My Garden

Considering this is our official first year of gardening, I'm pretty proud of our achievement. Chance dug out our grass this last Spring, poured the cement around it, and then hauled in some old farmer's dirt where they just built a new Winco. (I heart Winco.)

We then planted peas, radishes, corn, pumpkins, tomatoes and peppers. I am amazed at how well our garden is growing. See, our last attempt at a garden yielded 4 corn stalks about waist high and maybe 10 potatoes. Our weeds got completely out of control. It was a mess.

Anywho, I'm so excited for our harvest-to-come and the homemade salsa throughout the winter. Mmmmmmmm...........Salsa.

The Garden.

Nice! It's even taller that I am.
Can you hear the jungle music in the background? These, my friends, are my tomatoes. Ho-leigh Crud.

Some nice scenery to keep my veggies company...

My first pumpkin! We might just have to enter some pumpkin contests this fall. I see potential in this one. :)

Corn Silk!!

Aaand my peppers. Aren't they pretty? **sigh**

Yuba Lake ~ Day #4

The last day.

Day #4.

You know what that means, right? Group pictures! Oh, and clean-up. Again, you can go to my other blog if you want to read more details about today. Basically we were all super ornery because non of us slept the night before (it only got down to about 85 degrees that night). It was hot. We were tired. We still managed to take some fun group photos. Even though I've included a TON, just know that these are only a FEW of my favorites. I'll spare you the other 200.


Here's Owen chillin' as we try to pack up our stuff. Do you think we can put Gage in there too?


Apparently not.

As we were getting all the kids ready for THEIR pictures, we told them to go sit on the table. Crede....the OTHER side of the table you nut.

All the kids......(at least we got one of Owen completely in the picture.)

with Deer Antlers (a fitting tribute to Chance)


Bears.....

Um....this was new this year...

Muscles....

And it wouldn't be complete without silly-faces.

Here we are. Aren't we sooooo good lookin'? Especially after 4 days of camping. OW!!

Ggrrrrrrrrr....

Muscles (I know, we're soooooooo original)....
Again...this was new. And Ken? We're not quite sure what he's up to over there.
Okay here we are again all laughing....wait. Chance? We're done with the choking picture. Put Gage down.....slowwwllyy.......

All us crazy adults...

Aaaaaah!

All our sad attempts at fishy-faces. **snicker**
Wow. Don't I look strong.
Ken looks like he's going to snap Gina's neck. Just ooooone little twist. I think there are a few men here that might suffer from some passive-aggressive issues. Just sayin'.

Yuba Lake ~ Day #3

Okay...our last big picture day. Day #3. If you want full details, go here ~ if not, you'll get a good idea from these pictures. Enjoy!

I swear Gage was only in the water for about 15 minutes. Check out those prune feet!!




These next few crack me up. Crede was doing some serious digging. I said, "Crede...Smile!" Can you tell the difference?






Mmmmmm....cheeto's.

Elizabeth and Ella Bella...

Hi Grace...

Grace came to get me so that she could show me her creation. She brought me over, showed me the face (and then drew in the smiley face for me), the ears and then the rectangles...which I can't quite remember what those were.

My Peeps.


Aaaah, garbage and a dragonfly.
If it's not running football, it's tube football. Crazy Men.

Hi Crede.

Here's all the cute boys in our group playing "basketball" with a bouncy ball and a tube. They were having a lot of fun.

I swear that kids have a 6th sense. They can sense when another kid is in time-out and will then try to cheer them up. My kids do this all the time at home. Owen was taking pity on poor, poor Grace.


Oops ~ Grace wasn't supposed to see me.
Yep, time-outs are hard.

It finally caught up with him...

Yep, her mouth is full of Wheat Thins. Goofball....

Pretty, pretty Grace. She was one tired little girl.

Oh Owen....that must have felt nice on your bare bum. I will refrain, however, to post the really GOOD pictures of this moment. **snicker** You're sure a cute little boy, Owen.

These seagulls knew what they're doin'. We started packing up our belongings, and JUST when we were finishing up ~ here came the seagulls. They were a little freakish. They would hover RIGHT next to you, and then there were these mean grey ones that would scare the white ones away. Those guys would scavenge anything left on the beach.

Yep, I was feeling a bit "Alfred Hitchcock"-ish right about now. My main goal was to escape without poop on me. Yuck.