My Garden

Corn, with our barn in the background, where the pigs are kept!

lettuce

squash, yellow or zuchinni. I planted both, but I forgot which row was which!

And our tomatoes and peppers (that we have to keep inside b/c we live in IDAHO, the coldest place on earth)


I just planted pumpkins, cucumbers, peas, and more squash a few days ago!!
I say it's my garden b/c I have done all the work!! I weeded, I got the Rototiller, I planted the seeds, I water it...and Judd talks about how nice it will be when we harvest! (I feel like the Little Red Hen:)
SO Another reason I have not blogged in so long is b/c I just have been busy! Idaho has such a short growing season you have GOT to be ready by june 1st to plant, or you may miss it!! (that's what I feel like, anyway) If you want to see my FLOWER garden, scroll down!!!

Sorry it's been SO LONG

The reason I haven't been blogging in a LONG time....





I get a good TWO hours everyday while the boys take their naps (at the same time) to do whatever I want. And I have just wanted to sew these little babbies up! They are SO fun because they each turn out so different! I have given away ten pairs already! I also made this headband with a friend to go with a skirt I made out of the same material. I have just kept really busy with sewing and I feel really good when I do it. It's tedious work, but the end results are almost instant. and permament. (unlike cleaning your house, just to have it messy withing 5 minutes after the kids wake up!)

Backyard Campout

Omigosh! can I just say that again?? Omigosh! Jackson LOVED this!! he was SOOOO excited to sleep in the tent and sleep in a bag. HeHe. I think he was SOOO excited was because we kept telling him we were going to "set up the tent tonight" b/c we had so many nice mornings, but every day by 3 or 4 it was windy and raining. So for almost a week we kept saying, "tomorrow!" But we finally got it done!

This is our set up. camp chairs I got for Judd on his B-Day and an awsome firepit, dug out by Judd's 11 year old scouts =o)

Jackson wouln't sleep in there without me I waited until he fell asleep and headed into my bed. (please, a mattress over the hard ground, no way am I sleeping all night)and somebody had to be in the house with Porter.



We did have alot of fun. Jackson and Dad lasted until 3:00am (when Jackson peed the bed) (and I got a lecture from my 3 year old about ditching out on them!)

MAGIC!!!

I planted these babies in October. Two weeks after we moved in. I had to weed the WHOLE bed and it is long! and I dug them all up b/c I did NOT want them back in the spring. But my hard work payed off!! take a looky! They are beautiful. Planting a seed (or bulb) and just letting nature take it's coarse, is just SO MAGICAL

judd's birthday

My mom came up this last week and we got to do some fun things together...like manicures and take the boys to see baby animals and things like that. But an AWSOME thing she did for me, is she bought me all the stuff I would need for canning! And she bought some apples and we canned apple pie filling that we made from scratch!!! It was so fun! and what a process, but in the end, these beautiful Jars made it all worth it!!! It will be SO benificial b/c we have TWO apple trees that grow delicious apples, and we have rasberry bushes, and cherry trees and plum tree's too!! So I will be making jelly and canning apples all summer and fall!!!! I can't wait!

THese are my boys! They are outside any second of the day that it's not snowing, or raining. We had ONE day of 65 the rest have been high 40's, but with the wind, well, you just don't want to go outside. On one of the nicer days, Jackson said, "can you get my wagon?" So Judd pulled the wagon out and Jackson loved pulling Porter around the yard!

This is Judd's little birthday party we had. My mom was here for this too, so she made us dinner, that was nice! And we got cupcakes from the cocoa bean which are HEAVENLY!!!

We are going to have another party, I think when Judd's mom is in town, and his brother was out of town too, so more pics to come later!

And this is Judd in his scout uniform! He has the 11 year old scouts and I thought it would be funny to put this picture on here, even if he thinks it's not funny =O)

Ladybugs!

SO, for the last 3 weeks or so we have been find -I mean the boys, have been finding ladybugs in our house...at first I think it was just the same one they kept refinding it. But now I am convinced there are several! Spring is coming. Porter LOVES the bugs, so does Jackson, but Porter is so fun to see he giggles and squeals and loves to have them crawl on him. It's nice for me, A single ladybug can entertain Porter for 5 whole minutes!



We have been putting the ladybugs in the vegetables we have been starting. Porter has one on his finger, and you can tell he is excited, hehe. We know there are hopefuly no aphids on these leaves for the ladybugs to eat. But I have no where else to put them.

I opened a couple bags of beans into a cardboard box and the boys play with them every now and then...it's a "special activity" But it has kept us sane through the winter months...

We have had the beans about two months now....maybe I'll try planting them outside in a few weeks...don't worry, we wont eat them!
But they LOVE to put their hands in the beans and scoop them with measuring cups and hide their little toys in them....? I don't know how they think of these things...but it's what we have I guess, until we get a sandbox!

I know, it's been a long time

It's been a while and I have been just doing the same ole same ole with the kids...yeah, we mix it up a bit, Artic Circle for lunch, then some days McDonalds. We also play with play dough, color, watch tons of movies, and the boys wrestle like crazy!!! SOOOO when they go to sleep (Porter is on a one-nap-a-day- schedule...finally!) I get to play. hehehe
So this, turns into...

this...

and I made this one too....=o)


And now I am stuck!!! should I make the blue run diagonal????

Or, Straight up and down?????

I just don't know what to do? Tell me what you think...The flowers are diagonal one way, or straight the other....I just can't decide, What do you think?
When the blue runs diagonal the quilt is bigger...but that doesn't matter b/c either way I'm going to have to add borders to make it fit a king size bed!