Peaches, Papa, and the Portland Saturday Market

We’ve been busy—really busy! We’re trying to squeeze in as much “fun stuff” as possible for Sam and Seth before baby comes and has to eat every three hours. It’s been great for family time, but a little hard on this mama’s swollen feet. However, I’m keen to do as much as possible these days hoping to go into labor (baby is officially full term as I hit 37 weeks yesterday)!

One evening we met the Willard’s at a wonderful little orchard to pick peaches. It’s such a great place because all their trees are dwarf trees, meaning that they are short enough for even the boys to pick! I’ve found that it’s hilarious bringing Ben to pick with us, because he’s so task orientated that he picks TONS. This time, before I knew it, we had loaded 62 pounds of peaches on our wagon and I was wondering what I was going to do with them all! Luckily the days got a bit cooler and I was able to can 13 jars! This is the size of all the trees at Bell’s Orchard—they have peaches, pears and apples all in dwarf trees!

 

Seth, Sam testing the peaches out to make sure they were good

Ben and Wesley That’s a whole lot of peaches! And it really only took us about 10 minutes to pick! Beautiful canned peaches!

Last weekend my dad came up for a quick visit. We haven’t gotten to see him much this summer and the boys were craving some Papa time! We wanted to do something fun on Saturday, so we thought riding the max town to the Portland Saturday Market would be a good adventure. We ogled all the art work, odd people, flowers, and homemade goods and then ended our time by eating lunch at a food pod downtown. Seth, Sam and Papa checking out the river International section of market All kinds of food! Pulled pork salad, Asian food, a hot dog, and a gourmet grilled cheese. We ended the day with specialty popcorn drizzled in chocolate…yum, yum. The max ride home