Andrew's 3rd Grade Cabbage

2007! Quite Impressive I think. Andrew as in 3rd grade at Vinewood Elementary.

Growing Garden

From Left to Rigt of this photo

Row #1: Yellow Corn

Row #2: White Corn (from seeds!!)

Row #3: Brussel Sprouts (from seeds!!)

Onions!

Artichokes

Zuchinni in the bottom right corner! And Joshua's cabbage plant from school in the middle right of the photo. All 3rd graders in California have to grow cabbages. Andrew did it and did a fantastic job...will post his picture from 2 years ago.

Just to update all on our garden's growth. ALL the seeds have now sprouted. We have success so far in that nothing we planted has died or not sprouted yet....! Yippee.

Easter 2009 - Lodi, CA

Troy's sister Laura, her husband Nate, and their two daughters, Lexi and Chloe came out for Easter weekend. We had such a great time getting to know them all better. We all ate great food, watched some good movies, went to Pier 39 in SF and ate with Tyler and Barry! The boys and Lexi all went to the skatepark...Laura and I seemed to frequent the grocery stores and everyone played and got along so great. Matthew and Lexi couldn't get enough of one another. Matthew is still asking when they will come back. For Easter celebrations we had an easter party the night before, we decorated cookies, made two different types of colored eggs. Easter morning the kids got up and hunted for easter baskets and then after church we had an egg hunt in the front yard.

General Conference Pinic

We seem to typically go have a picnic in between conference sessions on Conference Sunday. These are just a couple of the kids playing. The 3 big boys were in their own land of some make believe story!!

More Vegetation

So we have been working on our apricot tree as well over the past couple of years to get it to grow good fruit and be plentiful in providing fruit for us to eat as well...we think we got it right this time! We also planted some magestic palms in our back yard that we just love. We planted these last year as well...and Matthew chose to cut them down...thinking he was helping cut trees like Daddy does. That was quite the story and site to see!

Garden Planted

We decided to expand our family garden this year. We started from scratch. The rotatiller we planned to used didn't end up working...so Troy and the 4 boys and even Kamdyn all got out shovels and overturned and prepared the ground by hand. They all worked hard. The spot turned out great. Matthew, Troy and I planted the next week and the garden was in. The last picture is of the brussel sprouts...just sprouted on the first day. It has been great fun watching our garden grow. This is the first year we have done some seeds as well...so waiting for them to sprout has been exciting. Honestly, as silly as it sounds, I have gotten really excited when the seeds have broken through!!!