Growing Garden

Our garden is growing and I am so amazed!  I know I shouldn't be surprised that anything is growing but, really I am.  It has been pretty cool to see the plants start as seeds, flower and produce.  Thanks mostly to Kevin, we have been able to keep it weeded and watered which has been the biggest reason it is doing so well.  The kids love going out to see if anything new has grown.  Keira wants to know if we can go pick more food, and then lists everything she can possibly think of that might be growing out there.  

Lake Powell

We headed down to Lake Powell with some of our friends for a few days of fun in the sun.  What a great time we had.  Lots of swimming, playing in the sand, skiing and hanging out with friends.  Kevin tried the wake board and had a blast.  Zoe loved the water and wanted to swim all the time.  Keira had a great time playing in the sand her buddy Tracy and flagging for whoever was skiing.  Sasha loved the boat and especially watching Kevin ski.  She ohhed and ahhed and clapped for him.  Adorable!

We saw so much of Lake Powell, I had never been before and it is just gorgeous down there.  We had a great time camping and lucked out with a shady spot where we hiked up to a cavern with a pool full of tadpoles and had fun yelling just to listen to the echo of our voices.  We stopped by Rainbow Bridge, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and took a few pictures, made a stop at the marina for gas and ice cream and enjoyed driving through lake.  We had a great time with our friends the Bollingers and can't wait till our next adventure with them.

Garden

We planted our garden about a month ago with some starter plants and two weeks ago we planted the rest of the seeds, hoping it was done snowing and freezing so they would actually grow.   I was a bit skeptical that anything would grow but we've been watching it for signs of life and with all the rain lately we have been rewarded with cute little green plants!  

one row of corn

half of the garden: strawberries, raspberries, onions, peppers, green beans, zucchini, tomatoes

You've got something on your face sweetie

We were enjoying the sunny but cold day and I looked down to see what Sasha was doing, she seemed very occupied. 

This is what I found.

The scouts had recently come by and aerated the lawn so there were clumps of dirt that she had gotten ahold of.  I say yuck, but she thought they were oh so yummy!

My little Renesmee

It all started as baby teeth should.  Although I think 4 months is just too early for teeth none of my kids have felt the same way.  She got her first one on the front bottom, then the one next to it came in.  Then another one on the bottom.  So one straggler is ok.  Then the top left side tooth.  What? At this point I started calling her Snaggletooth.  It was funny and cute. 
Then the other top side tooth came in.  At least this time it was in a pair.
Now she has another one on the bottom to match again but we are left with fangs on the top and a row of bottom teeth at varying heights because they all came in at different times.  I think it is the fangs that just reminded me of a little vampire baby named Renesmee. 

Playroom in progress

Over the weekend it was just us girls and we decided to start to put together the playroom downstairs.  Keira and Zoe had a great time helping paint and they kept saying "it is so cool we get to paint on the walls! but only when mommy is here".   Still need to finish things up but here is a peek.  It was great to use up some of the colors in the garage plus a few acrylics we had around.
I'm motivated to finish the shelves and other storage area so we can move out all the extra stuff to an organized storage room.