Some berry fun berry picking!!

"One berry 

Two berry

Pick me a blueberry"

"Finger and pawberry

My berry, your berry"

"Mountains and fountains

Rain down on me

Buried in berries

What a jam jamboree!"

On Saturday, Melody went berry picking with one of her grandma's and a sweet cousin her age, as well.  They have done it for a couple years now and love that special time together.  And how wonderful that we get "buried in berries" and have "mountains and fountains" to wash, freeze and eat for many weeks and months to come....  smoothies, blueberry pancakes, blueberry sweet bread, blueberry french toast bake, blueberry muffins, blueberries on our morning oatmeal!!   Yummy yum!!  

Jamberry was one of those first books that we read to Fone when he was a baby.  It has become a favorite in our house with all our young'uns.  Most of us can quote the little rhymes, we have read it or heard it read that much!!  

A productive afternoon

A huge thank you goes out to my sweet nephew and oldest son, Fone, for all their hard work this morning.  They weeded and sweat and raked and sweat and spread mulch and sweat some more!  I wish I would have taken "before" pictures, but didn't even think of it.  But, here's a look at the wonderful job they did - after a few hours of hard work and 27 bags of mulch....

++  Thank you, God, for boys who aren't afraid to do a little hard work, get dirty and for the fruits of their labor!!  ++