strawberry fields forever.....birthing traditions..

Every spring my daughter and I go strawberry picking..it seems like every year or so , we add another little boy to the outing.....I love digital photos because they are so easy to sort through on the computer..here is what I found this morning....traditions are made just one thing at a time and before you know it ..it has become a tradition...I think that traditions are important..they give history to a family and something to make a memory and to pass it on to the next generation...
so, I thought I would show you how to get from this

to this

in about 4 years time...enjoy our trips to the strawberry farm..

 Here is Will from the time we started going until this year....

this is Mac's first trip..in the backpack...

and this year..he is loving the strawberries..

and we added another one this year...Marshall and well, you can see by the picture..he had fun....

so another family tradition is made... me, my daughter and three little boys..some buckets and some strawberries and a LOT of fun....a good time was had by all...

I am so glad you came along with us to pick strawberries...thank you for reading ...until next time...make your day a good one..

Random thoughts

Here is our official birthday picture for 2011...Bryan, Me, Mike...we have now all celebrated our birthdays with an awesome cake...and a fun get together...lots of children running around and eating many, many cupcakes.

Bryan, me, Mike

Spanish Lemon cake

After the planning from last week and the putting away of all the party things and cleaning up..I was a little tired but I love doing it and will do it again as soon as there is an occasion....or just a random day to get together....

That is like my mind this morning...just so very random that I can hardly keep up with myself....it is 10 a.m. and I have walked the yard with the dogs, planned a new bed for irises, checked on the garden, taken something from the freezer for supper..decided to pick the garden..lettuce and broccoli and have that for supper with grilled chicken....gone to the barn and counted the bags of potting soil...decided this is the day for planting seeds...checked to see if Roundup worked where I sprayed last week. found a box in the barn filled with pink melmac dishes that I bought several years ago for Bryan's daughter to play with..got the bowls..24 of them and little plates and brought them inside to wash and have a little tea party with them....random, I tell you....complete randomness today....then decided to just sit down and write a blog...about all of this running through my mind..maybe I will get my camera and take some new pictures and then get out the potting soil and pots and seeds and finally start them..then go to Thyme After Thyme and buy a tomato plant or two and plant them in the garden..there...how is that for a totally random day?? maybe tomorrow will be more organized, but I seriously doubt it...it is spring and there are a million things to do...and I will think about the farmers and their contribution to us all the while that I am doing this..
thank you for reading my ramblings this morning...