Strawberry Season!

Annah hides in the strawberry patch

Today we spent several hours picking strawberries at a local farm. We picked 23 pounds of berries at only .75 cents a pound! We'll can most of them in strawberry jam tomorrow (20 pints of jam) and freeze the rest for a mid-winter treat.

I took this photo just outside Silverton on our way home from the Strawberry farm. We pass this field almost every day and I just love it.

Fun Father's Day Weekend

Mira gives her dad a father's day hug



Every Father's Day Silverton has it's annual Strawberry Festival in the park. This year Shane's dad, Dennis, was able to be with us and we all walked down to the park to enjoy strawberry shortcake and the craft booths. We had beautiful weather!

Mimi (Tirza's mom) and Annah

Shane and I had fun at our annual reunion with college friends last Saturday. Every June we get together with a few of our closest friends from college and this year we met at McMenamins Edgefield in Portland. We had a great time and the girls had a nice time with Grandpa Dennis and Tammy who babysat. Here

Mira Graduates from Kindergarten!

Mira graduated from kindergarten last week during a western themed graduation ceremony at her school. Of course, Annah also wanted to dress as a cowgirl. Don't they just look like rodeo princesses?

Silverton Days

Farm Class

As part of our unit study on farm life we've been participating in a twice-monthly homeschool farm-life class at Geercrest Farm. The girls are learning about farm animals, gardening, foods that come from a farm and learning what it would be like to live on a farm, farm chores and all. Mira likes mucking out the horse barn and Annah likes feeding the goats. Here are some pictures from last few weeks of farm class:





Pet Parade

Here are some pictures from the Silverton Pet Parade a couple weeks ago. There were all kids of pets - from dogs dressed up in costumes and tutus to chickens, goats, sheep, hamsters in cages being pulled on red wagons to goldfish. It was quite entertaining!

Auntie Lissa with Annah at the parade. Lissa just left us with a one-way ticket to Europe. She is currently in Greece, soaking up the Mediterranean sun.

Mira rode her stick horse in the parade, while Annah, friends and I watched.

Little House on the Praire Movie Night

We're been watching all seven seasons of Little House on the Prairie over the last year and we're now on episode 41 in season seven. The girls like to dress up and play Little House so here we are getting ready for Little House movie night.