Garden Update

Well, our garden is growing! Honestly, I am just happy that everything didn't die. After we had our big "plant", we had about a week of torrential rains and storms so we weren't sure how much actually made it through. It seems that everything made it except a few cucumber and squash plants (which we re-planted last week). Granny blames this on a big ole dog footprint and another one beside it that says "Crocs". Not sure who she is trying to blame that on! What do you do? haha! Up until the other day I was thinking that this garden stuff was not really that hard. That is until we were at the garden "checking it out" and Granny hands me a hoe. I look at her and she says "I'm going to show you how to do this so you can show Michael. We've got to get all these weeds out of here." So, Michael has been working a lot of extra here lately. We are very thankful for business but I know that the last thing he wants to do is come home after working from sun u til sun down and me tell him Granny said he needs to hoe the garden....I'm assuming that's how you say it? I get to it and let me tell you, that is hard work!!! My shoulders, back and arms def. felt the burn! We got it done though! Another thing we have going is cherry trees. Between our house and Grannys, there are two cherry trees that have really grown and have begun to produce lots of cherries in the past few years. Granny gave Trever the job of checking the cherries early on and he has been faithful in checking that tree everyday! Cherry picking is one of the boys favorite things to do right now! Yesterday was the first day we picked enough ripe ones to make cobblers with. There is nothing like Granny's cherry cobbler to eat after supper! I love living in the country but right now we really just can't get enough of it! (Trever and Michael were at t-ball practice in case you are wondering why they are MIA)



Granny's helper!




Dollar Tree was out helping in the garden too!

Casens 2nd Birthday Party!

I still can't believe that Casen is 2! His 1st birthday party (outside) was rained out and we ended up with about 80 people in our house (you know, the one that the 3 of us are busting out of). It was cramped, but fun! For his 2nd bday, it rained again! We had cut our guest list in half this time (hello, 80 of y'all gets a little pricey) and decided to only invite immediate family (which there are a ton of btw) and Casen's 2 yr old friends. We were going to do a moon bounce and I wanted him to be able to actually jump with his friends. Of course, here came the rain so we rescheduled it for the next weekend, which actually seemed to work out better anyway! He had a great time except that he would absolutely not get into the moonbounce. It never fails that if you actually spend money on something for your kids and have in your mind a way something is going to go you might as well set it on fire and throw it on someone's porch bc it won't be happening that way ;) It was so good to see everyone that came and to catch up with them! Thanks for all of the birthday wishes! Here are a few pics!



This is his new face that he does when he is concentrating....

Cramblit Craziness

Ok, so it has been a minute since I have posted something new. When I say we have been busy, I feel like that is an understatement. This has just really turned into a busy season in life for us right now. Just to give you a brief glimse of the latest happenings: Michael has been super busy at work, we have started a construction company on the side that keeps him busy in his spare minutes, he is also coaching Trevers' t-ball team, I'm not going to go into the schedule of practices and games, we have entered the "Cramblit Birthday Stretch" bc Casens is the last day of April, Trevers is in June and mine is in July so here come the parties, Trever is also finishing up his first year of "big boy" school. He graduates from Pre-K Thursday and has had many school activities. I finally finished up my class at the "Houn" and now Casen is home with me everyday and not in daycare (ok, that right there is enough reason to be behind on blogging -jk ;)Michael and I have felt led and decided to not be so "comfortable" at church and have joined a new ministry team and we will be teaching High Schoolers (he co-teaches 9th grade boys and I co-teach 11th grade girls) this big "Promotion Day" as we call it, takes place this Sunday so we have been trying to gear up for that. I think I will stop there...just wanted to give a quick update. Now on to trying to post all the pics and what not ;) Thanks for checking in!

Trever's First Field Trip!

Friday was a busy but great day for us! It was Casen's birthday obviously but Trever was going on his first field trip! His Pre-K Class was going to Brown Farms to pick strawberries!! Michael had taken off for Casens' birthday so he took one for the team and stayed home with him while I went to meet Trevers class at the farm! I say that Michael "took one for the team" bc it seems that once you have more than one kid, the time you get to spend with each one individually gets less and less. I usually am with Casen since he's "the baby" and is much more "needy" (aren't all men? jk :/ ) and Michael and Trever get to do "big" stuff a lot of times. Example: Michael recently took Trever to work with him for "Take your kids to work day" ( I just now realized that we don't have a pic of that...just great :( Memories, all about the memories, not pics...ok back to my story. So I was very excited to spend time with Trever by myself. (More excited than he was because as of last week he informed me that I was "boring" - that will be another post soon) ANYWAY, I know this is bad, but I have never actually picked strawberries from there or anywhere. I have bought them from there before and been there for other things but never to pick strawberries. This is one of those things you do "when you have time" ya know. I have to say their strawberry "patch" or whatever it is was very ...beautiful! It really was! I have never seen strawberries that looked so juicy and just beautiful! They tasted excellent and I can honestly say that we will not be buying any strawberries from the store this year but will be going to pick or buy them from there. Obviously you want to support your local businesses, "home grown" type produce is better for you anyway and it's fun!! Trever had a blast! Another thing this made me think of as I looked around and noticed that not every little 4 or 5 year olds parent(s) were there, was that God has truly blessed me with the best job in the world! I am SO very blessed to be able to stay home with my kids to raise them and get to go to things like this. Not every parent is this fortunate. God has truly blessed us! I am also thankful that I have a great husband that works so hard to help make this happen! I took some pics and we (all the parents) laughed so hard at Trever bc he cannot stand for the sun to be in the vicinity of his eyes or he scrunches his face up and it is just funny! He just cracks me up!


You have got to click on this pic to get a closer look at this face he is making! haha


Obviously I am just cracking up at Trever by this time...




I don't usually post pics of other peoples kids but 1) this parent wouldn't mind and 2) it just shows how funny these kids were about the "morning sun"


You can spot Trever ....the one shielding his eyes! lol