handpicked and homemade strawberry rhubarb cobbler.....mmm,mmm,good

We had such a fun Saturday today. We started off the morning getting the entire upstairs of my house fairly thoroughly cleaned. I LOVE THAT! Everyone helping and pitching in makes it so much faster. And the best part was that we didn't even have any complaining from the girls. They were super helpful today!

Then we decided to go and do one of our favorite things to do...... pick fruit. Seriously I think we could be hired out to do this job for people because we seriously enjoy it! So our local farm had strawberries ripe for the picking. They weren't the BEST price but they were still much cheaper than the store and it was nice to get outside today. So we arrived at the farm, picked up our buckets, didn't forget to pet the dog, the various cats, and all the new baby kittens. Then we loaded the kids up in the wheelbarrow and the daddymule pulled them out to the field. In probably under 10 minutes we had picked 10 pounds of strawberries!

We stopped off at the store on our way home to buy something I have never bought before......rhubarb. Yes I have never ever had uncooked rhubarb in my house. But Dustin really wanted to make a strawberry rhubarb cobbler, so we needed rhubarb! When we got home Lilly and Daddy set to work making the dessert while I made the dinner, and Maddy and Josey busied themselves doing a little bit of this.....
They have decided that they LOVE reading lately and I couldn't be happier! I told them for every "approved" (by MOM) book, I would give them a dollar to use as a bookmark and then at the end they would earn the dollar. TRANSLATION: READ READ READ! Maddy just finished the first Harry Potter book and Josey is reading a book about Neverland. We will see how many books they can get through this summer and how much money I am out!

So here is the process with the cobbler.....

strawberries and rhubarb washed and chopped.
Butter added to the topping........we might have had to fish a few pieces of paper out of the mixings! (I HATE MY CAMERA! ALL THE PICTURES ARE BLURRY, SORRY)

Taking a break for a snapshot! Dustin was great with Lilly today. He let her do almost EVERYTHING and didn't once lose his patience. I can't say that when I cook with the kids it goes that same way! But she was having so much fun and I think Dustin was too. If you look closely you can see where she liked to wipe her hands......

Lilly kept on insisting that pictures were taken of her wings.....so there were a few pictures of her wings taken. She thinks this dress and wings look like the character Vidia from the Tinkerbell movie so she loves them. The scary part is that Vidia is the really mean fairly that no one likes.......what does that mean that she WANTS to look like her?

Then I helped her get the fruit in the dish.

And we finished off with the topping.

And 45 minutes later, we had this deliciousness! And it was DELICIOUS! Next time we will have to have another family over because it made A TON! But we wanted a trial run first before we subjected someone to our cooking. Now we know it's good!

And the two chefs with the finished product.

And by the way our microwave is getting fixed, which is why the wall looks so weird behind them.