Blueberry picking

Back in May, when Jonathan and I went to the temple Wine and Food Festival, complete with auction (where we got the Sheraton certificates), we also went in with another family for a day at the farm.  The other family couldn't work out a good date to go in July, so we postponed the whole-day event until August or September.  But our hosts were gracious enough to offer our family alone a chance to come up for a morning of blueberry picking!  (It's way more fun to pick berries than peppers or squash, or other fall veggies.)  

 Showing off the blueberries.

 Oooh, so many to pick from the bushes!

 I'm holding the bowl... the kids just wanted to eat.

 Ari the taste-tester.

 Xander literally grabbing handfuls.

Myself with Roger and Laura, our gracious hosts.  I'm holding the huge bag of berries we picked, plus walnut butter made from their crop of walnuts!  We had the walnut butter for lunch, along with humus made from their garbanzo beans, pita, home-grown tomato/avocado salad with mozzarella and their garden's basil, chicken salad... it was heavenly.  I can't wait to go back for the full day!

In the meantime, we've had blueberries with cereal, blueberries with whipped cream, blueberries and yogurt, blueberries by themselves, and the kids' favorite, blueberry waffles.