Cute Girls

Bret and Lori and their family came here for the weekend. Anna met her cousin Jenna for the first time, they are about 7 weeks apart. We all went to church on Sunday and Anna and Jenna were wearing the same outfit and we didn't even plan it. It was so adorable. I took a couple of cute pictures of them later on.


I love this one of Mark and Bret playing with their girls.




I also have another gardening tidbit. I'm sorry I keep talking about gardening, but I hope that I can use this as a reference for next year and maybe give some ideas to other people who enjoy gardening.

I thought I would interplant things this year. I knew that the broccoli was supposed to be done in June so I thought that maybe I could plant peppers and eggplant inbetween them because they aren't done until the end of summer. Well, the broccoli did great, but the eggplant and pepper barely grew. Here are some comparison shots of an eggplant and pepper I planted in a pot at the same time as the ones in the garden.

The Pepper


The Eggplant



I can think of two reasons for this happening. 1-they didn't get enough sun and 2-the broccoli pulled all of the nutrients from the soil because it was larger. We'll see if they grow big enough to give me a yield. It's good to know for the next year though, it may not be the best idea to plant these crops together.

Anna and Gardening

Anna had her sixth month appointment this week. She weighed 14lb. 12oz which put her in the 24%. She actually started moving up the curve, she was in the 19th 3 weeks ago. The doctor was very happy about that. Her length is 28in. which put her at >97%. I wish I had her problem of being tall and skinny:) Her head measurement was 44.3 which put her in the 89%. Overall she is doing very well. She didn't even cry much for her shots, she must take after me:)

Anna loves reading with her daddy, they try to have story time every night.


I had to throw some pictures of my garden on here. I am so proud of it this year. I did a lot of research on the best way to grow tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, and cabbage. My broccoli and cabbage are almost done and I need to take a picture of them before they got picked. If anyone has any questions on how to grow broccoli or cabbage let me know, because they are kind of tricky. We ate some last night along with some lettuce that I picked and it was absolutely wonderful. All the hard work paid off.




Here is a picture of my ginormous tomato plant. It's like two feet tall already, that's almost bigger than any of my tomato plants last year. All of my tomatoes are doing really well, but this one is doing the best.



Sorry for all the rambling on about my garden, I'm just so happy with it this year. I also picked about a pound of strawberries today so I'm very excited-strawberry shortcake tonight-yeah!!

Sixth Month Portraits

I can't believe my girl is sixth months already. She had her sixth month portraits taken on Saturday. I thought they turned out really cute. She was really happy the entire time which made the picture taking a lot easier. Here are a few of my favorite. I love the one of her sitting up on her own. That is the first time she did it and she looks fiesty in the picture.

Toe Sucker

Some kids suck on pacifiers, others their thumbs, Anna has decided she likes to suck her big toe. I think it's hilarious,

Here she is sucking on her bouncer with her cousins Cindy and Lila.

And here she is sucking in her seat, she sucks on just about everything.


Here is one of her reading with her daddy, I thought it was a cute picture even though she isn't sucking:)

I love my little sucker. She turns six months next week, I can't believe how quickly she is growing up.