Get ready for a photo overload. I couldn’t help myself from all the fun and beauty of today! We spent our sunny and warm afternoon kicking up dirt, covering our clothes in the pinkest strawberry juice and cooling down with freshly made ice cream + sorbet. We love spring and summer for all the local berry picking and May is always our favorite. We look forward to picking berries every year and this time the weather couldn’t have been more perfect.
Kensi is a pro now since we’ve been doing this for four years. She knows her way around the farm, skips down to the picking point and follows instruction to begin collecting strawberries while Mike and I catch up to her. She’s very particular about which strawberries she picks. It has to be ‘really red’ and no white at all. This year she struggled trying to get one berry and ended up pulling half the plant out. Whoops! We quietly tucked it back in and shuffled down our row to the next cluster of red berries.
Finn is such a particular little dude. He doesn’t like to get dirty and when pulling a few berries he worried he was going to hurt them. He had no problem kicking the dirt up as we moved down our strawberry row while pointing to every specific strawberry he wanted for his bucket, but insisted we help pick it for him. He ended up filling his bucket 3/4 full and was determined to carry it all the way back to the indoor nursery, that was until about half back on our walk.
Olivia is our most determined child yet. She constantly feels the need to keep up with Kensi and Finn. She chased after them as they ran to the strawberry fields all while dressed in her pink jelly shoes and sunglasses. Just before getting to our starting point Livie sat down in the dirt for a break. This dirt is not like Nebraska dirt. It’s a chalky sand, very light and coats everything it touches. Her legs were black before she picked her first strawberry. She didn’t collect too many berries in her bucket since she would stop and eat every two steps. Her clothes are pure evidence of her epic feast in the field.
We finished our trip just as we always do, with a trip to the freshly made ice cream window. The day was warm and the ice cream was perfect for the kids. Kensi chose fresh strawberry, Finn the always chocolate man, and Livie scored strawberry sorbet. What a great way to end the week and kick off the long waited weekend!
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