Our Favorite Freezer Jam

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Today after school we headed to Grandma's Garden

to pick some fresh strawberries

{and radishes and lettuce, but this story is about strawberries :)}

I love that these boys know their way around a garden.

They get down in there and choose the perfect red berries.

Sam is so funny he picks each one up to make sure it is totally red

then says twist and pull, so funny.

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One perfect berry...more to come!

Next step was prepping the berries, joe loved this part

And onto mashing, sam's favorite...

Measuring berries to mix with sugar and surjell

The boys love working with grandma in the kitchen and she lets them help every step of the way

Marking our dates on the jam

Our 2012 batch of freezer jam.  

The favorite of the peanut butter and jelly eaters of our household!!

Sweet Summer Sunday

It was a full and fun Sunday, we started at a great church service

followed by lunch with my favorites at Mason's root beer stand -yum!

Then our cousins came to swim the day away.

We spent all afternoon lazy by the pool, didn't come in until after five...

And then we made Mr Joe happy by playing some "tennis" in the driveway.

He's been begging to go so we hit against the garage door and had a great time!

A full of fun bath was in order to wash the busy day away.

Ready for another week of work, school, tball, hoping to sneak in some more

pool time this week!

Spring Break Sk8

I found these pics on my phone, forgot we had gone to sk8 over

spring break!

We had a lot of fun with Mo...Sam did great once we

switched him to rollerblades, Joe really didn't like it at all...