RED:
the color of my face after running my first post-pregnancy 5K. Turns out July is NOT the best month to run a race in downtown Shreveport...who knew??? I ran with friends from our ward and we were quite the site with three adults pushing three kids in three strollers. I felt like Andre the Giant in Princess Bride: Evwybody MOVE!!!
Judd & Brooke, Me & Caleb, Amy & Rylan
WHITE:
The color of David's official 2nd year doctor's coat complete with personalized embroidery. When you're a first year, they don't waste money having your name embroidered on your coat since the mortality rate is so high. Now I guess he's worth the extra $2:)
BLUE:
The color of the berries we picked in the mid-day sun from Shuqualak Farms (pronounced "sugar lock").
I had never picked blueberries before and learned a couple valuable lessons after our first time:
1)a fancy holster on which to clip your bucket works better than orange twine wrapped around your waist (that's what we used when picking raspberries in the summer as kids). As the orchard owner said in reference to the holster, "That there'll turn you right inta a TWO handed picka!" And that it DID.
2)at mid-day in Louisiana in July it's near impossible to keep yourself from overheating while picking blueberries and 7 month old babies don't appreciate being dragged along for the adventure...until they get their first taste of a blueberry popsicle which makes everything better.
Our attempt to cool Caleb off (note the battery-operated fan attached to the stroller canopy...also note the great scarecrow in the background:)
On a more serious note, we have made friends with many people who are stationed at the air force base here and our appreciation for all those who sacrifice for our freedom has increased tremendously. Thank you for protecting our red, white, and blue!
11 comments:
I'm glad that you got to run a 5K! I "ran" a 5K about 2 months ago. I really only ran 1.5 miles and walked the rest. Well, I was happy about that because I hadn't ran in about a year and a half before that.
What an adventure! Shreveport is still in our country, right? haha!!!
What a great post! Congrats on running the 5K too!
Uh how do you pronounce the name on David's jacket... what happened to ENT? and appartantly you have to be bilingual in LA, thanks for the tranlation on the farm name... oh we miss you!!!!
Great post! I love the red, white and blue myself... And the orange twine, oh, the orange twine. What can you say about that? Glad they have more improved methods these days!
Any short cuts in the race--or do you run Old School style, and finish the whole thing fair and square??
Love the last picture with his tongue peeking out. It reminds me of KK as a baby. Bravo for not passing out in the heat- and keeping your vision ;)
Congrats on the 5K! That's awesome! Sung and I want to do one together some day. Love the post :)
Mmmm...we could almost taste those berries over here :)
Nice Jenny! See you soon :)
You're a champ. Where are you? Post something current.
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