strawberry fields forever

okay, not a very original title....but this is truly what was playing in my head Thursday morning as we went strawberry picking. Salena & I and all 6 kids headed out at about 7:35 am to go pick strawberries. We were very surprised when we arrived just a few minutes after they opened at 8:00am to see that they were already pretty crowded. But we had the most helpers by far and we picked all of these berries in about 35 minutes. The kids did great. Do you want to know what we did with all of these berries? Well Salena's family took the flat that Abram is holding and we took the rest.

And with those strawberries I made fresh strawberry shortcake for dessert that night.

I've had strawberries on my Wheaties twice, we had smoothies yesterday as a mid-morning snack and I made 19 jars (plastic 8oz. cups) of freezer jam!!! All so very yummy. I'm planning to go pick more next week so I can make strawberry-rhubarb jam as well. It was fun and quite quick and easy. Kamiryn helped make the jam today (our second batch) and she was quite proud of our accomplishment. And of course I didn't take pictures of the jam! Sorry about that! Maybe next time.
We had a fabulous 4th and tomorrow is our 17th wedding anniversary, so more posts coming very soon!
And thanks so much for the supportive comments about my fit throwing! It is helpful to know that we all go through it to some degree or another and that I'm not the only one to rely on chocolate to cure what ails me! I hope you all had a great 4th and that your weekend is wonderful as well.