Strawberry Pickin'

This was the second year of our strawberry picking tradition.  The kids loved picking and were totally in a picture mood this day.  They kept climbing up on the tractors and asking me to take their pictures.  I just love their smiles and the special times we have together.  

ready to pick!  

They both loved taste testing the strawberries too..isn't that one of the best parts?!  At one point during the morning, Isaac handed me his basket and said here...can you just hand me the ones that are good for eating?!  :)  

juicy, fresh, and delicious!  

We went with my friend, Nita and her cuties. All three of them have great smiles!!  

We took our strawberries home and made strawberry freezer jam, fruit salad, smoothies and strawberry pancakes.  What a delicious treat!  This is the freezer jam recipe we use.  It turned out yummy!  Next time, I would like to try this sugar free one....I didn't have any apple juice handy and wanted to make the jam when I had the chance..so maybe next time ;)

Pumpkin Carving

We had so much fun carving pumpkins together.  Our trick or treating at our new house was early, so pumpkin carving was too...we were glad to have nice warm weather to enjoy!  

Hannah was so excited...here are some of her brainstorming sketches (including a picture of the Holy Bible).  

It was so nice outside that we were able to take the messiness to our back patio :)

 Hannah wanted a Hello Kitty pumpkin, and Isaac wanted Cookie Monster...good thing their Daddy is an artist :)  

 We sorted and cleaned pumpkin seeds as we pulled them out.  We dried them and roasted them.  This is the recipe we used ans we all agreed they were the best pumpkin seeds we've ever had!  

 Hannah's Hello Kitty Pumpkin.  

 My kiddos and their pumpkins  

 all lit up  

Friday night: Pizza & Movie Night

We love traditions!  This is one of our favorites...we love Friday night family movie night!  Every Friday  we make homemade pizza together.  Then sit down after a busy week and enjoy a movie.  These pics are from our first movie night in our new house.  

 Isaac's first time having popcorn (without mommy biting the kernel part off first :))

Now that reminds me...I better get the pizza dough going.  Tonight is homemade pizza and Charlotte's Web!