Strawberries!

It's no secret that I like strawberries. I don't think most people know just how much I do though...and how far back it goes.  It is sort of in my blood I guess. My dad is from a place known for strawberries. They had a special festival just for the special berry. :) Dad's Aunt Pete had a strawberry farm that I remember visiting a lot when I was younger. Of course I did not appreciate the strawberry field as much then as I would now, but those are still great memories that I have.

We have a strawberry farm about 5 miles (if that) from our house in NC and I get so excited when I see the big wooden strawberry hanging from Garner's Farm sign because that means it is time to go pickin'! I love that we can pick our own, and of coure it doesn't hurt that it's cheaper and so much more fun than picking up a plastic container from who knows where at the grocery store.

I'm so thankful to have been able to share my love of the 'berry with our kidlet. I'm pretty sure he loves them as much as I do!

As I was going through pictures tonight for a completely different reason, I ran across an old pic of K at the strawberry field. That led me to wonder how many years we have gone to pick. It's hard to remember because we've gone more than once each year (heck the season JUST started and we've been twice)! Of course, I have K's life pretty much documeted in pictures so it's just a matter of weeding through to find things out. ;) Strawberry season is sort of short-ish so the pics were pretty easy to find. He has been 4 years! 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012!

Here are some pics....through the berry pickin' years. :)

2009

2010

2011

2012

^ He was very concerned about the 2 plants that apparently didn't grow,



 ^ Asking all kinds of questions and telling the lady behind the counter to be sure to weigh all of his strawberries.

Our afternoon

Today when we got up Kellen started talking about the park. He was almost insistent on wanting to go at 6:30am but somehow (and honestly I'm not sure how) I convinced him it would be better in the afternoon when the sun was out. As I figured, he remembered all of that when I picked him up today. So...we did, in fact, go to the park. He was even more excited about the park we went to. Instead of the normal "red and blue park with trees" we went to the "huuuuge wooden park". Here are a couple of pics of his fun.

Stay tuned for a post this weekend. We are meeting Daddy at the zoo and he has already been talking about it a lot. He is so excited!