Spray-park and Blueberry Picking

Last weekend we went to a park, but before we even set foot in the park we ate lunch right on the truck's tailgate. I knew that if Riley saw the spray-park he wouldn't want to ride his bike or let alone eat his lunch.

Once we were done eating Sydna helped me set up our stuff while the boys headed for the looping trail. Riley sat on his bike and began pedaling but was going nowhere, lol. The chain had come loose. Jacob couldn't get the chain to stay on the sprockets. It took him about five minutes to finally get the chain on right.

Once his bike was fixed off he went.

He enjoyed himself so much. We couldn't help but laugh ... even Sydna back there was cracking up at her little brother. He just looked so cute and funny riding his bike.

After going around the looping trail six times he finally got tired. He drank lots of water then asked to put on his swimming trunks.

The water was cold but it felt good on this very warm day. Riley though, would run away from it. Little chicken.

After a while Riley got cold. He came to me and told me he wanted to ride his bike again. By this time the older kids were asking when we were going to leave. Ugh! I ignored their questions because really, it's not up to them when we leave places.

Riley was very confident by now. He even rode his bike with his legs up on the bar.

This face ... we all love him so much!

On our way to the park we spotted a blueberry farm. Once we left the park we drove back to it. This was our very first blueberry picking experience.

We let Riley hold the bucket, we told him to only pick the blue berries {not the white ones} and there was no stopping him. He really took a liking to it. Didn't fuss not one time.

Blueberries are Jacob's favorite so he wanted to make sure we picked a lot of them.

After an hour we figured we had picked enough. Plus, we were feeling a bit worn out from being all day out in the sun.

Shy of 5 lbs. for $7.22, not bad.

Blueberry picking was a lot of fun. We've come to realize that we really enjoy u-pick farms. It is so fun to pick your own fruit and veggies and it is a perfect opportunity to do this as a family and create more fun memories. Even Riley said several times during our visit, "this is fun huh?, I like picking blueberries". Now, we will add blueberry picking to our list of new Washington traditions.


We left around 6:30 pm. We took a different freeway back home and we couldn't help but comment at how beautiful it is here. We know it's a beautiful state but what's amazing is that everywhere you go around the Seattle area or even two hours away from Seattle in both directions, North and South ... it's still pretty. We have yet to drive to Eastern Washington so I can't give my input on that yet.

I really enjoyed our Saturday. I didn't let the sun determine what time we would leave or the brief nagging of my two older kids. I was in the moment and took in everything around me. Stopping at the blueberry farm was an added bonus that hadn't even crossed our minds to do.

I washed the blueberries and spread them on cookie sheets and put them in the freezer. Once frozen we placed them in freezer bags. We're stocked up for a while. We still have strawberries too. Sydna has made herself strawberry smoothies and Jacob's made us strawberry ice cream. He also already made us blueberry muffins. I'm hoping that this coming weekend he'll make us blueberry pancakes. Yum!