Sunday, August 12, 2012

The Garden

Our garden this year has been a very big experiment. You see, this year my sister Amy used her garden lights to plant a ton of flowers for me. Every single flowers was tenderly cared for before we brought it to our house for it's final home.

This first picture is of the sun flowers. They are only about 3 feet tall with fluffy yellow blooms. I love them and so do the bees. In between these sunflowers we planted some mini pumpkins.


These are my snapdragons and daisy's. I'm pretty sure I will always have a special spot for multi-colored snapdragons.

This is the other side of the front walkway. We planted all sorts of flowers and they have become a giant hodgepodge of flowers. It's fun to which ones are blooming on any given day. Most of these got a lot taller then we ever thought they would.


These are some marigolds and cucumbers in the backyard. I don't feel like we utilized the space very well. Ah well, we've already gotten multiple cucumbers off these two bushes.


These are my tomato plants and they make me happy. They have grown so well and they are so amazingly tall. We are now starting to harvest tomatoes and Peter eats them as fast as I can pick them. I really love the support cages that we bought for them. They have worked out really well.

 

These next few pictures are just a sample of the many flowers we've had. They are actually my favorite flowers. I think it would be pretty if I planted only pink and white flowers next year. LOL, I guess we'll see how that work out.



Love, love, love these poppys. We also had some white ones bloom too which made me happy. 


Friday, August 10, 2012

Firestation Friday

Our weekly neighborhood playgroup took a tour of our local Fire Station today. Oh my gosh, what a lot of fun. Peter loved it and Luke just wanted to get out of the stroller and 'run a much'. The other kids were so respectful and attentive. It was a good review of the things I should be teaching our kids (what to do if they come across matches/lighters, fire drills, not to be afraid of firefighters in their protective gear). Thank you Fire Fighter Ben!

After our tour we walked to some nearby trees and had a little picnic. Peter loves picnics and Luke was just excited that I allowed him to play in the water fountain. What a memorable summer day.