Stop and smell the roses with me!

Don bought me some more roses today at the same nursery. We have to weed tomorrow before we can plant them. Luckily we don't live in Lynden or we wouldn't be allowed to do it. HAHA Anyhow, I held one out for Brock to "smell" and he actually did. He kept pointing to the ones he wanted me to hold down so he could smell them. In the picture with his eyes closed he was actually taking a huge sniff and enjoying it. We should all learn to take pleasure in simply smelling the roses.

Veggies are in!

We headed to our favorite nursery out on Peoria Road near where we've gone the past couple years to get our plants today and got our veggies. We realized this morning that last year we planted our garden May 28 and here it is June 21 and we're hoping we didn't mess up but hopefully God's grace covers gardens too.

We planted seven peppers around our beautiful Maple tree!

There are five tomato plants around our Periwinkle plant and one little basil plant!

Three more tomato plants between the ivy and some other unknown flowery thing.

On the back we planted four cucumber plants, two burpless and two slicing. In the front we ventured into watermelon so we'll see it's our first year with them.

In front of our huge butterfly plant we put a couple pumpkins also a new one for us. Could be interesting.
Don said he thought it looked like we were signaling ufo's with our garden. I'll keep you updated. We love going out every day and seeing all that's grown. Now we have to pray for low water bills =)

ALL DONE

Okay this last little bit took us two hours and I had to get out the big shovel and actually dig down to get the grass that had overtaken one area. It is 80 outside and Morgan and Cale helped but we all complained of sweating to death but hallelujah we're finished. We have the added incentive of ice cream cones by Don if we finished today and we did!! We also got a coupon for Kmart and went and bought ourselves yet another slip and slide. With the sale we bought two so we should be set for at least a month =). Enjoy I might after I take a shower. Thanks to my kids for helping, now we get to plant our veggies YEAH!

It's 11:05AM look what we've done

Okay I have to brag the three older kids and I started at 9:30am and worked until 11 and so far here are the fruits of our labor, we have a little outing planned for part of the afternoon and hopefully we can finish the weeding after that. I will post the rest of the after pictures when we're done. Thanks for the encouragement Tammy I guess it's kind of like running you begin to enjoy it after while.

What a big boy!

Ty is going to be embarassed eventually by this one but I had to share it. I have a little daycare girl that sleeps in a playpen during her nap in Morgan's room. I forgot to put it away yesterday so when I went to check on Morgan last night low and behold look who I found in the playpen. I wish he was still small enough to fit in there.

Visiting with Fred

A couple months ago we had a new addition to our home named Fred. He is a Western Fence Lizard that hitched a ride on Don's truck from California. We thought we might let him got but it was during the time we had a very cold weather here in Oregon so we got him a little habitat and have been feeding him crickets for the past few months. I refuse to touch him, as he is gross and all being a reptile, but last night Don decided to get him out and let the kids hold him. It was the first time any of them got to do that. Don tried to get Brock to even come near him and he would just laugh and run away, that's my boy. So I wouldn't hold the lizard and the kids said if you don't we're going to tell on you, and they did, they called my mom and told on me. I didn't get in trouble though whew!

Pictures from the yard

I went out this morning and snapped a few pictures of the flowers in our yard. Please excuse the weeds, we have some work to do on that which I will blog about after it is done, I am having anxiety about it for those of you who know how much I HATE to weed (sorry Mary about that word but I do) And Mom can you believe these are the roses that just a couple months ago were about 18 inches high, they are almost five feet tall again and full. Don bought these roses for me last year so now he can say he brings me roses every day. They are so beautiful and have a strong scent so I love to have them in the house. I am going to have to do a before and after of our garden just so I can have someone else enjoy my "labor" besides my family.