Garden (By Eric)

Yeah... yeah... yeah.  I know this is Becca's blog, but I am posting here anyway.  A few weeks ago I spent my Saturday in a gardening class.  Inspired by the class, I decided to try once again to get a garden going.  So now nearly two weeks later it is set up and ready.

20 feet by 5 feet

With the help of the kids its been dug up, weeded, fertilized and planted.  They helped plant carrots, onions, cilantro, and zucchini seeds.

The White PVC pipe is the watering system

 The watering system is on a timer.  It takes about a minute to water the garden.  When the summer heat kicks in we will boost the number of watering times.

We expect the seed to sprout in about a week.  Once they do we will transplant Tomatoes, Peppers, and watermelons, which started off in a more controlled environment.  (The future locations are marked with the stakes in the first picture.

Waiting for Transplant

When shopping for the remaining plants Amelia talked us into getting her some flowers.  So we will be moving them over to a pot soon.

In the background you might notice wood stacked against the wall.  That is for the trellis I will be building over the next week.  This will be the support system so the tomatoes, and other plants can have support to grow up off the ground.

As for the gnome.... well I got him as a white elephant gift some eight years ago.  He has stood in every garden since then.  When I went to get him for this one he was very sun faded and Ameila had broken the legs off.  Needless to say the legs have been glued back on and I repainted the green on the coat and hat and black on the boots.  Once he dries I'll touch up the beard, mushroom, grass, etc.

Bump on the head

So Ben got to take a little trip to the ER yesterday.  Amelia was pushing him in the stroller at a morning meeting and she tripped and Ben & the stroller did a faceplant into the pavement.  He was crying but Amelia was crying even harder.  Ben calmed down after a few minutes and seemed to be ok for a while.  He did throw up though a little later and so I called the doctor.  They told me just to take him to the hospital so they could do an x-ray or scan if they needed to, so off we went.  He does have a mid concussion but all they did for us was give him a popsicle and sent us home with instructions to come back if he continued to throw up or if he were acting abnormally.  All is well with him though, we haven't had any more problems!

OUCH!

Crazy Hair Days

Just wanted to show off how gorgeous my baby boy is!

I can't believe he's one already!

Happy birthday dear Benjamin... Happy birthday to you!

Two hands full of frosting

Really getting into it now

All done with the cake, get me out!

Opening presents with mom

Everyone is gone... Now the real fun begins, ripping the tissue paper to shreds!

Christmas Time & Trip to UT & NV

Our trip to the Mesa Temple lights

We made a trip over the Christmas break.  First we stopped in St. George to visit Grandma Bettie & Grandpa Brent.  We also got to see Aunt Shanell and her family and Uncle Payden and his family.

Ben loves to climb on Grandpa Brent's exercise machine

So do Rylan & Amelia

Uncle Payden and the cousins :)

Amelia & Taylee

Then we left St. George and headed north.  We spent Christmas at Uncle Jeff's house and with Grandma Lolly and Grandma & Grandpa Hunt.

Snoozing & grinning on the drive to SLC

Waiting to open presents on Christmas morning

I wonder who's excited????

Her first Barbie

Ben loooooves his new blankie, can't ya tell?

Since we were there for Christmas time, we got to spend some time with Aunt Vonalin & Uncle Tim.

Aunt Vonalin's birthday

After Christmas, we went to Grandpa Blake & Grandma Denna's house to spend New Years.

Wheelie Flats

Rylan is trying to get unstuck from the mud

Amelia got rescued from the mud by Uncle Branson

Blakey the drummer