Hello my lovelies

This is the first year that we've been serious about having a garden. We had a garden plot at the community garden in Pullman two years ago but out-of-town vacations quickly lead to weed takeovers and we harvested very little. Last year we had some tomato and pepper plants in pots on the deck which were nice, but we didn't get as much produce as I wanted. This year we decided to follow Mel Bartholemew's Square Foot Gardening technique. Rob built two 2x4 boxes for me and him and two 2x2 boxes for the kids. We planted a few weeks ago, a little early it turns out because we had a few frosty nights. However, we only lost a few sprouts and one tomato plant. Here's to my future salads and salsas. Aren't they looking great?

Three minutes of Eva

April Happens

I can't believe the month is almost over and yet I don't feel that I've really accomplished anything to talk about. So I just picked some of the best pictures of this month and we'll call that a blog post. Maybe I'll put a little explaining with each picture to give some context. If you're lucky. And if Eva doesn't wake up in the next few minutes. Which really, to be honest, she's going to wake up in the next few minutes. And she doesn't like me to be on the computer when she's awake. Cause that means I'm not giving her my 100% undivided attention. And that just doesn't go down with this girl:

Spring is slowly creeping home around here. Almost like it's trying to give winter one more chance to show itself. But the sun sometimes pokes its head out. And Grace sometimes has her eyes open:

Our garden boxes are built, filled, and planted. If it freezes and kills off my summer veggies I'm going to have words to say.

Eva is one and she loves chocolate cupcakes:
And her bottle:
And her brother and sister but sometimes she's not so sure about them:
Grace REALLY likes bumper-cars. Smashing at high speed into your pesky older brother and sending him skidding across the way. What's not to like?

Sam's leaning how to be obnoxious when it comes to taking pictures. Time to confiscate Calvin and Hobbes:
Eva has gone from detesting the very sight of a hat to actually leaving them on her head for brief moments of time:

Rob's scouting out back-packing destinations for us for the summer. Really I think the biggest appeal is that he gets to buy fancy light-weight new gear. Good thing Gonzaga is giving him a job so we can fund it all. Congratulations honey! Make sure you get me a comfy sleeping bag.

Happy Birthday Eva

More Eggs

Here are the kids' contribution to our egg decorations: