Cherries!

I cannot believe how long it has been since I've posted!  :-p  I have missed so much on here.  I feel like I have writer's block so much of the time.  But I'll start with something recent, and hopefully that will be the jolt I need to get back to blogging.

This past Sunday, between two days of fun picnics with friends, we headed down the road a bit to find a cherry orchard!  We are so blessed to have several orchards around here that allow you to pick your own fruit...strawberries, cherries, peaches, apples.  None of us have been cherry picking before, so this was a first for all of us!  :-)  David decided to follow his GPS rather than the directions from the orchard.  It made for an interesting trip...we got to see part of the county we haven't seen before.  Josiah was a little worried when we started on the gravel road up the mountain, and he told David he needed to turn around.  But we made it up and down the mountain without any problem.  We slathered on the sunscreen and headed into the trees to pick and eat sweet cherries.

View from the orchard!  BEAUTIFUL!

We were a little surprised at how family friendly it was!  It was nice to not have to bend down to the ground, as we would for strawberries, and the tree branches were low enough the kids were able to reach cherries on their own. 

Even Isaac tried.  We had to stop several times to pick leaves out of his mouth. :-) 

The kids were thrilled to see a bird's nest where one of the tree trunks began to branch out.  It was not even three feet off the ground!

Of course, we all enjoyed eating the cherries as we were picking.  They were so juicy and sweet!

Even with all the cherry snitching, we still walked away with over six pounds of cherries!  Next time we'll think ahead and leave the stems on most of the fruit, so they last longer ;-)

I think this will definitely become a yearly tradition!