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Outdoor Summer Activities

Okay, so it's not all indoor. Of course, we spend as much time as possible outside. The kids are mostly inside when I'm on a work call and outside the rest of the time. Our garden is going nuts. The tomatoes are crazy and the strawberries are sweet, and the green beans just came in and they are soooo good. We love playing in the backyard with friends... And in other people's backyards too. Like this one. We did some trail riding this week and invited one of JT's school friends along. It was tough and we were all sweaty after we were done. I think I was even a little sore! Haley got a huge blister on her thumb and powered through until the end, when she just needed to be done. It broke open and looked ugly! The boys wisely decided to park their bikes and walk this bridge. There's a metaphor here for progress. And blooming where you're planted... out of my garden, little slug. I've also been enjoying my new small ...

Spring Planting

With warmer days final upon us, we enjoyed our weekend with baseball, time outside with friends, and planting our garden! I trimmed the faltering daffodils down and brought home 32 strawberry starts. We also grounded four tomato starts (three grape, one heirloom). We added some sunflowers in the very back row for good measure! Then Haley and I finished off with our garden box with seeds for blue pole beans, lettuce, and carrots. Then we marked them all with this pretty garden sticks. :) We hope the warmer weather continues! Walter Kelly from Q13 weather is predicting a warmer-than-average summer... we'll see.