My First Garden

I have finally gotten around to blogging about MY FIRST GARDEN!!!  I am sooo excited to be doing it this year, and Kenny was so wonderful in helping me build a cute, little raised garden.  It took some time to figure out what I wanted to plant seeing that my family doesn't eat anything colorful. (Except Skittles) But I finally narrowed it down to tomatoes, carrots, zucchini, cantaloupe, and red bell peppers.  I had a ton of help from my friend Chandelle, the gardening goddess as I think of her:)  Here are the first pictures of it once we planted the tomatoes.  This was April 15th.

Cute- isn't it!

Here are the strawberries.  I put them in pots, but next year I will do them in the garden!  They seem inhibited in the pots:)

So, here are some pictures on the first day I got produce out of it!  This is May 20th.  You can also see where I added the rest of the plants.
My very first cherry tomato!  Just beautiful!
In order to prove that it was the perfect size I figured I would do a size comparison.
Here are the tomato plants at 4 weeks.
This shows the peppers (the large plants), the cantaloupe (right behind the peppers), and the carrots (the weed-looking ones to the left).

And FINALLY, ...(drumroll please)..., Here are my peppers today (yes, I planted red, but for some reason they are green).


And here are my tomatoes after a serious trimming!  I didn't realize I could trim them and they were taking over my whole garden.  They were as tall as me, and bending over big time.  So I trimmed them and hopefully that helps.  I have gotten around 20-30 cherry tomatoes so far and 1 big one.  I LOVE it!
Ok- yes I admit those are cheap curtain rods you see.  We had these left over from our apartment days and I needed something to help prop up the plants and Kenny was at work.  I tried splitting wood, but I totally messed that up so I improvised!  Not bad huh, they actually work really good.  Next year I will know more and I will absolutely buy the big tomato wire things!
TADA!  My first zucchini!  (Chandelle will be jealous)  It's beautiful, and I have another little one on the way!  I was worried I wouldn't get any, but here we are!
Here's a picture of the garden today- it looks a little wilty because it was like 100 degrees and I had forgotten to water that morning- whoops!

Skills n' Trills

The girls had their skills n' thrills program this last Saturday at gymnastics.  They have been attending for a year, and they absolutely love it!  The best part to me was when they would finish a routine and do their pose at the end with their arms up and their little booties out just like the real gymnasts do:)  I got a few pictures and some videos of their routines, but I just about screamed during their floor routine when my stupid camera's battery died!  ARGH!  I hate technology some times!

Katie is the one in front and Maddie is a few girls behind in the shiny pink and black.

Maddie's Bar Routine:

Katie's Bar Routine:

Maddie's Beam Routine:

Katie's Bar Routine:

Katie's Beam Dismount:

Maddie's Beam Dismount:

Maddie's Floor Routine (Partial)- stupid battery:)

OUCH!

I took the kids to Sonic to join some friends and enjoy some cool refreshments and play time on the playground.  I was sitting talking with friends when I glanced up to check on the kids.  Katie was near me climbing up a twisty type of ladder, when all of a sudden, BAM!  A kid who looked like he was easily 12 swung to go down the ladder without looking and kicked his foot right into Katie's face.  She then proceeded to fall about 5 feet to the ground (which is luckily sand), but not until hitting against the ladder again on the way down.  You can imagine I was NOT happy this.  Not only did I run to make sure Katie was ok, but I wanted to rip that kid off the playground and give him a serious beating.  Of course I didn't do that, however I did yell at him to watch where he was going and that he needed to be more careful since there were alot of little kids around.  I then inspected Katie and found her to have a few scraps, but it didn't look so bad because she was covered in sand.  Once we got home I had her take a shower and we then noticed her war wounds.  It wasn't as bad as I was worried it would be, she ended up with a black eye, some scraps on her face and shoulder and a bruise on her chest area, but she survived.  I think she was just more scared that anything (and that goes double for me)!

Announcement

I guess it's about time I announced this on my blog:)  No- I'm not getting fat- there really is an excuse for the bump:)  These are the only pictures I have so far- not the best, but Kenny thought he was being funny!  I'm due September 23rd, and we will hopefully find out soon what it is!  Let's just say it's going to be a "FUN" summer!

Cole's Birthday Party! AARRGGG!

Cole had a Pirate Birthday Party this year.  He got to invite some friends and they all had a great time playing on the "pirate ship"!

We got them styrofoam swords and they loved attacking any helpless person they could find!
Even the adults got into the spirit of the party:)

Hitting the Pinata!

This next one is probably my favorite picture!  He really seems excited about whomever he was chasing:)  It must have been Kenny.

In the beginning of the party we had hidden treasure chests for each kid, and I made individual maps for them.  Cole really got into this and was following the map to the T!
At one point he started to get a little lost and daddy had to come to the rescue!

Cole said he wanted a pirate ship cake, but he said he wanted cupcakes- so I got creative:)

Mischief

What happens when 2 little boys disappear into an older sisters room and find a stamp pad:

Creative, aren't they!

The Birthday Cake Ghost

Evidently there is a birthday cake ghost that likes to take his fingers and put them into birthday cakes.  I figured I would warn you all.  The finger prints appear to be that of a 4 year old.  The strangest part about it is that mysteriously the birthday boy's fingers and edges of his mouth will turn brown?!?!  Crazy!

Here's a picture of the birthday boy with his newest weapon!