June Gardens

In our back field, the farmer who rents it planted the coolest combination of things this spring, alfalfa, clover, peas and wheat. It was very pretty and just a week after i took some pictures of it, he mowed it down to feed to his dairy cows.




Meanwhile the Potatoes where doing fabulously!! Not nearly as many potato bugs this year as last, but we did some serious rotating.

The garlic grew nicely! I was very excited about the garlic...last year i killed it all for some reason! The little spindly stuff in front here... spinach... that didn't even have a chance to grow... it got hot so fast here this summer that it just came up and immediately bolted!
A cabbage family bed. We grew a few broccoli and cauliflower this year, too.


The cage we made for the peas to grow up, this cage can be moved every year to the next bed in the rotation set. it will fit in 12 of the 15 beds we have here at the house. It worked VERY WELL!

The spinach in this bed did better, it was a more heat tolerant type and it is situated where it gets shade by 4pm. The garlic was amazing. so exciting!

The garden cat... in front of the first onions i have grown from seed!

Some Kaz Cabbage! We can't wait for them to be ready to eat, we love cabbage at our house.

One of our little broccolis! When we cut off this head, tiny little ones grew from the sides!
Some of the beautiful potatoes growing away!

This is my herb garden bed... there is a small pond in the middle... the frogs have moved in and make lots of noise! haha
The potatoes also grew taller that i ever imagined they could! Alex is 44 inches tall!

Grow little pepper, grow!! Our first pepper was a Tam Jalapeno!

We bought a large tomato plant from a nursery, so that we would have tomatoes, early.

This year we have 33 garden beds... some are big and some are small, but they were all filled this year!!!

Back to our Regularly Scheduled Posts...

Now that things have settled down a little from all the excitement, I am going to try to put some pictures on here of the boys from the summer! My my my, am I behind!

By the way, we have received our Letters of Confirmation for the girls and we should have travel approval in about 4 weeks, so travel (Lord willing) in about 6 weeks. Yay!!! also... we still have our fabulous motorhome for sale... hint... hint.




The first weekend in June we went to Nebraska for my Grandparents 60th wedding anniversary party It was just a close family dinner at a banquet hall. It was very nice and so much fun just to spend some time there... Grandpa took the boys fishing first thing the next day! The boys all LOVED it, as you can see from the pics!


Anthony got to go first, since he was the youngest...

Then Alex... and finally Colin, after they got a small lesson... the boys still screamed like "sissies" when the fish came flying at them from the water!!! It was soooo funny to watch. heeheee! They were all scared of the fish touching them. silly nuts!







When we got back to the house... we found Erica taking a nap... on the floor.

The next morning... Grandpa took Jerry and the boys for a quick ride on the boat... before the lunch!

Of course, first thing when we got to the hall we had to take photos... of everyone who came... This is my mom and 3 of my siblings... one brother is missing. Heather, Mom, Billy, Christel, April from left to right.

Not sure what happened to grandpa and Anthony in this one... but everyone else looks happy. hahaha! These are 4 of their 6 great-grand-children.

On the way back to the house for Dessert we had to stop at the playground for a few minutes of goofing-off!
so cute!!!

Then a special little photo-shoot in the side yard at Grandma and Grandpa's! These four are so hilarious together... haha the two blond ones belong to my youngest sister, April... Heather's kids, who are in high school, couldn't come.





A little choking and poking...

Beautiful girl...




Then Anthony zonked... out in the grass...

Meanwhile, Jerry was scanning and inputting all kind of info into the "Family Tree" This is just one of hundreds of photos that he scanned in over the weekend! He was TIRED when he was done!!


The rest of the month was not quite as exciting, i guess as all that packed into 4 days! (other than our referral of Maria, of course!)

We spent a lot of time working on the gardens and maintaining equipment and cleaning the shop. Jerry made the boys some "blocks" with left over wood he had, and they built an amazing tower, that i was quite impressed with!

Alex learned how to look and work like a man all of a sudden!!! oh my!!! so cute and he was dying to try the power-washer a little!

Anthony got to ride in the Takeuchi, which he calls the uchi-uchi.




Of course we had pop-ice a few times...


I will put my gardening pictures in another post very soon... i can hardly wait to show off all our plants and produce! Although i will admit, i haven't taken as many pictures of it this summer with all the excitement surrounding the girls referrals and stuff... but i still have a bunch to share!