Blueberry Picking

We loved having Jenna visit us last month! On our way to drop her off at the airport, we brought her with us to pick blueberries at Kuras Berry Farm.

Too bad Jenna couldn't bring all her blueberries with her, but I think she still got a bag full on the plane.

We also met up with some of Mariah's BFFs.

(Adrienne, this picture of Mariah totally reminds me of Megan.) 

Christina and Alarie showed up in matching outfits- I love when that happens. Smart people thought ahead and wore black to hide berry stains. Noted for next time.

Mariah was so concerned that Tyson wasn't actually collecting any berries (he was too busy eating them) so she kept taking handfuls out of her bucket to give to him.

 

We came home with about 10 pounds of blueberries. That's a lot of blueberries. A LOT of them were gobbled up in the first few days. After making blueberry muffins and blueberry pancakes, with the leftovers I froze a bunch, then was inspired to make jam. I made it with just blueberries, a little lemon juice, some pure maple syrup and honey. Then I canned for the first time ever! To paraphrase my sister Rebecca, I was feeling more Mormon by the minute ;)

Cape Cod pt. 2 + Boston

Our last beach day there was cold and rainy! We mostly sat huddled under blankets under the beach umbrella and the guys played football.

We decided to ditch the beach and head to Provincetown, which is on the tippiest tippy point of the cape. It is the cutest town, with lots of window shopping and friendly people. It was pouring rain, and we got lost on our way to lunch so we got to see the whollleee town, Mariah had the best seat I think.

Isn't this beach cottage the cutest? There were hydrangeas everywhere.


We got a girls afternoon one day so we went and walked around Chatham



That evening the dads met us with the kids and we went to the dock to see all the fish being brought in. This sounded fun in theory, but it was actually really disgusting.



Mariah talked for days about wanting to see more fish go down the big slide.



It was all good though because then we got to eat the freshest seafood everrrr, more lobster rolls for me.

Stopped by a lighthouse on the way back. So many family pictures this weekend!

So beautiful here!

On the drive home after church, we decided to stop in Boston with the Jennings for dinner and cannolis.

 This time we knew not to mess around and we went right to Maria's.

The kids stretched their legs on the playground by the harbor for a little bit before the rest of the drive home.

Cape Cod pt. 1

We spent a long weekend in Cape Cod (or "The Cape" as the locals call it ;) We left on Thursday afternoon and arrived that evening at the quaintest little beach cottage in Orleans that we rented out with 3 other friends' families.  On Friday we spent the first half of the day at Skaket Beach which had endless sandbars and shallow bay water and good times.

 Kisses for friends

 "Open wiiiiide!"

We call this "stinker face." She'll do it on command too.

 Pouty little princess. I don't even remember what she was upset over but she stopped and got it all out of her system.

 Clams!

 And I was there too.