Raspberry Picking

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While Jon was in California, my parents and I took the kids to the farm.  We picked cherries and black raspberries.  It was our first time picking cherries.  Brayden really enjoyed cherry picking, but needed a lift up to reach the cherries.



After we picked cherries, we walked over to the black raspberry field.  The first thing we noticed when we got to the raspberry field was that it was really hot outside!  The cherry trees provided a nice amount of shade, but the raspberry fields were in the direct sun.  Brayden was excited about picking for the first few minutes and then it went downhill fast.


Both of the kids were too hot and not happy.  We tried dumping a water bottle over Brayden's head, but even that didn't cheer him up!


Taylor wasn't doing much better than Brayden.  My little smiley girl had a very grouchy expression on her face.  We decided to pick a couple of containers really quickly and then go back to the main farm for some water and shade!

Papa swooped in and saved the day by buying Brayden a popsicle from the store.  After the popsicle and cold waters all around everybody was feeling much better and was ready to go play!


Luckily, a bunch of the fun farm areas were in the shade!  Brayden loved playing on all the big wooden trucks.

Taylor even took a turn driving the truck!


Taylor really wanted to play on the big kid playground, but she isn't quite ready for it!  She settled for sitting with Grandma and Papa.  Grandma found a cute hungry goat for Taylor to feed while Brayden played on the slides.


The farm has a whole bunch of animals to visit.  We saw ducks, chickens, peacocks, rabbits, donkeys, horses, pigs, and goats.


Brayden especially liked feeding the goats and the horse!



The highlight of the farm is always the giant corn bin!  Brayden's mission was to use the dump trucks to make a giant corn mountain!


My mom, being a very daring person, even let Taylor play in the corn!  Taylor loved it!!!  The only problem was that she wanted to eat the corn!  Taylor is extremely determined.  Once she gets it in her head to do something, she won't take no for an answer.  If you do say no, she gets upset and tried even harder to do it!  My mom tried to pick her back up, but Taylor was not having it.  So they spent the majority of the time with Taylor picking up the corn and my mom taking it out of her little closed fist.  It was very funny to watch!