Strawberry Patch

Last Wednesday after school I took Paige to our local strawberry patch.  I’m not a strawberry fan at all, but Stephen and Paige LOVE them.  The berry farm provides a gallon bucket for you to pick your strawberries and drop them in and it’s only $6 per gallon when you pick them yourself…so much cheaper than buying them at the grocery store!  Paige was an absolute pro at picking just the right strawberries.  She would leave the ones that were still too small and the ones that weren’t the right shade of red just yet.

An Army helicopter flew over the strawberry patch while we were there…she was quite taken with watching it!

Those look just right!

Look at our haul!  It took us about 45 minutes to pick this many.  Next time we may not even pick this much because it’s hard to eat that many before they go bad!

AWANA Awards

Paige completed her first year of AWANA Cubbies on May 2!  She worked really, really hard this year memorizing tons of verses and completed her first year book!  Stephen and I were SO incredibly proud of her.

Paige is showing off her Cubbie Bear pin that she now gets to wear on her Cubbies vest for completing her first book.  She was very excited to have earned Cubbie Bear!

Paige and our niece, Parker, after the Awards ceremony.  Parker is a Spark and has one more year before she graduates to T & T for Girls.  She recited all of Psalms 23…way to go, Parker!

Women Can Run/Walk Arkansas 2010

This past Saturday, my mom, sister, and I participated in the 2010 Women Can Run/Walk Arkansas 5K.  We’ve been training for the past 10 weeks on Tuesdays and Saturdays (and Mom and I would normally throw in another day somewhere).  We really enjoy the walking ( I have to walk because I’m 25 weeks pregnant…and since I didn’t run before I was pregnant, I can’t now…not that I would…I hate running!) and the time we get to chat while we walk. It’s an excellent stress reliever for me and I get to vent to Mom about things that are frustrating me!  We plan to keep training and participate in our community’s festival 4 miler in June…I can’t wait! 

 

I was very surprised to find out that I won my age division for walkers!  We left before the awards were passed out because none of us thought we won anything…I have a medal coming though.  I’ve never won anything like this for an athletic type event…unless All-American cheerleader counts.  Anyway, Mom came in 7th in her age division for walkers and Leslie came in 5th in her division for runners!  WE ROCK! 

Mother’s Day

I’m so blessed to be the mom of Paige Allison and Ryan Clark!  Motherhood makes my life hectic and rewarding all at the same time.  Some days I want to quit and just go back to bed…others I don’t want to put Paige to bed because she’s so sweet!  I know I’m fulfilling my calling by being at Mom.