Saturday, August 22, 2009

Blackberries

We went to Eckert's today and had so much fun! It's this place in Illinois where you can go and pick fruit and pay by the pound. Unfortunately we just missed the peaches but we did get some delicious blackberries!! It was really fun.
I was really surprised when I looked down at my hands after only picking a few berries and they were stained red. Throughout the day, they just kept getting darker and darker. Then I look over at my husband and his hands were glistening clean!! I couldn't quite figure out how he became such and expert berry picker. Who knows, maybe this is a good career for him. His bucket had the most perfect round blackberries while mine were kind of falling apart and such. I guess he's really got a knack for it.
We're going to make homemade ice-cream tonight with the berries, blackberry jam, and freeze some for smoothies. It was really fun. We're really glad we went.

We just had to eat some! They were delicious.

3 comments:

Alisa said...

Hi! You guys are so cute! I love the last picture of you guys, I think it's a great one! Diana, is your hair getting long? It looks long to me! Hope you guys are doing well! What a fun activity! And you can't beat homemade ice cream and fresh hand picked berries!

Carolyn said...

How fun! I love homemade jam and smoothies and all those good things you mentioned. Good for you guys!

Ben, Ashley, and Nate said...

What cute pictures! You guys are just about the cutest family ever! We wish we could have got to know you guys more; I know we would have had so much fun. We hope we can be as sweet of parents as you guys are! Glad you're having such a great time!