Life is just a bowl of berries

For our next regional adventure, we decided to head to Concord for some strawberry picking. Luke's comment is, "It's not as fun as you might think". In my opinion, it was as fun as I thunk, and I thunked it was gonna be very fun!

Looking for the reddest, juciest, biggest berries!

Henry says - I found one, mom!

Daddy, begrudgingly, gets in on the action. He kept asking me why a strawberry field wasn't shaded more. :-)

The fruits of our labor!

Henry defininitely enjoyed the juicy goodness.

What happened next was the best part... We each chose what we wanted to do with our berries. I chose strawberry ice cream. Unfortunately, I got distracted and ended up with some scrambled egg in the custard. I used a sieve, but the texture was still off. Sad. Luke couldn't pick just one thing, so I spoiled him by making both strawberry bread and strawberry sorbet. Both were amazing! Unfortunately though, I made these things while making dinner also. Here is what we had to deal with afterwards! (And this is only half of the mess!) We'd all agree though - totally worth it!

Julie and Maclain's Wedding

Julie and Maclain - the reason for our travels! Aren't they beautiful? They not only look that way, they sound that way, too.















Our happy threesome, enjoying a beautiful (and a bit windy!) day atop one of Colorado's gorgeous peaks.












One of the reasons for our attendance - the ALF clan! If it weren't for ALF, The Boston Andersons wouldn't exist! Our matchmaker, Kirstin, is front row, right.

Henry enjoys himself at his very first wedding. He's relaxing and partaking of some excellent bread!

After eating, Henry realizes that weddings are more than a good meal... Grampa shows him how to party.


















And Granny gives him some tips during a slow-dance on the dance floor.










The Paul Anderson clan, celebrating his 62nd year.

The Boston Murakamis?

Mark and Lisa traveled to Boston to check out our new digs, and more importantly, to check out whether Boston might be a good location for Mark's residency.

I'm pretty sure that http://www.thebostonmurakamis.blogspot.com/ is an available url. So perhaps, in effort to get Mark and Lisa to come out here , I should sign them up.


Here, Lisa gives Henry a new view of the den.



















Mark shows Henry how to take a digital picture...



















And Henry proves, even amidst 3 beautiful women, he still steals the frame.














However, the story does NOT end here.

No, no...

We couldn't just have a wonderful time, five Oles hanging out, enjoying a new city together (okay, newer to some of us than others, Hillary).

From the photo you see above, things took a dramatic turn.

We had said our fond farewells to the (hopefully soon-to-be) Boston Murakamis and to Connecticut Hillary, as we headed to Julie's wedding in Colorado.




But...





Only a few hours later...














Here we are again, enjoying yet another decadent meal. How did this happen, you may ask? Well, it was due to "low cloud cover" in the Boston area, and it led to some extreme flight delays for us "Boston Andersons". You might see in my eyes in the above picture that I look as though I'm sensing a long night might be ahead of me (hence drinking cappuccino at 8pm). I was correct, in that our night did not end until our heads hit the pillow in Denver at six o'clock in the morning, Boston time!!!! It sounds bad folks, but please remember, we had a 13-month-old in tow. It's worse than you're imagining... Really though, we made it, and our bonus night in Boston was a blast.