Strawberry Picking

Over Memorial Day weekend Daddy had a guys weekend with Uncle Jake, Grandad, Uncle Troy, and his friend Jason.  Nana and Mommy always make it girls weekend and now it has turned into a Hannah and Owen fun weekend and we did have fun going out and doing things together.  The first on Mommy's list was strawberry picking.  We ventured out to Varina to the Gallmeyer Farm to pick berries.  It was a beautiful day and we had fun looking for the perfect strawberries.  Hannah learned to look for the red ones and not to pick the white ones.  Nana and Hannah filled their basket first.  Mommy and Owen worked together, but Owen spent more time playing with the hay in the patch than picking strawberries, but that's okay.  Now when we eat strawberries they always talk about how it grows on a plant and you have to pick it off and put it in your basket!

 Hannah runs to pick the first strawberries then...

tumbles down as her feet get all tangled in the strawberry plants.

Owen also blazes a trail to pick the first strawberries for his basket.

 Nana and Hannah search for the perfect strawberries.

With such great helpers our baskets fill up!

 Owen picks Mommy some flowers.

He also adorns the strawberry plants with hay...I thought we were picking strawberries Owen.

 Hannah couldn't wait to take a bite.  Every few minutes we'd have to say, "Hannah we have to wash them first!".

My sweet as a strawberry girl!

Hannah is proud of the strawberries she picked.

We pay for our strawberries and the lady lets Hannah and Owen ring them up on the cash register.

It didn't take us long to eat all those strawberries.  One of our favorite things to make was strawberry shortcake!  When I took out the angel food cake after dinner one night Hannah said, "Yay, cake!  Is it my birthday?".  When I said no the next question became, "Is it Owen's birthday?".  This really made us laugh since they share a birthday.  Then they asked, "is it Mommy's/Daddy's birthday."  We talked about the difference between our strawberry shortcake and birthday cake, but it was funny to see the association they had between cake and birthdays.

 Owen likes his strawberry shortcake without whip cream because he doesn't like it, Hannah likes her with whip cream and Mommy gets the biggest bowl with the most whip cream!

Mmmm!  Delicious!