Thankful Thursday

Last week I wasn't thankful apparently because I forgot to post.  It wasn't true, but it is summer time and the days just slip by and I forget what day of the week it is with all the fun we are having.

Today I am thankful for the fun day we spent together last Friday as a family.  We went on an adventure to pick strawberries at a pick your own farm 40 minutes south of us.  Just love getting strawberries - sweet, juicy and delicious - for only $1.70 a quart.  Each quart was over a pound so it was a great savings.  However, after having done it once, I appreciate the novelty of going to the store to get them a little better.  The kids did great and Ruby only discovered that they were food towards the end when she bit into one and so we only had to fend her off eating them the last few minutes.  We made plenty of delicious freezer jam and frozen whole strawberries for smoothies. 

The only picture we took of our whole family.  Lol - yes that is an unfortunate location for a shadow on me. But shadow it is!

 Amish people are cool.  Makes me want to bust out in song singing Amish Paradise!

After our adventure to the strawberry patch we went to Amish country a bit more south.  It was fun to go to the Amish cheese store and get lots of free tastes and come home with fun cheese varieties.  We saw lots of Amish in their buggies as we got lost for a while in the back farm roads.  We also went to an Amish store with lots of fun wood toys and other products.  It was an eventful day and I am thankful that I got to spend it with my family.