Life in NC

Wordy Wednesday – Blueberry Picking

August 5, 2008 by Jennifer 18 Comments

No, I didn’t mis-spell the title wrong. Instead of being “wordless” today, I want to be wordy!

We set out on a little adventure this morning. My neighbors told me about a cool blueberry farm that you could pick your own blueberries for only 5.00 a gallon. I love me some blueberries, and I couldn’t believe you could get a whole gallon for 5.00. You would be paying out you know what… for a gallon at the grocery store.

I was told it didn’t take long to get to, it and was just a few miles. Ummm Hummm? Sorry about that had to clear my throat. HA!. I didn’t realize we were going further up the mountain and on a dirt, winding road.

Thank goodness hubbs, had me take his little car today since he took the Van to get tires. I don’t know what I would have done with our min-van. His car handles the curves much better. So we are going

and going….

and oh… is that a house I see? So are we getting close to some kind of civilization?

I think we may….. so we go a little bit further… OH! There is the sign we are looking for. FINALLY! The girls were screaming YAY… we are here finally mommy.

So let the fun begin and let’s get to picking.

The girls were such big helpers. They were grabbing all the berries their little hands could handle.

Look, at these beautiful blueberries. Yes, I had to taste them. I couldn’t wait. They are soooo delicious.

Lyndsee didn’t complain one time. Her little hands were just working so hard too.

After some fun laughs with the girls…

It was time to head back with our buckets of berries in hand. I had so much fun just enjoying the beautiful nature scenery and the girls having a blast as well.

Anyone have any blueberry recipes they want to share?

Holiday Fun Re-Cap

July 6, 2008 by Jennifer 5 Comments

We were on the go for pretty much of all week last week. We were trying to cram in so many things because we knew it was only a matter of time that hubbs would be shipping off to Iowa. I am happy that he can help out there to rebuild the cities, but he sure will be missed that is for sure. Please pray they will have safe travels, and have safe building times during the month he is out there. Also for me that I will not lose my sanity hehe ;).

I took loads of pictures to portray the wonderful time we had celebrating our Nation’s Birthday. Follow along on the ride with me!

First off of course, we couldn’t go out and celebrate unless we were all dressed in red, white and blue. The bargain mom, I am got some great deals on 4th of July wear last year at Target during the after holiday sales, that I saved for us this year.

Here is Lyndsee and I posing before we go out the door.

We head out early for our town’s 4th of July parade. The girls were super excited, but then Lyndsee gave me this look like what the heck are we doing sitting on side of a road.

But then when she noticed we weren’t the only crazy ones sitting on the side of road she was all smiles along with the rest of our crew.

As soon as the loud sirens came barreling down the road, I had to jump up and go sit with Lyndsee and hold her ears. She is not a big fan of loud noises AT ALL and will definitely tell you about it.

After the fun parade was over, we all hurried over to the community watermelon eating fest. I love me some watermelon and you better bet we had some fun eating it 🙂

Then, our tummies are starting to growl so we head over to my parent’s house and have a very delicious cookout with my family and my super fab friend Cindy and her family. We always have so much fun with them and I’m so glad we are back from Florida to enjoy their friendship so much more.

This is my dad acting goofy while hubbs is doing his duties of tending to the grill.

After all our tummies are full, it is time to head right down my parent’s road for the big town fireworks. We had great seats and just had a wonderful time hanging out together and letting the kids play. Cindy brought some sparklers and the girls were enjoying that loads.

Finally it was the drumroll of the night. Madisyn was so stoked and yea Lyndsee you could tell she was really excited ;).

Yep! She slept through the whole fireworks display. We all went home and crashed as soon as we hit the pillows. It was such a fun day but we were all tired. We knew we had another day of fun waiting for us the next day so we better get some shut-eye.

Rise and shine early the next morning. We headed out to the town’s festivities. Madisyn was so excited to do the big air jumps with my nephew.

It was off to the community cookout where we had hotdogs and all the fixings. Just had fun meeting everyone and hanging out. Glad to be back in NC with all the mountain peeps 🙂

Then we all took our seats for the second parade. We love parades, but what was looking like a good parade.

was greeted with downpours of rain in the first 5 minutes of the parade. My girls LOVE playing in the rain and I just couldn’t help to snap a couple of picts of course

God was hearing our prayers and sent us back some sunshine so we could enjoy the rest of the parade.

We went home and grabbed us a quick nap, so we could go back and settle in on the golf course to watch the second fireworks display of the weekend that the country club puts on.

It was a little chilly so glad we changed clothes to much warmer clothes.

All in all, it was a FUN-FILLED weekend and much needed time to spend with daddy before he ships off early Monday morning. It’s going to be so hard not seeing him for that long and I know the girls will miss him like crazy. You will see me blogging full force so I can get in my adult mommy interaction in and please talk back to me so I don’t think I’m insane hehe :). Winners coming and a new contest tomorrow :).

I Am Finally Back Online

June 24, 2008 by Jennifer 8 Comments

Wow… I didn’t know that having internet can totally disconnect you from the world ;). We are finally moved in and internet was installed this evening.

The move went pretty good, just glad its over and it did land me in the emergency room Sunday night. I am doing much better though and back on the mend. Ready to go full force again.

Glad to be back and get all caught up with all the moms. I have missed you all!

On The Move Again

June 18, 2008 by Jennifer 5 Comments

I feel like that title has been my song description of my life since year 2008 has began. With the moves from Florida to NC, then NC back to Florida times 2, needless to say I am tired of the moving and the stress that comes with moving.

I do have to say I am finally excited to have my family back again under our own roof and be a family again instead of us living at my mom and dad’s.

Hubbs and my dad are in Florida now at our house loading up all our stuff for the moving truck. Then it will be on to this beautiful outlook each and every day. I know the girls are going to have a blast on these hills 🙂

Please wish us luck and pray for us this will all go well and we can finally be settled and have a less stressful life going on.

Beautiful Nature Being Born Right Before Our Eyes

June 4, 2008 by Jennifer 10 Comments

What a fun evening we had right here on our front porch! For the past week, we have been waiting for the eggs to hatch. They finally did TODAY.

You see the bird decided to make nest right in one of my mom’s welcome home signs hahaha. Everytime I would walk out on the porch the mommy bird would dart out right in front of me. Scared me every time.

She would usually sit atop the roof and wait for the path to clear and then finally fly into the nest.

The girls were so amazed and intrigued by the little birdies birth. We really had a neat experience talking them through of what they just witnessed. It seemed like every 5 or 10 minutes they wanted to check in on how they were doing. The mommy bird would keep going to get food and bringing it back to the 5 babies and the girls would just crack up when the bird would drop the food into the birdies mouths.

Makes you appreciate nature even more!

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