My wonderful mom turned 60 today. Happy birthday Mom! We celebrated in her backyard tonight with a wonderful German chocolate cake made by Chip.
Here are the girls playing dolls at Mimi's house (my mom). They can spend hours in her spare room (soon to be my grandma's room) playing house.
Our nice neighbor's gave us a slip-and-slide last week and yesterday we got it out for the girl's first time ever on one. They loved it but couldn't quite figure out that they needed to really drop and "slip" in order to really slide, so Shane had to toss them down the slide as in the photo below. Chip took these great photos.
Also, last week we harvested the last of our peas and the first carrots and beets. The carrots are perfect and delicious. We've been eating peas for a month now and are getting tired of them! Our freezer is stuffed with 16 bags of snow peas for winter stir-fry's and some spinach from the garden. We ate all the broccoli and chard while it was fresh. We also froze about 9 gallon size bags of strawberries this month and canned enough jam to last us until next June. Unfortunatly my allergies have made it hard for me to spend much time tending to the garden this month, so it is quickly becoming a weedy mess.
The girls holding up our first carrot and beets.
Last week we spent a fun day at a local State Park our good friends, the Ortega's. We went on a long bike ride all over the bike trails, had a picnic and also went Geocaching for the first time. There are Geocache places all over the world and using a GPS and the coordinates found on this website:
www.geocaching.com, we found two "treasure boxes" at this park alone. The idea is that once you find the treasure box you can take a prize and leave a prize for someone else. The kids LOVED this treasure hunt and I think the dad's liked it as much as the kids.
My wonderful mom turned 60 today. Happy birthday Mom! We celebrated in her backyard tonight with a wonderful German chocolate cake made by Chip.
Here are the girls playing dolls at Mimi's house (my mom). They can spend hours in her spare room (soon to be my grandma's room) playing house.
Our nice neighbor's gave us a slip-and-slide last week and yesterday we got it out for the girl's first time ever on one. They loved it but couldn't quite figure out that they needed to really drop and "slip" in order to really slide, so Shane had to toss them down the slide as in the photo below. Chip took these great photos.
Also, last week we harvested the last of our peas and the first carrots and beets. The carrots are perfect and delicious. We've been eating peas for a month now and are getting tired of them! Our freezer is stuffed with 16 bags of snow peas for winter stir-fry's and some spinach from the garden. We ate all the broccoli and chard while it was fresh. We also froze about 9 gallon size bags of strawberries this month and canned enough jam to last us until next June. Unfortunatly my allergies have made it hard for me to spend much time tending to the garden this month, so it is quickly becoming a weedy mess.
The girls holding up our first carrot and beets.
Last week we spent a fun day at a local State Park our good friends, the Ortega's. We went on a long bike ride all over the bike trails, had a picnic and also went Geocaching for the first time. There are Geocache places all over the world and using a GPS and the coordinates found on this website: www.geocaching.com, we found two "treasure boxes" at this park alone. The idea is that once you find the treasure box you can take a prize and leave a prize for someone else. The kids LOVED this treasure hunt and I think the dad's liked it as much as the kids.
Happy Birtday, Mimi!
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Melinda