How does your garden grow?

Very well thank you.

We have been blessed to have a little garden plot at a community church. And you might remember this post when we were first starting out, and had just planted some vegetables.

We now have flowers and even little tomatoes, and some cucumbers!! I am so excited about our romaine lettuce, I don't think that I have ever had such fresh romaine!

This garden is going to be such a blessing in our life with all the fresh veggies! I only wish it was in our back yard, but I'll talk what I can get!

Look at all that green!!!

James' little plant

James planted this cucumber plant with such care. I loved watching how gently he planted it.

Happy Gardening

We are renting a house while we are here... that means everything has to look the same as we found it... even the yard. The dirt here isn't dirt anyway, it's sand. So rather than truck in rich black dirt and then have to replace it with sand again when we leave. We found out that a local church in our neighborhood opened up some plots for the community. So we are the happy land owners of a 5'x12' garden.

There was a $20 registration fee and that was it. The plants were donated and the compost and the fertilizer all we have to do is work our little area. So we pulled weeds and turned the soil and got our area ready.

Tommy and Tim and Benjamin went with Aunt Michelle and Uncle Brian while James wanted to come with us and try his hand at working the land. He did really well and was a big help.

We planted tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach, squash, cabbage, onions, peppers, and lettuce. {beans, and strawberries to go in soon}

Our row of soon to be bottled tomatoes!

I really enjoyed watching James and his dad working together. The husband showed James how to get the plants out of the containers and how to put them in the ground really carefully. Together they got all the tomatoes in the ground.

I'm crossing my fingers for a good harvest, one where I don't kill everything. Here's to hoping.

Out with the OLD, and in with the NEW!

My birthday was the end of March... (the 28th to be exact, and I'm still accepting gifts of any kind, and will be for the next year or so) Anyway I've been telling Steve that wanted a new camera. The little one that we had was taking blurry pictures. It was taking a long time to load up and then to store the picture. It was one of those things that I would take a picture, and then the look I wanted, or the boys were being cute (finally) and by the time the camera laded up the moment (or the boys) were gone. So here you go.

The old.

And now the NEW!!!

It's a Nikon 40D camera. And I LOVE it. It's nice to see something and have it come out in the pictures that I'm taking. So here are some that I have been taking.

Here are the boys playing in a fort of blankets under a table.

I loved taking pictures before this, but now I think I'm obsessed! You'll be seeing a lot more pictures. (like you haven't already.)

Ok, so I love a bargain!! I found little plastic Tee Ball sets for $1.50 after Christmas and I bought them to save for the warm days. Well we've hit them so I got them down for the boys. I took a ton of pictures but this was the best one, and totally tells a story of accomplishment.

Here is Steve flipping pizza for our "Pizza and Movie Friday"

Those that knew Steve in Utah could call him Farmer Brown. Well, he's at it again. With our small yard we had to be really creative with planting. So we have tomatoes in planter in the front yard, and just one row in the back yard. This includes peas, peppers, and corn. With a pumpkin in one corner and a watermelon in the other corner. Here are some pictures of my farmers.

So there you go. I'm so far from being anything professional but I like pretending to think I am. It was fum to watch the boys plan the garden. I hope we have a good growing season. I do know one thing that grows great in Arizona. Well maybe just in our neighborhood. And that is asphalt and cinder blocks. Yup, this is what Steve pulled out of the dirt!!!