April 2016

On the way home from school one day

Working on some stuff on my computer for Jackson's birthday party and these silly boys are distracting me!

My new favorite breakfast. Jackson calls it an openface. Toast with avocade, fried egg, bacon and siracha

Jimmy and I got to sneak away and watch the final day of the Master's Golf Tournament.

I had to snap a picture of him talking on the phone to Nana. He was all smiles.

At Mumford & Sons concert. What an incredible show!

We invited some friends over to grill out and the kids were so excited about their ice cream cones for dessert

Jackson has been building lots of houses with his Lincoln Logs.

My sweet sweet Annabelle snuggling me while I'm trying to make Jackson's birthday invites

We've had this kinetic sand for a while but honestly it made such a mess inside I hated to get it out for the boys to play with. I decided one day they could do it outside on the deck and it was fabulous! I didn't even care if they dropped any or made a big mess. I could clean it up much easier out there! Jackson was making snowmen.

After tennis lessons one day my friend Ryann took the kids to get an early dinner. Storms started rolling in and within about 5 min of this picture she texted me saying it was pouring on them!

I have such amazing friends! While Ryann takes Jackson to tennis, Kylie took Camden to swim lessons. He and Torsten go to the same instructor so it was convenient!

Jackson snuggled and slept in bed with us one night :)

We finally got a bed for the basement and I was busy picking out bedding and such! Still need a headboard and side tables but its a start.

Planted my garden and I am excited to see how things grow this year

Cucumbers and pole beans

Watermelons and Pumpkins

Mini Pumpkins and carrots

Another day with daddy another nap in the car for Jackson! He seems to always fall asleep with Jimmy in the Jeep or the BMW.

Ready for swim lessons!

End of the season doughnuts

Despite this face he really did enjoy the doughnut!

Yard and Garden Summer 2015

Jimmy built a garden for me this past spring and I planted it in April. I was very ambitious and was wanting to experiment with what I could grow. I had cucumbers, bush beans, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, cantaloupe, pumpkins, squash, zucchini, lettuce, basil, and a selection of herbs. I didn't have luck with everything.

 In this middle of him building the boxes. We utilized some empty space on a hill so he had to dig and set the boxes in the hill and make sure they were level and all. He did a fantastic job!

I planted all my flower beds and pots on the deck, driveway, and front patio

 We had some new front landscaping put in and did new flower beds, azaleas, lorepetalum, seasonal beds, grasses. And doesn't the grass look great?! Jimmy does such an awesome job maintaining our yard!

One of my flower pots in the driveway

 Panoramics of the backyard

Just after planting. Back box has cucumber plants, bush bean seeds, squash, dill and peppers. Front box has cantaloupe, zucchini, herbs, marigolds and more peppers

 pumpkin seeds in the back box, tomatoes, marigolds and potatoes in the front right

After a few weeks everything is sprouting and growing!

Potato plants

Baby squash

Cucumbers growing

Roma tomato and cherry tomato I picked

After a few more weeks

The pumpkin plants keep flowering but then the flowers are falling off and the plants start dying.

While my neighbor Christy was out of town I went to water and check her garden. One day I picked this. The zucchini was hiding - can you believe how big it was? I had to hold my arm up to it so you can really tell.

My fingerling potatoes I harvested!

Roasted fingerling potatoes - they were delicious!

Our gorgeous yard

The plants kept growing and I picked many bunches of green beans, started getting some cucumbers and lots of tomatoes. My squash and zucchini plants didn't do too well :(

Overall it was a good start to having my own garden. Some days it got too much water and other not enough. It's hard when we are out of town multiple times in the summer! Towards the end we got the sprinkler system changed so it would hit the garden as well.