Friday, November 14, 2014

5 Months

Here's our little girl....5 months old. Wearing 9 month clothes, rolling and scooting all over the place. Yesterday I heard Malachi telling her "no," she was starting to grab his train. Heaven forbid anyone touch his trains...haha. By the way, little under 2 weeks till Malachi's 2nd birthday, of course it'll be train themed! Until then, watch your lego's, Anneliese is coming after them!


Smiling at Daddy
These photoshoots can be tiring, I guess

Monday, November 10, 2014

Garden Update

So here are some of our garden pics...we produced much more food than I would have thought. I had major doubts about the zucchini...didn't think they'd have enough sun, well they had plenty of sun and almost took over the whole yard!! Thanks to Andrew's optimism for the plants we were able to enjoy everything from grilled and fried zucchini to zucchini brownies, muffins, bread and even pancakes. 
Our tomatoes were okay; the cherry tomatoes were the best but the roma's weren't as good. Many started but then died or Malachi picked them too soon. We did get a couple of beefsteak though. 
Strawberries were a treat! SO sweet....I mean I have a sweet tooth but they were almost too sweet!
Our herbs didn't do as well, basil died right away...oregano hung on a little longer and parsley is still going a bit...but we didn't harvest it much. 
It was great to have home grown lettuce, but while we were out of town in the summer they started to sprout or something, I can't completely explain it....got really tall without producing anything.
Anyway, it was fun and we're hoping to be in a place next year that has more space for a bigger garden! There may be some repeat pictures below from previous posts but I wanted to be able to compare the pictures next to eachother.

Our box when we started: basin and tomatoes
Tomato plants half as big as they got.
Beefsteak tomatoes
Zuchinni when they were nice and small

Starting to take over....never got a picture when they were the biggest they got
Beginning of lettuce...
...end of the lettuce.





Thought I'd share a zucchini my parents grew...it's a monster!