Little Grad

berry picking

Somehow despite living close to a number of farms that offer strawberry picking we had never gotten around to going. The plan was for all 4 of us to go this past Saturday but I had a nasty headache so Neil took the kids and the camera.  Thankfully I felt better after a good rest on the couch and they three of them had a blast.

They picked 4 full buckets.  I'm working on my second batch of jelly and we still have 1.5 buckets in the fridge at least. 

gardening

I guess love of gardening or well even just growing a few flowers skips a generation.

banana splits

Somehow while I was out this week Emily and Neil realized that Emily had never had a banana split.  We solved that problem on Saturday.

Easter

10

That's right Elijah is 10.  He and Neil went to DC for his birthday.

BC States

The State meet for kids with B and C times was last weekend.  If you have no idea what that means don't worry its really not important for the pictures.  Elijah and Emily both swam well and it was fun to watch them though I do not recommend handling the time change by getting up at 6am to drive to a swim meet while its still dark outside.

Elijah improved all but one of his times by a good bit and won his heat in the 100 im.