Kari Kari....how does your garden grow?

I have tomatoes coming out my ears...and the yellow squash is growing crazy. We pick at least 3-4 per day...I have a huge pile of them on my counter, the neighbors are getting lots of "gifts". I told Elise if we could just be content to survive on tomatoes and yellow squash we could save a bundle of money! Unfortunately, that did not fly with her too well. And she is the easiest to please when it comes to food. The other kids would think life had come to an end if their dinosaur nuggets ceased to exist. Even more traumatic the mere thought of consuming yellow squash! Sigh...I THOUGHT by planting a garden my children would be jumping for joy to eat more veggies. NOT.

My Zinnias

Hah...I am such a granny today posting a picture of my flowers...but I am amazed these grow from just a tiny seed. They are SO beautiful. God's creation amazes me!

First Watermelon!

Ava was thrilled to be the lucky girl to pick our first watermelon.

Paintin' the Town Red...

Well not exactly, but I HAVE been painting but its the church ladies bathroom I was painting. I wouldn't post about such a mundane task except I had to paint it a total of 4 times. The color I originally chose turned out horrific. I picked it out to coordinate with a picture I had purchased-at the store it was a perfect match but once it was on the walls of a tiny windowless bathroom...it looked hideous. The color was called "February Gold" which to me sounds heavenly and the color swatch was very nice-sort of a deep buttery goldish color. Even the first wall looked great-but once all four walls were slathered with it I wanted to puke. All I could think was Gerber Baby Food Squash. Everywhere I looked I saw that color in a negative light-the road stripes even reminded me of it. I finished the job late Tuesday night around 11:30, I was so disappointed I went home and vowed no one would see those walls the way they were-that I would get up early Wednesday morning to buy more paint and have it finished before service Wednesday night. I did it too! I went and bought "Churchill Hotel Yellow Haze" by Valspar...definitely an improvement but now the color has no punch at all. Its rather plain however, as opposed to the prior I am satisfied.

Rule #1: Don't try wild crazy colors in a 6x6 square foot bathroom.

Anyhow, all's well that ends well, I completed the trim last night and I must say it looks really good!

On another note, the kids and I planted all our seeds for our garden today. We must have been very hungry when we bought our seeds because we have enough plantings and seeds leftover to plant 5 more gardens at least!
We planted everything you can imagine from oregano to tomatoes (several varieties)...now fingers are crossed that everything will sprout! I thought this would encourage my boys (veggie haters) to want to eat more vegetables however, Caeden was all for planting seeds but would adamantly state that he was not going to be eating those yellow "hings". ("things" meaning yellow crook-necked squash) Sigh...well, perhaps when its picking time he'll come around.

The weather has been so beautiful, all of the orchards are in bloom. I think tomorrow we'll go on a picnic and take some photos for Easter...