Football

Gav has added a new sport to his resume, football. It's kind of exciting, I'm biting my nails off during practice. He is working on qb, yikes!

3 For 3

Don't waste your time trying to grow avocado from the seed with the toothpick method. I have tried for years to grow avocado this method and others. Now, the last 3 avocado seeds have grown by just planting the seed in soil. Easy peasy!
Note: it takes 2-3 months for this method to work, but it is SO worth it!
Going to try grafting one of the plants next year.

Happy planting

PS... One of the seedlings is from a seed from Colombia. Can't wait for the monstrous avocado fruit

Late night ride

4th of July weekend getaway

Great time hiking, camping, and fishing in Big Bear

Lego Fun

Love that the kids love building different things with their legos. I'm so over vacuuming up the itty bitty pieces.... oh well :)

Too Cute

Excited watching them grow

Our watermelon

Artichoke plant

Green beans

Basil

Yes, that is my avocado plant (from the seed)!

Tomato

Cucumber

Radish- super yummy

radish plant

About Freakin' Time

Yes!!! I finally have the pictures from Colombia up. In my defense, life has been straight up cra-cra busy. Click on Colombia to check it out. Warning there is no organization to it.... for now.

Stay Tuned...

We are preparing for our first international adventure and Austen's first plane ride! So excited to have this opportunity as a family and for our kids to experience a new culture. What's really awesome is my bilingual boy will be able to interact with everyone. I tried initiating conversations with Gavin this weekend so I can try to speak in Spanish better, but after a few sentences I couldn't understand Gav lol. Guess I should had started that sooner...

Green Thumbing It

Oh my goodness, our pot garden (still can't get enough of that one) is flourishing. This week we are harvesting green onions and snow peas.
Our watermelon, tomato plant, green beans, and red pepper area now seedlings. The summer squash plant is huge, may need to transplant that. We planted artichoke last week (you should google the pretty flowers they  can become), but the prized possession is our avocado plant. Oh yes! I finally got a seed to sprout, and I've tried all methods of getting it to germinate. What eventually worked was removing the outer brown shell and planting it in the dirt. It took 2 1/2 months but is worked :-) Stay tuned for more pictures
Happy Gardening!

Snow Peas

Green Beans

Watermelon

Avocado

Green Onions

Hair

When Austen was born and most of the first year she had no hair. All I wanted was to be able to do her hair. Well now I've asked for it. This girl constantly wants her hair done. This was how she wanted her hair for church last Sunday.