A Little Gardening To Do

My little gardeners and I decided to add a new plant to our thriving little garden this week.  We went shopping for a strawberry plant but didn't have any luck, so we came home with a blueberry plant instead.  I must be getting the hang of this transplanting thing because so far it's looking good! When I say garden it's definitely in the works, but for once I'm keeping plants alive so this little garden is big for me.  It wouldn't be what it is without my little assistant telling me, "we need to water my food."  

I am happy to report my days of begging Ellie to play games with me have come to an end.  My love of games has finally rubbed off on her!  We've been playing lots of games and I'm loving every minute of it...Candy Land, Go Fish, and our current favorite Enchanted Cupcake Party.

We brought home a little friend...

Ellie holding the little snail that was on our blueberry plant.

Ellie thought it was so cute,
she used her Olaf voice to describe just how tiny and cute he was!

We found a home for him in our flowers,
 and thankfully his absence went unnoticed the next day.

Game time...

Even Daddy got in on the board game fun!

Hauling some precious cargo...

I finally got her to play this Princess Sophia game the right way.  

It was a miracle I had to capture the moment.

Now for our Garden...

Our zucchini plants are looking the best.

Ellie's my expert water girl.

We've got two snap peas so far.

Jack isn't into the garden,
he's manning his post of watching us from the sliding glass door.

Jack always has a digger near by.

I loved that he was having superman drive.
I'm surprised it took him this long to combine his favorite things!

              Millerton Lake

Swimming at the lake was our weekend trip.

Ellie kept trying to make friends with the klan in the background,
needless to say they weren't having it.

So she was forced to be happy with her little magpie brother.

It was good to check out another stop close by us to cool off at.

  We had one of those embarrassing yet funny parent moments at the lake.  As we pull up on the beach of this lake Ellie got out of the van and says, "uh oh, I have to pee." So I tell her at the lake you just pee in the water.  So I go around to the other side of the van to get Jack out and I look up to see Ellie walking bare bottomed towards the water with her swimsuit bottoms around her ankles. I holler at Jayson to intervene while I finish getting Jack out of the van and had to laugh at the spectacle.  I suppose I should have been more specific about how we go pee in the lake.  I think
I just didn't expect her to head towards the water without us in general, lesson learned!

A Little Tea Party Fun

This week we had a fun little activity to plan for.  We invited a friend over for a tea party.  We enjoyed preparing all week getting various supplies we needed. By the time the big day arrived the kids were waiting on pins and needles for their guest to arrive.  It was a big hit and the kids had a ball!  Our weekend fun, was finally making it to one of the local stops on our list the Forestiere Underground Gardens.  The pictures Jayson took just don't do it justice.  Plus, we were so interested in hearing all the tour guide was telling us we were a little distracted.  It was amazing and the kids loved that we were going through tunnels.  We topped off our evening with a firework show at the water park near our house.  We'd been meaning to go check it out and it was a surprisingly good show.  Jack kept yelling, "Ooo, those my favorite."  Ellie just loved how, "sparkly" they were.

Putting our crafty hands to use...     

We decorated teapots to line the sidewalk.

Our two projects, were Mad Hatter party hats and edible tea cups.

Jack wanted nothing to do with decorating a hat.

Time for Tea...

Once we made the hats we got to work on the edible tea cups!

They turned out so cute.

Jack will get  his boy play date in due time.

I finally got her to model her hat for me once the play date was over.

Our little snack was perfect!
Our sweet little guest Addison didn't want to leave which I thought was a great sign she had fun!

 Forestiere Underground Gardens...

Our first stop the Trinity Garden that was shaped like a triangle with 3 different citrus trees.

Some of the trees had been grafted to grow more than one kind of fruit.

Grape vines were all intertwined above us.

The trees would grow up and out of these skylights he created.

I could not imagine one man digging this on his own without modern day tools!

Thankfully the kiddos did good about staying close. 

This place was just so amazing to see.

It felt much cooler in the tunnels.

It was one of those tours that was so interesting it felt like it was only 15 minutes when it had really been an hour.

The crazy thing about most of these picture is, it doesn't even look like we are underground level, but we are.

The kiddos did a really good job about not picking up anything
 which was mentioned in the beginning.
 They are nature hoarders, so I was very proud of them!

 

Back Home...

Jack and Ellie were playing dog and cat, Jack told Ellie to put him in the cage.
Ralphie did not like them in his space!

Ellie informed us she needed to practice her hula hoop.

She's getting pretty creative at keeping the hula hoop up longer!

Our first family selfie waiting for the fireworks!