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This past weekend we went Huckleberry Picking!


The first time I had ever done this was with Ben’s family and I have loved it ever since. They make the BEST shakes ever and usually one time picking will give us a years worth of GREAT shakes! Ben and I have decided that this is now our tradition to go at least once a year! The week before we went we would tell people that we were going picking on Labor day weekend and everyone told us we were too late and nothing was left, but little do they know that we have a secret (sacred to us) spot that always has huckleberries waiting just for us! YUM, YUM, YUM!!!

In the past we have always made it a day trip, but this year we decided it would be fun to camp overnight. The Horsley’s joined us and we ended up leaving 2 hours later than we had planned, but decided to go anyway and it was still fun. We arrived at camp in the dark and had to set up camp and cook dinner. The Horsley’s brought their Bellagio Hotel (aka tent the size of our garage- if only I had a picture!) and we set up our little tent. We ate Dutch Oven Pizza at midnight !

The next morning we had some breakfast, Chad, Lesa, and family joined us, and we started picking, or everyone else started picking. Bees have infested the mountain this year and were everywhere and really liked me for some reason. I ended up getting stung TWO times and I have never been stung before in my life. Needless to say, I wasn’t a very productive picker for a little while. (the only thing I can figure out is that they like baby wipe smell which I had washed my hands with or else they like the smell of bacon that I had cooked for breakfast) Meisha also got stung in the mouth trying to catch them like she does other bugs.

Eli didn’t like picking at first because we were on a hill and it was hard for him to get around, but he like the huckleberries so we just kept feeding them to him, then about half way through picking he figured out what we were doing and I could sit him next to a bush full of them and he would sit their picking them off and eating them. With each berry he got into his mouth we would hear him say “Mmmmm.”

We left early afternoon to get home for the BYU game that night.
Eli loved helping me unpack so that he could get into the suitcase! He gets to be more and more fun to have around as his personality shines through.