Summer garden!

Silk on the corn

                                                       Sugar Baby Watermelon

                                                     Pumpkin vines

                                                         Corn

 

Ok so I have planted Peaches and Cream Corn, Sugar Baby watermelons, and Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins, and cucumbers. I also planted peas, and tomatoes. I have learned a lot from having this garden. One: vine plants need LOTS of room. They will plan a coup and take over anything you put next to it. Example, my tomatoes and corn. 2: I need WAY MORE tomato plants. Apparently tomatoes don't all grow and ripen at once. Thus, if you have, as I did, only three tomato plants, the chances of having enough of them at any one time are slim to none. 3: corn is amazing to watch grow. You think you put enough room between the rows to water and weed. It is that way until they are really tall and their leaves are longer than my wing span. Need more room between rows. BUT, not so much that they can't wind pollinate. (Sigh) 4: I need to plant strawberries, and carrots and onions. 5: not bothered about peas. 6: need to plant pickling cucumbers. Need MORE plants than two. 7: Try a bigger size watermelon next year. 8: Pumpkins are sneaky minxes. They DO NOT like hot weather. And even though the vines are strong, the leaves are dinner plate size and the flowers are big, orange and beautiful....They will NOT fruit in hot weather. So I anxiously await my pumpkins. 9: God was obviously really, I mean really mad at Adam and Eve when he kicked them out of the garden of Eden. I have one word of tortured punishment people: WEEDS. How is it that they can grow in ANY weather, in drought, and still grow better than any pampered, fertilized, watered and sung to veggies or fruit? I mean really, REALLY? Thanks for listening to my rant. The plants gets this lecture ALL the time, they are happy someone else feels their pain.

Thanksgiving

I decided since last year on Thanksgiving we were on the road to move to Denver that I would do a somewhat traditional one this year. Since to no one else in my family Thanksgiving isn't a big deal, (they don't have Thanksgiving in England), I had a Honey Baked ham instead of turkey. I made sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, a raspberry tart, and a cherry pie, and Wicked Fruit Salad. Maggie made her traditional Yule log that she does for Christmas as sort of a "practice run". It was yummy and being with family is great!

Ward Halloween Party

We went to our ward Halloween party and had a chili cook off. Guess who won grand prize? Yep...ME! The missionaries chose the winner.The kids had a lot of fun and the trunk-or-treat was great too!

Snow Day

                                          Snow Ball!

                                           I'm gonna get you!

                                            Nuberts snow angel

                                           Abbi snow angel

                                             Bella snow angel

It is the first snow day of the season! It is snowing a lot and the kids LOVE it! Especially Abbi.Me...not so much.I am truly a desert rat!

Hammond Candies

                                           Burger King for lunch first.

                                          Lady spinning candy on a machine so it gets air in it.

                                            My cute family.

                                           Vaughan

                                          Making sour apple filled candy canes

                                          Fun at the park afterwards.

Sam, the kids and I all took a tour of a candy factory here in Denver, that makes a lot of the candy the old fashioned way. We got free samples after and the gist shop was wonderful! We had a great day!

RMDS Field Trip

                                           Abbi with Hunter and Noame from her class.

                                          Bella and Abbi picking carrots.

                                          Girls picking Indian Corn.

                                           Abbi and Bella with their pumpkins!

This was the girls' first field trip with RMDS and they went to Miller Farms! It was a lot of fun! They got to pick their own veggies, and a pumpkin too!

Cave of the Winds, CO Springs, Manitou Springs

We went to the Cave of the Winds in Colorado Springs! We had a great time and the cave was AMAZING!