Thursday, June 9, 2011

spring planting

Over the last few weeks, we've been getting the garden in. The kids are becoming great little helpers.Now if only the garden could weed itself.

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Garden weeds never sleep.
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Nina planted radishes a few weeks ago and was thrilled to harvest some today.


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Nina looking through the seed packets as she plans her little garden.

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Zig showing Sela how to plant the starts.

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Now it's her turn.
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Photobucket Rollin was planting in the pumpkin/gourd patch. He picked these snake gourd seeds out with Zig earlier in the day at Molbaks. Looks like October is going to be pretty exciting for Rollin!

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Zig showing Rollin where to plant the seeds. I'm pretty sure he ran off and played "jump over the shovel" with Nina after this while Zig planted the seeds. Baby steps!

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My chocolate mint is going strong. On my list of things to make is chocolate mint infused truffles. Maybe this weekend...

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Evan woke up from his nap and took awhile to warm up to this whole gardening thing.

Photobucket Looks like Nina is running from Mr. Cranky. 

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I am 2, hear me ROAR! We love our Evan!

Even though these projects often begin with some complaining, they always end with dirty, happy kids. There is always lots of laughter, fun and plenty of horsing around. I cherish these days where everyone is content and happy to be home....when I can look across the lawn and see all my little ones traversing the yard, flinging wildflower seeds, and most importantly building bonds and memories with each other.

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We're done!

1 comment:

Amber Marie said...

can we have a cooking class next time you come to the valley?! what a neat activity. i actually have several of lisa's recipes from a RS cookbook of yours that was left here a while ago. i assume it is the same lisa...anyway, i love her dress at the shower too!

your garden is looking fantastic. what a great thing to do together as a family. wish we were closer to share the harvest ;)