My tomatoes are growing! (so far...)

My garden is actually growing.. well some of it is. Here are two little teeny tomatoes I have growing on my Black Krim heirloom tomato plant.

These are some goards that are popping up. These will be good decorations for Halloween.

These are burgandy bush beans popping up.

These are my sunflowers starting to grow...

Like Daddy, like daughter... Darci had a black eye for a day or two. She was trying to get away from Paige and smacked right into the foot rest of the recliner.

Derek participated in a track meet/field day for all of the Westside Albuquerque. He did really good and was really proud of his ribbons. He did a 50m dash, a softball throw, and a standing long jump.

We had another impromptu trip to Thatcher this last week. The kids were excited to spend some time with their cousins, Katelyn, Becca and Brittni.

More Updates

I've replanted a lot of my plants that died during our May frosts. I bought some transplants from a local greenhouse for about $2 for a 4pk and also started some things by seed. I also planted some sunflower seeds up on one of the top levels.

These are various kinds of tomatoes and bell peppers. I also planted some green bush bean seeds.

Here I have more tomatoes, Armenian Cucumbers, Green patty-pan squashes and Okra.

This big one is a pumpkin. Behind it is spaghetti squash. I also planted some yellow sunrise squash and gourd seeds in the blank areas.

Here I have some tomatoes, broccoli and lettuce. I also planted some burgundy bush bean seeds. I don't think the broccoli and lettuce will do much because they're cool weather plants though.

Finished some more dinosaur signs...

Paige with her cousin Maya - the ballerina girls

Darci with her first braids...

Overload....

Well, where to start? It's been a while... Tad is still off work. His eye is healed up, but hopefully he'll be home until the middle of June before he has to go back and deal with all of that stress. And hopefully he'll be able to find another job or at least the hopes of another job before then. But there aren't too many jobs here in Albuquerque unfortunately. But we spend nearly every day filling out new applications. It's amazing how difficult some agencies make it to apply for a job.

Last week we took an impromptu trip back to Thatcher to see the new Gila Valley Temple open house. We didn't take any pictures of it because there were always a ton of people standing in the front, but here is a good article with pictures here. It was really beautiful. We also rented Avatar from Blockbuster and ended up losing it the next day. And we saw 2 scorpions in the house and one of them was on my foot!

I put up a little shelf in the boys room so now they can have some of their favorite dinosaurs up.

On the side of our house, some flower bulbs have come up. I'm not sure what kind they are and am suprised that they bloomed because I never water them, but they sure are beautiful.

Darci is a silly little girl that now likes to climb on and around everything.

We've been working on our yard. I've planted several things and then we got 2 or 3 big frosts, so I'm not sure if that original planting will make it, but am going to plant some more tomorrow and will post some pictures of that soon.

This hail storm was in May! I can't believe how long it's taking to warm up this year. We weren't expecting this and like I said I think it may have froze a lot of by veggie plants.

We finally put some storage into the closet under the stairs. It was actually pretty easy to do, but next time we build something we are going to invest in a stud-finder...

Now we just have to work on increasing our food supply...

Tad likes fixing the girls hair to see if he can put more ponytails in than the previous time.

Videos

Here is Derek trying to get Darci to talk.

Darci has learned to say her name now.

Derek won his jog-a-thon by running the most laps in his class. For a prize he received some Chuck E Cheese tokens. I sure hope they have insurance on their games.... Am I a bad mom for thinking this video is absolutely hilarious?!?