Monday, June 18, 2012

June bugs

My two little june bugs are growing up so fast! Here are a few pictures I have been meaning to blog for about three weeks now!

Photo shoot gone wrong!  Obviously Selah is concerned :)

This makes me laugh


love my two little june bugs


Now that is one cute boy!

Selah's masterpiece

Toddler moment: yogurt all over the dog, kitchen, couch, and selah.  We are also growing her bangs out :)

Took the kids to the zoo.  It was a million degrees!
Sterling wasn't too thrilled to be there
Honey sent Selah ELMO COOKIES! 
They didn't last 24 hours...


Toddler moment: I stepped into the kitchen to find this.  Skipbo cards all over the entire floor.

rolling in the cards

love her!

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Garden Rookie

This spring has been the first time that Andrew and I have been able to have our own backyard to do whatever with it that we please.  We went from living in a town home to living on half an acre of land... with lots of fruit trees!  We have apple & peach trees.  The apple trees are loaded down with green apples that are slowly turning red.  We don't have as many peaches on our peach trees... but hopefully next year after we prune it and show it a little TLC we will see more peaches.  We also planted a garden.  Having no clue about how to have a garden, we were starting from nothing.  No knowledge of how to grow things or what to grow.  I did a little bit of research and we just started with the hopes that we would learn a whole lot during this "trial run" and have a bigger and better garden next year. 
We started everything from a seed except for three of our tomato plants and one cilantro plant.  To date, I have planted squash, okra, cucumbers, green beans, corn, cilantro, carrots, tomatoes, and onions.  I had NO IDEA how BIG squash plants get.  Our garden is WAY too full of HUGE plants.  Weeding our garden is becoming more difficult as the plants get bigger and bigger.  After taking care of our garden for the past several months, I am loving it!  It's so satisfying to see a plant grow from a seed.  I definitely will have a TON of produce to can and cook in a few months. 

Here are a few pictures of our "rookie" garden:
Apples from our biggest apple tree. They are slowly turning red.

rasberries!

Peach on the biggest of our peach trees

The littler of the two apple trees. It's loaded!

about a month ago

2 weeks ago

last week

today!

beautiful squash flower


Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Apollo 18

He loves me.
Therefore... he feels the need to tease me.

A few weeks ago, Andrew rented the movie Apollo 18.  When he told me what he got from redbox that unfortunate Friday night... I thought, "oh brother.. another boring interesting space action guy movie."  Whoopee ding.

I was sadly mistaken. 
I am not a fan of scary movies.  Anything that involved erie music with objects that pop out of random places just to invoke the "about-to-pee-my-pants" emotion... I am not a fan of.  I love chick flicks.  Not. Ashamed. Of. It.

A brief overview of the movie is that of an Apollo mission to the moon that is top secret.  Basically, they send these men out into space to discover alien rocks on the moon that not only want you dead... but they make you crazy.  I am literally cringing as I write this.  Supposedly, this is a true story.  There is a website (http://lunatruth.com/) that contains top secret files and recordings about the mission. Or.. so they say.

I jumped, squirmed, screamed, and ALMOST fainted while watching this movie.  Yes, I do know that I am dramatic. But I cannot help the way that I was created.  I like happy things, not creepy moon rocks.  As the movie ended, the teasing started.  "Watch out for that rock, Terra!" "Did you hear that?... Maybe it's a rock knocking on your window, Terra!" On and on and on and on. And on.

A few days later, Andrew left for Knoxville TN early in the morning for work.  I had made plans with my fantastic friend Audrey for that morning and didn't plan on being back until that afternoon.  As Audrey and I made our way back into the garage I was the first one in the door.  Then I saw it.  Fear gripped my soul.  I was too stunned to even scream.






It took my brain a minute to first calm down and then realize what happened.  Somehow these rocks got inside my house.  No one but Andrew and I have a key.  Who else would have known about my fear of moon rocks?  Well.... I called Andrew and after about 20 minutes of denial he finally busted out laughing and then told me how he executed his master plan that day.  He came home early from Knoxville.. once I was gone he came home and planted the rocks right in front of the garage door so close that I couldn't avoid them once coming inside.  SO horrible sneaky terrifying CLEVER!  He hid rocks everywhere.  And his mission was a success.  It scared me half to death. 

So being the awesome wife that I am.. I left them there all day until he got home to clean them up.
And yes, I realize that by documenting this story here for you to read.. I will more than likely be teased about my fear of moon rocks from now on.  But this was too good of a story to pass up.  I will suffer so that you can chuckle. :)

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Sweet Summertime

Summertime is upon us and we have been quarantined in our house for about two weeks now due to a sinus infection, kidney infection, kidney stone, and RSV.  Lots of daily doses of antibiotics are going on around here.  During all of this sickness, someone can get SUPER BORED.  We have watched the movie Tangled about a gazillion times.  Our backyard is a blessing when it comes to be bound to your home.  We have lots to do outside and have been taking advantage of it when we can.  Here are a few pictures I have snagged of our adventures in our own backyard.  It's going to be a great summer.. if we could ever get better! 


the bubble machine is a MUST at our house!


the umbrella is up...

and the lights are hung!

yes, that would be Selah using her mouth to pick up the string cheese that fell on the deck

Our apple's are coming in nicely!

can't wait to eat you!

watching her daddy get the pool set up

the hummingbirds love my flowers



taking a break to get some sugar

weeping willow


love my kiddos





stylin

I'm gonna have to frame this!


BUBBLES!




so kissable

He's smiling!!!