Let it grow!

The garden is beginning to grow. I was thrilled when I went to water today and I saw beans, peas, lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, green onions, onions, and garlic growing away. Hopefully, the rest of it starts to grow soon!

Here is my organic lettuce mix. It's getting bigger! Since it was my first attempt, it got it's own little bed.

Here is the main garden. You can't see the raspberry bushes, they are just off the bottom of the picture. Going from the bottom to the top of the picture is beans, regular cabbage, chinese cabbage, peas, sugar snap peas, carrots, onions, potatoes, tomatoes (hothouse, cherry, and pear), peppers (green bell, jalapeno, and sweet banana), summer squash, speghetti squash, watermelon, sugar pumpkin, jack-o-latern pumpkin, spinach, and iceberg lettuce. Our green onions and garlic are in a seperate bed, and our strawberries and blueberries will be going into yet another bed either tonight or tommorrow.


I can't wait for harvest time!

Saturday Movie Nights

I added a new feature on the side of my blog to track the movies we watch for our "family movie night." We do this every Saturday and it's the girls' favorite night of the week. It involves pizza, treats, a movie, and the whole family together. What can be better than that?

Playdate Pictures

We had ten of the cutest kids ever over today for a playdate. Well - it was Ky, Savvy, and eight of their friends. I took over 50 pictures, but here are a couple. If any of you moms want the full set just let me know. However, a couple kids (cough*HaydenandCarson*cough) ran away whenever they saw the camera, so I have a lot of some and not so many of others. Thanks to everyone who came - the girls and I had soooo much fun!

KYRIE

SAVANNAH

ZACH

PAISLEY




REGAN



TRAVELLER

JAXON

CARSON

HAYDEN


KAITLYN

Seriously, they are so cute! How about we make this a monthly event?

Mommy's little helper

We are soooo lucky (insert note of sarcasm here) - our local grocery store got kid sized shopping carts. Oh, the joy. I was lucky that I only had one of my helpers at the store with me, because otherwise it may have been a level 5 disaster. Savvy wouldn't let me help push, or even guide her cart - so we got up close and personal with just about every display, aisle, cart, and customer in the store. Luckily, everyone just thought she was cute. I did have to agree with them though, she is a charmer.

girl's gardening

See that? That is what the girls were doing while me and Ty were planting in the garden. Since I wasn't handing over the real seeds, they decided to grow a Cheerio tree. That's my kind of gardening.

Field Trip

Today was Ky's end of the year preschool field trip, and luckily her teachers were nice enough to let the whole family tag along. We spent the morning at Hogle Zoo checking out the animals. They loved the bear (named Pudder of course), the peacock, the picnic, the train, the monkeys, the squirrels, and the giraffes.

By far, Ky's favorite part was the carousel. She got to ride a seal, and she waved as it went up and down. She couldn't stop giggling and saying "fun!, Ky, fun!" Her smile lasted the rest of the day.

Savvy's favorite part was the playground. She has gotten very brave since we put in the fort, and she loved the big kid area with the BIG slide. The best part? She kept going down head first. She thought she was so big!

Overall, a very fun family day. I can't believe that Ky only has four preschool classes this year, and next year I will be taking both my girls to school. They really do grow up too fast.

Yummy, Yummy!

Today has been rainy, and it's been hard being inside all day! So, we spent a big portion of it making a fun dinner. The girls helped me make hamburger buns and potato salad. The girls favorite was helping with the fruit salad. The each got a plastic knife, and cut up the bananas all by themselves. They couldn't wait for Daddy to get home to see their yummy dinner masterpiece.