Emily loved it! She had the sheep nibbling on her fingers. Zach wasn't that in to it.

By the end, all 3 kids were filthy! Good thing I filled the baby pool up before we left home. When we got back, they were stripped in the driveway and got to "clean up" in the pool while I made lunch.