Garden

This is what Brett and I have been doing the past 2 months (mostly Brett). I am afraid we got a bit over our heads. We have planted WAY more than we will ever be able to eat. It will be fun if something will actually produce. We've planted corn, squash, zucchini, tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, onions, potatoes, lettuce, cilantro, basil, carrots, asparagus, cantaloupe, honeydew, grapes, green beans, cucumbers, and peach trees. Everything is growing really good right now but I am worried about how we will keep it alive once it gets hot. It is going to be a lot of work but it will be worth it when we are putting garden tomatoes on our sandwiches this summer. Ummm....my mouth is watering!

West Garden

East Garden

Random pictures

Here are just a few pictures to show what we have been up to lately:

We made chef hats for the girls (they like to play "restaurant" lately).

The girls have also been 'training' Rollie for the dog olympics. They have him going down the slide, jumping through the hula-hoop, and climbing on top of his dog house.

Collecting dead snails from our yard-YUCK!

Pre-school field trip to the fire station.



Building traps for the pirates. Here is our tiger pit (Swiss Family Robinson style).

I feel sorry for any pirates who come around here!

Your secret is safe with us!

Brett recently had a birthday and the girls and I were very excited to give him The Office on DVD. We had everything wrapped and they were doing well at keeping the secret until one Thursday night at dinner Brett asked, "is there a new episode of The Office on tonight?"

Saige spoke right up and said, "Hey Mom, remember Dad's birthday present?"

Brett got a big smile on his face and asked, "what is is?"

Madi said, "we'll NEVER tell"!

This is extra funny because of what happened around Christmas time. Amazon was having a really good sale on their games right after Thanksgiving. I bought the game Blokus for Brett because I knew that he liked it. The girls and I wrapped it and put it under the tree.

A few days before Christmas, Brett took the girls to Target and to pick out something for me. They wandered the aisles for awhile and came up on the games and toys. Brett picked up Blokus from off of the bottom shelf, held it up and said, "how about this one?"

Madi got a sick look on her face and said, "No. You can't dad."

"Why not?"

"Because you just can't"

"But mom likes this game-why can't we get it for her?"

"I can't tell, but you just can't. Because... because... because...we got it for you and we already wrapped it."

Brett said that you could see it in her eyes that she was struggling with the decision to tell him or not because she had promised me that she wouldn't tell him what his present was.

So, if you have a big secret, think twice before telling these two. They will have good intentions of keeping it but sometimes when you are 5 you let it out accidentally!