We are getting good about checking our garden daily and about once a week I take some photos of how our garden is growing. Everything seems to be growing and we have even started eating some of our onions over the past week as they have been sprouting up.
We can’t wait until we can start eating our home grown veggies.
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
For the full album, you can go here:
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| 4MA Garden |
If we were only go to a select few Fort Wayne Tin Cap games, do you think we would miss the Star Wars Night?
Of course not! Unfortunately, the Tincap’s pitchers did not play like they wanted to be there, but other than that we had a good time. Both kids actually behaved in public at the same time so it made the game a lot more fun.
Ean, with his fear of costumed character, did surprisingly well with the members of the 501st as well as Johnny Tincap and he even gave Johnny a high five. Ella, on the other hand, loved the costumed characters and wanted to see them every minute. She probably would have wanted to go home with Johnny or any of the stormtroopers.
To top it off, it was a fireworks nights and we stuck around until the very end to watch all of the fireworks. Both the kids loved them and April even commented that the fireworks were better than Bluffton’s 4th of July ones.
It was a very entertaining night for a relatively low cost that everyone enjoyed themselves.
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| From Star Wars Tin Cap Night 2010 |
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| From Star Wars Tin Cap Night 2010 |
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| From Star Wars Tin Cap Night 2010 |
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| From Star Wars Tin Cap Night 2010 |
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| From Star Wars Tin Cap Night 2010 |
Ean is growing up. No matter what we do, nothing will stop it. On the final day of preschool, Ean had a play party where the afternoon preschool kids all got together in the gym (it was supposed to be at a part, however there were rain storms the night before).
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| From Last Day of Preschool |
It was a final farewell for all of the kids to have lunch and plenty of play for the last day of preschool.
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| From Last Day of Preschool |
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| From Last Day of Preschool |
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| From Last Day of Preschool |
Here is the complete album link:
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| Last Day of Preschool |
We planted our garden plants this morning. We put Bell Peppers, Big Boy Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Jalapeños, Banana Peppers, onions, and cherry tomatoes. Now the waiting begins to enjoy our vegetables.
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
At first we thought he was going to back out on us. However, he surprised us and not only enjoyed playing and but he told us how much fun he had playing. We are glad that enjoyed himself and we look forward to the rest of his games.
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| From First T-Ball Game |
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| From First T-Ball Game |
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| From First T-Ball Game |
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| From First T-Ball Game |
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| From First T-Ball Game |
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| From First T-Ball Game |
First and foremost, I don’t think we are gardeners. I’ve never been able to keep a plastic plant alive. April has some more success than I have, but we are nowhere near being able to make a garden work.
April has talked about wanted a garden for a couple of years and we just never got around to make it work.
Well after we got our rebate gift card back from Lowe’s after we did our roof this year, we had some money to make our garden and make a decent attempt at growing our own veggies and herbs this year. After watching the prices of peppers and other veggies go up in price, we asked Steve and Mom for some help because they have a very nice garden.
So Friday, we bought the garden supplies and Saturday we put it all together. I need to pick up a half scoop of compost to fill it out and next weekend, we will plant.
I have photo album that I’ll be using to document all of the progress year that you can find here:
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| 4MA Garden |
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To watch the progress, make sure you keep checking here and on the photo album.
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
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| From 4MA Garden |
For Mother’s day this year, we decided to keep it low key and have everyone over for dinner.
A simple meal turned out to be something more than we projected. April was making a homemade cheesecake when the propane ran out on our stove and she had to run to her Mom’s house to finish it up. We also had to make Chris cook the lasagna because our stove wouldn’t be filled until the next couple of days.
We finally got through the scare and had dinner, which turned out ok. Not what we planned, but we made do. After dinner was finished, we sat back and enjoyed some laughs watching “America’s Funniest Home Video”
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| From Mothers Day 2010 |
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| From Mothers Day 2010 |
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| From Mothers Day 2010 |
Ean’s first year at preschool is starting to wind down and the weather is starting to participate. Ean’s teacher, Leslie, wanted to give the kids some different type of activities. The kids played with sidewalk chalk, a parachute, and water balloons. The kids really enjoyed their day outdoors.
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| From Ean's Preschool Outdoor day |
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| From Ean's Preschool Outdoor day |
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| From Ean's Preschool Outdoor day |
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| From Ean's Preschool Outdoor day |
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| From Ean's Preschool Outdoor day |
So as most of you may know Friday was my 40th birthday. Yes, I feel old at times, but I don’t think I’m falling apart anytime soon. I want to thank everyone for the cards, well-wishes, as well as the gifts.
I did however get a very nice gift for my birthday that is out of the ordinary. It was Star Wars pancake molds. April and I attempted to make good pancakes until we discovered that we really needed cooking spray to keep the pancakes from sticking.
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| From Dylan Bday 2010 |
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| From Dylan Bday 2010 |
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| From Dylan Bday 2010 |
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| From Dylan Bday 2010 |
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| From Dylan Bday 2010 |
So it began today – The start of Ean’s baseball career. His very first t-ball practice was this evening. He made friends pretty quickly with his teammates as their ran around the bases.
One promising thing is that Ean will not be the only first year playing. The bad thing is that after the first practice, the team isn’t looking so hot. Good thing we have a few more practices to go.
We do have copies of the schedules if you want. Just let April or I know.
