Summer Vacation, part 3

We went berry picking!  I felt like Sal, in Blueberries for Sal!  We picked blackberries and blueberries, and I got to carry my own bucket! 

 

 Here we go!  Daddy, Momma and I started up the hill with the blackberries!

 

 Berries make me want to dance!

Well, to be honest, just about anything makes me want to dance!

 Look at those juicy blackberries!  Yum!

After we had a good bucket of blackberries, we went down the hill to help get blueberries!  

Hanna had already started!

 I picked blueberries with Hanna.  We had great fun!

The next few days we ate berries on our cereal, with our yogurt, in our icecream, and in fruit salads, plus Momma made a berry pie and Grandma made some berry jam!  

There is NOTHING like fresh berries!

Summer Vacation, part 2

We also had dance parties!  Well, to be honest I did most of the dancing but once in a while I convinced others to dance with me!

 Samuel danced with me!

 So did Miriam and Hanna!

I played outside a lot. 

  Aunt Elisabeth and I made up a game with these paddles and balls.

 My favorite name is Elisabeth.  It is so great that I have an aunt named Elisabeth!

I had lots of fun with my aunt!

Summer Vacation, part 1

We took a long vacation this summer!  First, we went to New York to visit my Grandma and Papa.  We used to visit them in Colorado but they recently moved up to another house in the Catskills area in New York so we went there this time!  Not only was Grandma and Papa there, but Aunt Elisabeth, Uncle Blas, my cousins Hanna and Samuel, AND another cousin of theirs, Miriam, was there too!  It was super fun.  We were there for about a week and a half to celebrate Grandma and Papa's 50th wedding anniversary. 

Man, oh man was it fun! 

We went to a brand new park!  Seriously, they finished building it a few days before we got there.  

They must have known I was coming! 

 I love to swing.  It is even more fun, now that I can pump the swings myself!

 Daddy played baseball with Papa, Uncle Blas and Samuel.

 And we played a lot of croquet.  Pretty much every night!

 

(I got pretty good...)