Festivus

We had a pretty awesome weekend.  Shelby spent  Friday afternoon playing outside; the weather was fantastic.

That night, she spent the night at Gray's. Shelby helped her grandpa put together a garden cart, which Shelby loved riding around in.

 She also spent a good amount of time swinging.

Her blanket couldn't be left out.

On Saturday we all went to see "How to Train Your Dragon" and then we went to the Pioneer Days Festival.

Shelby was even able to ride a pony, although the go-carts she was too small to drive seemed to interest her more.  Still, haven't seen her happier.

Shelby was brave enough to take a ride on her first roller coaster.  About a minute into the ride she started screaming.  But, she did tell me she like it and wanted to go again.

After the festival we went back to the Gray's and planted our garden.  We are growing zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, spaghetti squash (which I'm really excited about) peppers and pumpkins.

Harvest

I have never grown a garden before, so naturally I was excited to harvest my first zucchini yesterday. I decided to make zucchini bread and it was delicious.

I planted my garden back in May and I can't believe how big my plants have grown. My zucchini plant is even doing well despite its serious setback it experienced when it fell off our deck and broke off most of it's limbs and some of its zucchinis. [sniff sniff] My tomato plant is gigantic and has taken over our deck. I'm so excited to see little bitty tomatoes growing. My strawberry plant, however, isn't doing so hot. A month ago I plucked off 2 very ripe strawberries, but they tasted like dirt. I haven't' seen any new strawberries since. [boo hoo]

Wish Me Luck

I decided to grow some vegetables this year. This morning I planted tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini. I have no idea how this is gonna turn out because I'm quite sure my patio doesn't get enough sunlight during the day. As I was taking these photos at 11:00 this morning the plants were already in the shade. But, I'm hopeful my little plans will grow.

As I was digging up my spike so I could use it's pot (it rotted/froze to death during the winter, boo hoo) I found a peanut our lovely squirrel hid for safe keeping. I was pleasantly surprised to find it. I didn't really think squirrels buried peanuts.

tomatoes

cucumber

zucchini
Mr. Squirrel's peanut