Kenney has been itching to do a garden ever since we tried, somewhat successfully, during the worst drought in Texas. He got some pallet wood and made raised garden beds and everything! Kenney has already had to cover and protect the plants from hail and wind. Of course the one time he didn't protect his plants with buckets, milk jugs or other pieces of pallet wood, we had a flash flood come through and wipe out a few plants!! Hopefully since we have a compost pile going and have been getting a decent amount of rain, we will have a more plentiful harvest this year!
Some of our best friends in Lubbock have now finished law school and will be heading back to Arizona to work. We are really sad they will be even further away, but they were able to come visit one last time before they leave. The boys were excited to have friends sleep over and play with for the weekend. I enjoyed having some friends around too! We were really happy to have some time with them before they leave.
My herbs and a few succulents. We'll see if I can keep them alive. I'm not very good at this. I planted them a week ago and 3 of the 4 herbs are still alive. However, in my defense, the parsley was already looking bad when I potted it!
Kenney's raised garden beds.
Some bell peppers popping up. This was taken about a week ago, and they are much bigger now.
Beans starting to grow.
I tried to get at least six of the kids together to take a picture, but the two year olds were not cooperative!
This is Radley while I was trying to get them together.
There's Connor in the background trying to get out the door!
Everyone eating cereal. I just noticed how bad the kitchen walls look! Between the scribbled chalkboard, the calendar, wallpaper, paint colors, and stripped off wallpaper, I can't even focus on the kids!!
Matching jammies!! Connor got his on after his bath, and Damon noticed. So he went and found his jammies that were the same!
The boys!
Damon and Emily! Emily has had her heart set on marrying Kyler for about 3 years now. She has it all planned out with their kids names and everything!! She is even going to wait on him to go on a mission before they get married!! (This girl is intense, haha!!) However, Damon has been growing on her!
Poor Nanny has been in the hospital lately, and has been in a lot of pain. On Sunday Bentley was so sweet and just cuddled with her. I think it made Nanny feel good! My boys never would have done this!
The weather has been so nice lately (except for a few extremely windy days), so we've been spending more time outside. We got a fun big airplane from Oma & Papa Dude a while ago but finally took it out for some good flying recently. The boys had a lot of fun, and Kyler had a few really good throws, letting the plane glide really well.
Bentley is getting much more active and involved with things around her. She talks a lot and wants to eat everything I put to my mouth. We started some rice cereal this week which she loves! I still can't get over how much the boys love to watch her do new things and cheer for her!
Piecing the plane back together after one of several crashes!
Daddy helping Radley
Radley's got this!
Damon trying to get the hang of it.
Daddy showing them how it's done with just the right touch to make it glide!
Happy Birthday to this amazing guy! We couldn't love you more, and you couldn't be more deserving.
Bentley is really starting to move a lot! She loves to grab her toes and has been caught putting them in her mouth!
The boys get so excited for her when she rolls over, and she's so close to rolling from her back to her tummy.
She has the deepest blue eyes. They are so pretty.
This girl has quite the shoe collection, and I'm pretty envious! She even has UGGs (pictured above) from one of her Aunts! Lets hope her trend of losing shoes ends soon!!
Kenney put this video on Facebook a few weeks ago, but I wanted to put it on our blog. I love listening to him read this book, especially when he says, "Purple cat, purple cat." He is so adorable!
