Strawberry Patch

I’ve been wanting to go to a strawberry patch for awhile now and we finally did it last week with some friends. We drove out to Marburger Orchards in Fredericksburg. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “Everything is bigger in Texas!”  well, not so for their strawberries haha. I’d been imagining picking these big lush strawberries…instead it took us 3 hours to pick 9 lbs of quite small ones. The friend that I went with just moved here from California too, so it wasn’t what she was used to.  We still had a great time though and the weather seriously couldn’t have been better, it was overcast and there was a nice breeze.

Looking for that perfect strawberry!Ahh, found it!

The kids loved running around in the rows and even ‘helped’ us pick a few green ones :)

Cute kiddos, happy we were finally done picking strawberriesDelicious!

We hadn’t got our fill for strawberries yet so we stopped at Costco and bought more on the way home!  The next day we made all kinds of yummy things with our 20lbs of strawberries; freezer jam, homemade ice cream, fruit leather, puree, dried strawberries, strawberry cupcakes and smoothies. Kennedy loved taste-testing the chocolate dipped strawberries

I’ve been on a cupcake making kick lately, so of course I had to try these since I had so many strawberries.

Feeding the Ducks

We went and fed the ducks and had a picnic with our good friends Allie and Kaylee before they left for their extended trip to D.C.  We’d never been to this park before so it was fun to go check it out.

The ducks were pretty ugly, but the girls loved feeding them!

I know these pictures are all very similar, but I just loved all their different facial expressions and had to post a few.  They are so silly together and have so much fun and these pictures show it!  Kennedy sure misses them and asks about them everyday!