A Garden & Friends

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!