Underwood Strawberry Picking, 2014

It's spring, so it's time for our annual trip to Underwood Family Farms to pick strawberries with our Mom2Mom friends.

We drove to Moorpark on Thursday with our new friend Christina and her daughters Cami and Melanie. Cami is in Cora's class, and Melanie is a few days older than Violet, so the girls all have fun together.

 We've been strawberry-picking with Liana since she and Violet were babies strapped to our chests.

 Here's Violet, Cora, Cami and Melanie. Christina and I picked up the big girls about 10 minutes apart, so they didn't arouse suspicion by leaving their class together.

 It was forecast to be horribly hot on Friday, with a wind. Thankfully, though it was hot, the wind kept us cool and dry, so our day was bearable.

 Farmer Tiffany here was very helpful and personable; she led the girls and I to a couple of rows with many bright red, juicy berries to choose from.

 Yum!
Violet later made strawberry juice with some of hers. In her words, you just "crack the strawberries and put them in water." I had her rinse and cut off the stem, and then we blended them in the blender with a tiny bit of water and sugar. It was thick, but tasty too.

 Here, Violet is turning the crank to bring food up the pulley to the goat standing up on the platform. (You can just see his rear legs, as he is blending in to the tree.)

Violet especially loved the goat kids, and wanted to borrow the camera to take her own photos of them.

We had a very fun day together - fun and exhausting. When we got back home around 3, we were all ready for a nap. Well, Christina and I were ready for a nap at least!