Strawberry Picking

My friend Nicole and I took our boys strawberry picking! It was such fun. We took a ride on the ferry to get to the farm then we headed out with our baskets to start picking. We went early in the morning, but I still managed to get a sunburn (thankfully the boys didn't though.) It got up to 95 degrees that day! Picking strawberries with Bixente and Sebastien was a little harder than I'd imagined. For obvious reasons, the boys had never seen green strawberries before so they thought they were absolutely fascinating and I was hard pressed to keep them from completely filling our baskets with unripe berries. We did end up with 2 gallons of gorgeous, delicious, RED strawberries then Nicole treated us to homemade strawberry ice cream. It was heavenly! It was a great outing!

I LOVE Sebastien's expression in this one. Isn't he the cutest? He's such a strong little guy too carrying an entire gallon of strawberries in one hand all by himself!

Nicole and Luke picking. Luke did not wander or pick green strawberries. So, what's up with my boys?

Notice the juice dripping from Bixente's mouth and fingers. He couldn't resist trying a few strawberries rather than putting them in his basket. He just ran up and down the rows checking everything out.

Nicole kindly photographed me and the boys. There aren't very many pictures of me and them as I'm usually the photographer or the only one there with them. But this time I made it into the picture. Hooray!

Luke really, really wanted his picture taken with the tractor. And Bixente really, really wanted to climb on the tractor. But the sign they're standing in front of said "Keep off the farm equipment," but at least Luke got his picture!