Our Garden

So this year we finally started a garden. Brian and the kids built the boxes in February and we filled them with the right soil in early March, so we had no excuse to not plant. We planted some peas outside in March and planted some more fragile plants inside our house at that time. The pease did well, but growing plants inside was . . . a fiasco. The last straw was when a child accidentlaly bumped into them and everything dumped out. It didn't matter, we picked up some tomato plants in late May and put them in the garden. From here on out, that is probably what we will do.

Here our are two garden boxes with a good variety of plants growing.

Here are the two squares of radishes. Megan REALLY wanted to plant radishes and she was a little generous with the tiny seeds. We thinned and thinned and still ended up with tons. They were also the first veggie ready to pick and eat. See how proud she is of her radish. (A friend told me that our nice cool spring led to them being really sweet. Once it heated up outside, the radishes got really spicy.)

I must say, this is what I am most excited about. I love peas right from the garden. They are so sweet. And our pea plants grew huge, so hopefully we will get lots all summer long.

Yum!

More produce and pictures to come. I think we might actually get a carrot. I have never had a carrot right from my garden before, and it is really looking promising

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Liz's trick

Liz is so proud of this trick! She wasn't able to show it to Grandma Call during her visit, so we recorded it and are posting it here.

Rest assured Grandmas that after the events of early June Liz has agreed to not do this trick anymore. :-)

No more pencils, no more books . . .

So school ended on Friday. But it was much too chilly for our annual water party/BBQ with our friends. So this year we picked the kids up and walked the additional four blocks to a really fun park. (on a side note, this brought back memories of our 1st or second summer living in our house. This same friend and I decided to walk to this park. Between us we had five children, ages 3 and under. WE put two in my double stroller and the big three in the wagon. And we did all of the work getting us there and home. This trip was much easier!) We played and had a picnic. It was a perfect morning and a great way to celebrate the end of another great year!

Megan, loving the slide

Liz and Nathan showed off some skills they honed at recess. (another side note, I am glad I am not their to watch them at recess. I know they are strong and confident, but I prefer to watch this kind of thing knowing that it is their 100th time, not the first.)

This picture of Mike absolutely cracks me up!

Not sure what was going on with Nathan's expression here.the girls hanging out with friends.
Mike and his buddy
The whole crew - Our friends are moving soon. Luckily it isn't too far and hopefully we can continue some form of this tradition next year.