oh my girls...

So daddy and Henry are out fishing for the first time on the boat and the girls and I are hanging at home. You know I would have never known how much I enjoy having girls. I never would have thought I would say that. I thought I would was going to have a ton of boys back in the day and I was totally fine with that. But God surprised me :) and dropped three sweet girls right snack in the middle of our family. They are so fun! Boy oh boy I am blessed!

Sitting pretty!

Sweet girl can sit all my herself now and play :)

gardening con't...

I just wanted to finish documenting the rest of the planting thus far. I love looking at where they all started out at when they are all in bloom and growing.

This is my knockout rosebush that I got for mothers day. It is a beautiful very healthy one :)

Our corner bed, with blue/purple new wave petunias around the rose. They will get really big a bright :) Oh and my braided daffodil greens. They were looks very straggly.

This is my Mandivilla :) It's my fav flower. I love the flower the leaves, everything about it!

And the state of my raised be as of today... but just wait....

And it begins :)

So I have finally begun to get my veggies and flowers in the ground. This is a huge feat since A) I have done it during the week with the kids awake :) and B) I scaled back my original plan because let's be honest I had grand plans but no experience. I decided it was not the wisest thing to do a HUGE garden. So this is now what I have.

I am most excited about my tomatoes :) I LOVE tomatoes and there is NOTHING like garden fresh heirloom tomatoes in my opinion. So I opted to try four different varieties to see what I like best and what will grow best for me. I also had to change my growing plan. Our back yard is so weird. There is hardly any full sun anywhere. We have lots of huge trees and then cast some major shade with this spring/summer sun. So the most sunny place or the babies was on our deck. I have read A LOT about planting. Any many many gardeners have had lots of luck just using 5 gallon buckets rather than expensive planters. So that is what I did. I bought four $2 buckets and drilled about a dozen small holes in the bottom. I put small pebbles in the bottom to make sure it drained well as well as setting them up on bricks. Filled it with a mixture of good potting soil and composted manure. Got them planted and watered really well. So now all I have to do is get some fertilizer and I will be set :) Hopefully they will do well... we will see!

This is my Better Boy... bought it at Lowes hence it looking a bit better than the rest.

This is my Rutgers. It's a good canning tomato and I have high hopes of getting a few can's of them done this season.

This is my Old Fashioned Goliath. Should produce big yummy sandwich slicer tomatoes.

I am missing a photo of my Cherry Tomatoes... but they are there too :) I purchased the latter three and the agricultural department of the high school out here. Every spring their classes start lots of flowers and veggies from seed and then sell them.

And this is my Sweet Basil.

I can not wait to get these babies in the ground. The bigger plants are my three Everbearing Strawberry bushes. The other smaller plants are my Bush Cucumbers and my Crookneck squash. Hopefully this evening Kyle can complete my floating raised bed and I can get them in the ground.

I just had to share these. This was one of my mothers day gifts along with my rosebush that I still need to photograph. I forget what they are called but they are beautiful!!! The photos really don't do them justice but I love them!

More to come!......

Mothers Day.....

I had a wonderful mothers day! How blessed are Kyle and I that we have both our mom's to celebrate this day with!? I just hated that we Kyle didn't get a pic of Sue and him, all of our mama's are so special.

love this day because there is nothing more that I'd rather be right now than a mom. It is the HARDEST most demanding job that one could have and it is SUCH a blessing. I am well aware everyone can not have what I have. I feeling extreamly blessed to have my family, my children. So on this day I remember that behind Kyle and I are two very amazing mama's that helped us to be what we are today. And I pray we can be that to our children, that I can be the mama that God wants me to be.

yep she's got my heart.... well 1/5 of it anyway :)

Lily's first fishing trip

Our church put on a family fishing day at their retreat center in Indiana. We took the two big kids and they had to much fun. It was Lily's first fishing experience and I'm happy to say it went well. She was SUPER excited about her pink fishing pole! And she really wanted to catch a fish, only she didn't want to leave the worm in the water :) lol she would reel it in saying "I want to catch a big fish" over and over. :) they had a great time. Thankful for a church who sees the importance of family time and experience's and invests in them!