Garden Update

In 8 weeks, our garden has gone from this:

To this:

And tonight we had our first harvest and ate this:

It didn't go far between the 5 of us.

Grandma and Grandpa's visit

My parents came up to help out when Luke had his surgery. It is so much fun to have them here--I wish that they could live with us. Having live in babysitters was great. I took care of all my doctor appointments for the year and even got to take a tennis class. We didn't take very many pictures, but here are some of the things we did. I don't have any pictures of Grandpa--but he was here too. He taught Kate to say "Papa, you the man!" whenever he walked in the room.

Allie and my mom made a fantastic strawberry pie.

At night, Mom and I were geeking it up with our computer projects. I was putting old family movies on DVD and she was organizing old pictures that she had digitalized! It was so addicting that it carried over into the day too. "Kids what kids?" or "Get yourself a banana--you're 3--you can do it!" might or might not have been things we said.

Then we got really ambitious and canned some meat. And we didn't blow up.

Summer sports

This post's for you Dad! Here's why we've been too busy to update the blog. In the morning, Allie has tennis class. She's up to level 2 now. I'm taking tennis too, but still in level 1 so Allie likes to give me a hard time about that. But she better watch out--I'm catching up!

Allie's backhand

Nice volley!

After tennis, we have a picnic lunch and then Luke has basketball. He hasn't played basketball before, and he loves it. The first day he counted down the hours and then minutes until his class began. He insists on getting there super early so he can "warm-up".

This kid is about to lose the ball

I don't really know that much about basketball, so there

might have been a foul here, but he had a pretty good steal.

Another steal and a breakaway.

Luke was pretty thrilled that he scored the game winning basket

(it was also the only basket scored in the game)

And while everyone is taking their class, Kate just

sits quietly and plays with her puzzle and colors.

Okay, not really. This is a more accurate

representation of what she is doing:

Funny story about this shirt. Kate saw it in the store several times and always said that she wanted it. And each time they only had a 2T and a 4T (she needs a 3T) I told her she was 3 and needed a 3 and she would say "I want to be 4...." She would even talk about the shirt at home and tell us that she wasn't 2 or 4 but wanted to be 4. Finally, we found a 3T and I bought it right away. She wears that shirt whenever it is clean. It's so funny to me that she is so young, but definitely has a favorite shirt.

Afterwards, we decided to go pick raspberries. Right when we started picking, there was a downpour that soaked us. The kids said it was good because the berries were clean and ready for them to eat. They ate so many that they didn't each much for dinner.

I have to laugh at the look on Luke's face.

He was reacting to Kate stealing the berries

I had picked and putting them in her bucket.