Our Memorial Day Weekend

Friday:

On Friday we went to a farm to pick strawberries. It was incredibly humid, but we had a good time. A lot of the strawberries had already been picked, but we were able to find some good ones further back in the field. Grammy came and picked with us, which was very nice. The kids love spending time with their Grammy!! This farm doesn't spray their berries, which makes me happy!! We're trying hard to get rid of as many chemicals from our diet as we can. When we got home, Noah had accidentally squished a lot of his berries, so we just made them into a quick jam! Delicious!!

Everyone was so hot and sweaty and the kids' hair was crazy!! But I love this picture anyway!!

Our berries at home.

Our jam!!

Saturday:

Saturday morning we took Noah and Abby to Lowe's for the Build and Grow. They've probably done 20 of those now. They love doing them and they're free!! After that we had appointments for Abby and Joshua to have haircuts. So we drove to the kiddie haircutting place. This was Joshua's first haircut and I was a little apprehensive because I was afraid he'd look older and that he might lose his signature look!! But afterwards, I was very happy because he still had his curls and he looked even better!! But we were a bit early, so before we went in, I took a few "before" shots of him while we waited in the car.

And then he got his hair cut. He did awesome!! I was so afraid he'd be difficult, but he really didn't pay any attention to the lady cutting his hair and just looked around!! Such a good boy!

He got to ride in the green car during the cut. I think that helped keep him happy!!

Abby got a nice trim and bang cut as well! She was watching the Little Mermaid during her cut!!In the evening we decided on doing a cookout. We grilled hamburgers and hotdogs, made corn on the cob, and had watermelon and chips. Our deck was shaded and it made it not so hot, so it was very nice. A nice quiet dinner was just what we needed.

Sunday:

Sunday we went to church and then after that we went down to the Taste of Cincinnati. This was our second year going and we really enjoy it. We sort of treat it like just having a really big lunch!! We don't stay more than an hour and a half, but we get all the yummy food we want and have a great time!!

Our first taste of a deep fried Twinkie. I just thought it was ok. Apparently when you fry the Twinkie the cream absorbs or something into the cake, because we couldn't find it. I think I prefer plain Twinkies!! But it was fun anyway!!

Daddy talked Noah into trying BBQ ribs for the first time and he loved them!! Daddy was so thrilled because now he has a rib eating partner (I don't do meat on the bone!!). It was cute watching him!!

After our lunch, we went to the cemetery to put a dozen yellow roses on my grandmothers grave. I miss her. I hope she loved her flowers. They were very pretty!

Monday:

On Monday we drove up to the Young's Jersey Dairy up near Xenia. We had heard a lot about this place from Steve's family but we had never been before. It was a really neat place. They make their own ice cream and cheese. We sampled all of that and brought some home!! They have a big sit down restaurant with country style food and a smaller diner type restaurant with hotdogs and burgers. We went to the sit down place and it was delicious!! The sweet potato bread is to die for!! But before we ate, we fed the goats and pet the calves, the kids played a round of mini golf and slid down the big sack slide a few times. It's a very fun, family friendly place.

Even Joshua fed a goat!!

Joshua loved sampling my vanilla milk shake!!! Who can blame him? It was delicious!!!

It was a really great weekend. Lots of memories were made and we had some nice family time together. This is what I couldn't wait to get back to during Joshua's hospital stay. I just wanted to do normal family things again so badly and it just killed me that we were separated so much. It feels so good to be a family of 5 now. I'm very happy!!