How Does Your Garden Grow??

We've got quite a start to our "little" garden. It's much bigger than I thought we'd start out with, but it will be fun to see what comes out of it. I've only ever had a small flower bed garden, but I have somewhat of a green thumb, so I figure if I can keep even half of it alive and producing, it will all be worth it. Here are pics of what it looks like so far. We don't have any kind of fence around it just yet, hopefully the critters will stay out of it for now. There's no chance of it getting mowed over, since we don't even have grass yet! Anyone know where I can get sweet potatoes to plant??? Traci, anything you want to put in, let me know, there's still room! Next year, We will have a fence around it and I plan to do a cut flower garden around the outside, so I will have fresh flowers AND fresh veggies.

So far, we have planted garlic, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, banana peppers, asparagus, strawberries, potatoes, beans of all kinds, corn, okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, carrots, spinach .... I think that's it so far. Some of them have been plants or root stock, most of them seeds so it's just now getting where they are coming up. Hopefully everything will sprout!



The onions have taken off!




Potato sprouts


Garlic


We have three rows of corn popping up


This picture doesn't really help with size, but the plot is about 40 feet long and 25 feet wide, quite a bit of room and it will probably get bigger next year!

Home Updates

Our house is coming along nicely, our texturing will start tomorrow and painting this weekend!! Won't be long now! I did manage to get Dennis to agree on blue for the living room and tan for the rest of the house to break up some of the monotone, so I'm excited to see how it turns out. We've got quite a garden started out there and lots of room for more. It's fun to see seeds starting to finally come up, even the potatoes have sprouted! I thought they'd rotted, but so far, they're doing good. I think this nice 80 degree weather will help this week. I'll have to take a before pic to remember where we started when it's all tall and green in June!

On another subject, Cooper has figured out how to get out of his bed (aka pack n play). I'm not really sure how, but he figured it out Sunday morning, so now it's impossible to get him to stay in it if he really doesn't want to be there!

Happy Easter

Our Easter celebrations began on Thursday. Cooper had his KDO Easter party, which consisted of a million eggs scattered in the gym floor and a bunch of 1 and 2 year olds putting them in baskets as fast as possible... except for Cooper, who found the first car, picked up the four around it and hopped in to take a drive.




We went to Holy Thursday service at church that evening. On Friday, it was time to visit Mamaw & Papaw, and Papaw insisted that Cooper stay the night, so of course, he did. Who wouldn't say no to a quiet evening?!? So, Dennis and I went to Good Friday service and took a scenic drive out to Sequoyah State Park, which we seldom do these days with a toddler in tow. Saturday, Sasha and I decided to take the kids to Bass Pro for their egg hunt, which we pretty much did, but the kids enjoyed being carted around the store and the Easter bunny pictures are cute. Grandma and Grandpa Rains came over Saturday evening and we had dinner and of course, the highlight of the evening, letting Cooper entertain us! It rained yesterday all day, so no outside stuff. We went to Dennis's brother's house to have family dinner and Cooper loves to play with his cousins, because they are all so "big" to him, especially the teenage boys, they are really tall! I didn't even think to take any pictures there, had my camera, but i guess I was too busy catching up with everyone. Cooper's trucks from the Easter bunny were a big hit, it was all i could do to get him in bed without them last night! What a wonderful celebration of our risen Savior!

Cute Stuff

I've been working on some scarves on my knitting loom and Cooper thinks it really fun to try them on for me.


Cooper had to line all his stuffed animals up just right and sit with them to "read" one of his favorite books


Want a bite??

Walls!!

We've really seen progress at our place! It's so nice to go out everyday and there's something happening! There is actually more done than these pictures, you can't see through the rooms now, just a little bit left. Sheetrock is almost all up and mud and tape should start this week!

Building Updates

Our house is coming along nicely now! We got our sheetrock, insulation, and doors delivered yesterday afternoon and Dennis started putting up the insulation. Looks like within a week, we could have walls!! As you can see, our cabinets are sitting inside, we've had them for a little while, we got ahead of ourselves, I just hope we ordered the flooring in good time so we don't have to wait on it! Cooper likes hanging out at the shop already. We went out to see the progress after naptime yesterday and he loved sitting on top of the sheetrock pile. We're really ready to get moved in, but it's getting much closer!

An Applesauce a Day....

Cooper loves his applesauce! I think he'd eat only that all the time if I'd let him. It's one of the things that he actually will eat without throwing the spoon and it's fun to watch him. I still have to help him load his spoon a little, but he does really good. He's such a big boy!