Grandma Weekend

Grandma Barbara came to visit us this weekend! While Grandma was here, we enjoyed celebrating Savannah's birthday, participating in the annual sweet potato bagging event, and playing at the park.

Grandma Barbara with Savannah (9) and Hadley (3)

Savannah was excited to open her birthday gifts from Grandma Barbara, which included some money, several dresses, and gymnastics clothes:

On Saturday morning, the five of us went to a local church, where we joined an estimated 300 volunteers in bagging 40,000 lbs of sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes were grown on former NFL player Jason Brown's First Fruits Farm near Louisburg, NC. He follows the Bible by donating the first fruits of his crop to hunger relief in our community. The bags of sweet potatoes will be picked up by dozens of food pantries in central NC.

Before we arrived, a semi had dumped several large piles of sweet potatoes in the church parking lot:

In each bag, we put 7-8 sweet potatoes, so the bag was about the size of a basketball:

Then, Tal tied the bags...

...and added them to the pile of sweet potatoes, so volunteers could load them into the truck:

The sweet potato pile was almost as tall as Savannah!

Tal and his mom

Tal, Hadley, Savannah, and Grandma Barbara

After 1.5 hours, we were done bagging the sweet potatoes!

Savannah and Hadley enjoyed climbing the big hill behind the church:

When we were done bagging sweet potatoes, we played at the park in our neighborhood:

Zip Line