Corn Picking!

You know you live in Nebraska when you find yourself doing this...............

Yep that's right, got to pick ourselves some corn this week! 

Andy talked his uncle into planting us a little patch of sweet corn in his fields a few months ago, and Sunday we got the call.....THE CORN IS READY!  So we recruited some corn picking people and headed out to Ashland!

Andy absolutely loved every second of it, and was a corn picking machine.  I got into as well, it was a really fun experience and I think if you live in Nebraska you have to do it at least once!

Coop even got in on some of the action!

He mostly hung out with Aunt Mary though and got to do fun things like pet her goats, play with Jesse the dog, and go on little rides (slowly) on the ATV!  He's a farm boy at heart ;)

Out in the fields

Jesse even helped us out some

Even got cousin Andrea in on the action too, and at almost 8 months pregnant!  She was amazing, I can't say corn picking would be the first thing I would want to do with 6 weeks left to go, but she loved it!  (and we really needed her help too ;)  )

After we picked for a couple hours on Sunday and Thursday night, the fun didn't stop there.  Then we got to process it, and because we had so much of it, we cut a lot of it off the ears to freeze for later!

What a fun experience!  I think I learned more about corn than I ever thought I would know, and now we have corn to eat all year long!  We also got to share it with neighbors, co-workers, family, and friends.  Andy loved running around the neighborhood handing out bags ;)

Thanks Uncle Kevin and Aunt Mary for helping us out with this!  And big thanks to John and Kristel and Andrea and Ryan for helping with the harvest!!!!!