Scrumdidlyumptious...

I just had a scrumptious salad tonight with dinner, thanks in part to the beautiful yellow and red tomatoes I pulled out of MY GARDEN!!!  I've been taking pictures of the progress of my garden, but haven't been real great at posting them (no surprise) - but really, the after product is the best picture anyway!!!  It's a far cry from my attempt last year!!!  :)

10 on 2sday

1.  Brynn opens doors now.  We've been enjoying our time up until now just waiting until they finally figured it out.... I was hoping that nap and bed time in their big girl beds would be so routine, that by the time they figured out how to open doors it wouldn't be an issue coming out of their rooms at those times.  Not so.

2.  It's creepy.  Brynn is my stealthy child.  One day after nap she opened her door without me hearing it, so when I started walking towards the bedrooms and saw a small child standing in the hallway, I got a little creeped out...

3.  The other problem with Brynn opening doors...  she is the one that leaves the room, and she closes the door behind her leaving a screaming, upset Avery behind...  oh the life with twins...

4.  Potty training sucks.  It was miserable with Evan, and I'm not looking forward to it with the girls.  Avery asks me all the time to go sit on the toilet and go potty.  Some times I oblige, other times I try to change the subject.  She never actually does anything, she just likes to play around in the bathroom.

Until one day.

She peed.

Then she decided she no longer wanted to wear a diaper.  So we went and bought big girl panties.  I washed them.  I dried them.  I pulled a pair out of the dryer for Avery and she put them on immediately.  That lasted about 30 seconds and then she took them off, handed them back to me and said "ah done!"

5.  Speaking of being "ah done," I've been considering buying stock in bandaids these days at the rate in which Avery goes through them.  Evan has never wanted anything to do with bandaids.  Avery LOVES them.  Brynn is completely indifferent.

6.  Evan's filter is broken... or just non-existent.  He has been pointing out (literally) physical characteristics of strangers that non-5-year-olds would find rather rude and offensive.  *insert large sigh right here*

7.  Evan's last t-ball game was tonight.  Me and the girls didn't go.  Partly because his game crossed over their bedtime.  Mostly because it's too much work keeping them out of trouble...

8.  We finally got our fence fixed!! 

9.  If you need pumpkins this fall... plan to come to my house...

10.  I've been making some changes to my photography blog... slowly... I also recently did my first newborn session, and LOVED how it turned out!!

My garden update

I really had high hopes for a nice "garden."

Well, maybe not that high since I started small, and in POTS:

I was so excited to share an update when my "garden" looked like this:

That was around the end of July, and I just never got around to posting the pictures...

Then THIS happened:

That was maybe a week ago or so.  All the rain, nasty heat, and bugs took a major toll on my "garden." 


And it went from this:

to this:

It was almost painful to upload and post these pictures.  I was just so proud of myself when everything was lush and green and growing... pride... just gets in the way...

Either that or maybe I'm just not a gardener...

But I DID get two peppers and 5 tomatoes before the plants took a turn for the worst, and I'm still holding out a little hope that the tomatoes still on the plants will do ok - but the pepper plant is gone.

Better luck next year maybe?

My very first garden

I did it!

I started a vegetable "garden".

I figure I've read enough blogs with people talking about their vegetable gardens, that I'm inspired to try it myself.  Actually, I just really like the idea of living on the earth...

Despite the fact I spent the first 12 years of my life around plants at my parents nursery business, I have no idea what I am doing when it comes to planting a vegetable garden.

I started small.

Very small.

We actually have raised beds in our yard from previous owners. 
But it's gonna take a lot of work to prep the area and clear all the grass and random yard clippings before it's ready to plant anything.  I'm hoping to get it cleared out, but I'm not holding my breath.

Scary, huh?

I even have a little head start on one of the pepper plants.

Oh goodness, wish me luck.

Seriously, no idea.