Success!

My garden this year was amazing! I've never had so much success and had SO MUCH food. This year I decided to put down black plastic and punch holes for the seeds and plants. I LOVED not having so much weeding and the vegetables seemed to really like the heat. This year I did TOMATOES...which we are still eating. The cardboard box with newspaper really works. I also made a bunch of spaghetti sauce. ONIONS didn't do as well as last year because they were slightly over taken by everything else, but we still got a bunch. I also had ZUCCHINI and CROOKNECK coming out our ears. I made Raspberry Zucchini jam...it's pretty good. CUCUMBERS have never grown for me and I had a lot this time. Our CANTALOUPE was to die for, very yummy. WATERMELON was good, but not great, I don't know if we'll do it again. PEPPERS I was able to use a bunch and freeze some too. PUMPKINS did amazing. I had 12 orange pumpkins. I had way too much fun this year and I'm excited to see how it goes again next summer. I love not having to pay for produce and learning new things.

First day of school!

My baby in school! What's up with that! He is such a smart little guy he probably doesn't really 'need' preschool, but he definitely needs a social outlet outside of mom's world. So I ship him off two times a week to hang out with friends and play. He's starting to get into it. He loves going, but at first he wouldn't do much. His teacher said he'd just sit back and watch everyone else, but didn't really want to participate in the activities. I think he's starting to get more involved.

Braxton with his new teacher. He is the only one that calls her by her name...Teacher Kareen. All the other kids call her teacher. We love her!

Yellowstone in the Fall!

I had James stop on our way into Yellowstone to take some pictures. This one is my favorite of all the ones we took. The moon reflecting off the water was so pretty.

Our good little traveler! This boy LOVES camping.

Our camping buddies! We love these guys! James works with Chad and we've started camping with them a couple times a year. We have so much fun.

Tatanka! Anyone? We learned from our friends on this trip that it means 'buffalo'. Now you know! Braxton is showing us what one is.

Grandma and Grandpa met up with us on this trip.
We love having them come along!

Mom and Braxton making our 'crazy' faces!

Dad and Braxton playing in the water at Yellowstone Lake. Braxton was having so much fun throwing rocks in the water that he was walking in the water.