Our song

Garden

I haven't had a garden in years.  I have been too busy being pregnant, tending to babies, and chasing toddlers...until now!  This year, the boys aren't needing my constant attention and I felt up to the challenge of gardening.  We tried to come up with a plan based on what we knew we would eat.  Strawberries were at the top of the list so we carved out a good patch and planted our little starters.  We are looking forward to actually seeing the fruit of our labor next summer!  We also planted cucumbers, lettuce, bell peppers, carrots, green beans and tomatoes.  I did not have very high expectations. I don't exactly have a green thumb, but wouldn't you know, everything grew!  Here is a little collage of the progress.

I'm very excited to be eating fresh veggies from my very own backyard garden and we realized quickly that we will have more than enough for our family alone so it has been fun sharing with family and neighbors!  Jacob even set up a "cucumber stand" to try and thin out our ever-growing supply of  cukes.

18 cucumbers for sale fresh from the garden.

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

Mom, someone is coming!

You can always count on G.G. (My grandma). She was the first customer and bought ten!

My handsome salesman.  Who could pass up a pickle from this boy?

Around Here

We are having quite the summer.  Remember when I said I wanted to do better about blogging and not go so long between posts?  I still do and maybe one of these days I actually will.  Until then I will just have to keep playing catch up with my few and far between posts.

The boys did the bike rodeo.  The huge bonus was that they got to do it with their buddy William!  They all did so great and they barely noticed that they didn't get trophies when they all had medals hanging around their necks:)

We've been hanging with these guys lots.  I don't know what we'd do without cousins to play with, and these ones here are some of the best you can come by! 

                                                                                    
Let's hear it again for the cousins.  Seriously cute if I do say so myself!

We've done a little camping (minus staying overnight in a tent...I know, we are wimps).

A little picnic-ing. In our own backyard even:)

We went to the beach!

We've been getting many, many "gun shows" from this one.

We've had lots of bare-chested boy days.

This one got tubes in his ears.

I braved the park with this crew one day.  Six boys, seven and under!  Oh the adventures!

We shared ice cream cones with this cutie pie cousin. Couldn't you just eat him up?!

So could Colin.

The days have been hot here and the boys play hard.  I don't have to try too hard to wear them out.  They do a great job of that themselves. 

We still have some summer left but I'm already feeling myself wishing it would last longer.