BRACAU 27 BLOG'S

Today was a rather lazy day, which was totally fine with the girls and I.  Some days just need to be a day spent in your jammies, at home, snuggling and playing and just being.  And we would have been fine with us to remain in our jammies for the entire day had it not been for my friend Betsy posting a message on my Facebook page saying that the farm where she has her CSA still had pick your own tomatoes for $1.00/pound.  Mary and I have been dying to make the tomato sauce recipe (and can it) from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (such an incredible book) for awhile now and at $1.00/pound how could we pass this up?!  So, I called Mary to see if she and her tribe would be up for an adventure, and no sooner did I finish asking the question than she said "yes" and went to go get her littles ready.  So off we went to meet up with our friends in Millis.  We arrived to discover that sadly they were done picking for the day.  Bummer.  But on the bright side they do have an ice cream stand there, so the next logical move was, of course, to have ice cream for dinner!  Perfect for Meatless Monday, if I do say so myself.  

We spent our fun filled, family week alternating between daytrips and days spent at home doing home things.  We spent a fair amount of time going back and forth about whether to take the girls to Edaville Railroad or to a water park. The water park ultimately won out since we had just done the fair and wanted to head somewhere different. 


It took the girls awhile to warm up to the waterpark.  There was so much to take in, and in all honesty it was not the most ideal day to be there.  The weather was rather chilly for a summer day, and it was overcast (until it was time to head home that is, and then there were gorgeous blue skies for us).  We took them in the kids sections and on the lazy river, but it was not until we introduced them to the wave pool that they really got into it.  

It´s Idea generation week at Hyper Island. This is where all new students get mixed up in groups and experience new ways of thinking.

"The Idea generation week has been fun, challenging and energizing! I think I've had about a billion ideas during these past 3 days; it's really amazing to see what can come out of your head when you're running around, discussing with others or making funny noises in a Hyper Island Orchestra! It was great to finally be given a brief to work on and mixing all the classes together was very exciting as you get a whole bunch of inspiration from the other students! Shame it was only 3 days...."

- Sophie Simmons, eCommerce Manager 11

In order to help celebrate Mass Farmer's Market week, many of the local bloggers have agreed to post something about their local market.  Since we have had four straight days of rain (and since an online meeting for the Midwives College of Utah yesterday) we were not able to make it to the Wayland Farmer's Market (our usual market).  It is held on Wednesdays at Russell's Garden Center from 12:00pm-5:00pm.  Each week the girls and I go and buy our weekly dozen eggs, loaf of bread and assorted other fruits and vegetables.  We love to check out the art project that Beehive Art offers for the kids.  It's a fantastic market, and our week does not feel right if we don't go.  

Since we did not make it there yesterday, due to the aforementioned rain and meeting, I have chosen to post pictures from our weekly CSA trip to Hanson's Farm and from our visit to Honey Pot Hill Orchard (today) as a way to spotlight some of the local farms we love. 

Even though it was raining the girls still wanted to pick raspberries and flowers.  

They truly love being at the farm, rain, shine, mud, snow. Doesn't  matter to them. They are country girls through and through and would seriously do well on a teeny-tiny farm of their own.

The rain was making it really hard to get good pictures by the end of our trip to Hanson's.

The first cider donut of the season at Honey Pot Hill Orchard.  

"Mama! Look!  A frog!"  

"Here you go!"