red & black on her back

We spend our afternoons catching these little ladies...

Emma is just plain fascinated with them.

We catch them in the unoccupied fields by our house. We pick wildflowers there too.

The little ladybugs crawl all over Emma, and she just loves it. Catching them is like therapy :)

I have these in my front yard, and they are growing pretty well.

Although I am wishing that I had all of these colors...so pretty. I probably should have bought them at the Strawberry Farm, but I didn't.

After we catch the ladybugs, we release them into our vegetable garden.

Which is growing too...

We've got squash, zucchini, cucumber, pepper and tomato blossoms.

We catch frogs too.

Emma just loves that too.

But don't let the bugs and frogs fool ya. She catches them in her sparkle shoes with skinned up legs :)

And Buddy just does his very own thing...

I love his little chunky legs :)

Here's three shots of Miss Emma...

And let's not forget Sunshine...

I hope y'all are enjoying your green grass, ladybugs, frogs, and the garden. Minus the Zyrtec, Claritin, and Alavert, we certainly are :)

On Saturday Afternoon

This is where you will find us...

Cheering on this sweet little girl...

Buddy cheers her on too, but mostly he just eats.

They play hard for a good hour...

Buddy usually does a pretty good job at hanging in there. He's pretty laid back.

And Miss Emma is just precious. I love her to pieces.

This is her favorite little friend on the team.

And here are the rest of the cuties...

We finish each game with a parent archway for the kiddos to run through...

And a 1, 2, 3 "CHEETAHS!"

Buddy was pretty excited about our morning on the way home...

Then, both of our kiddies take an AMAZING afternoon nap :)

A Pickin' We Shall Go

I loaded up Buttercup & Sunshine and headed here...

This was Emma's berry first pick of the day...

And into the bucket it went.

The berries were just beautiful and GIGANTIC! I think we went a bit earlier in the season this year, so it was much less picked over.

We had this little guy in tow, and he's mobile now, so I set my expectations pretty low for the morning.

It didn't take him long to figure out that leaning out of the wagon+grabbing something red=something pretty darn delicious.

Miss Emma did a great job at filling her bucket.

I was relying on her for most of our pickings...

Mainly because I was dealing with this little guy.

Oh my goodness did he eat some strawberries. Thank heavens I thought to bring his bib.

Attempt 1 at a "together photo."

This is my favorite shot of the day...

Needless to say, Sunshine enjoyed his pickins.

That might just be an understatement.

We met friends at the farm, which is always fun...

And here's attempt #2 at a "together photo." Photoshop anyone?

I gave up and let him do his thing. My what a difference a year makes. This was our trip to the farm last year. Our little buddy was just two months old then :)

We finished up our morning with a couple of touristy photo ops...

Together Photo Attempt #3...a no go. again.

Emma ended her outing with sausage on a stick, while I used every wipe known to existence to clean Sunshine up. I went home with two buckets of fresh strawberries, homegrown veggies, and two of the berry best kids, complete with little red-stained lips. No jam this year....we ate them all! We can't wait to go back next year...or maybe I can convince Rob to go with us this season :)