I made some chocolate pudding for dessert tonight. Evidently, Carter is a HUGE fan of chocolate pudding!!
He went so far as to lick the remnants out of the bowl :)
Is that the face of pure happiness or what!!!
We are currently under water restrictions here due to the severe lack of rain over the last year. As such, we are allowed to water our yards once a week...our day is Monday. Well, it rained on Monday so I didn't water the yard. I decided that that entitled me to a comp day that I decided to take today so that the kiddos could play in the sprinkler :)
Again, it's very hard for a poor guy to play in the water when his dog is attacking it!
She loves to pose for the camera :)
We switched sprinklers so there was more water for everyone to play in while Titan attacked it.
I'm telling you, we have the strangest dog!
Well our "garden" seems to be coming along pretty well. I have to say that I am impressed with how it has done since we have had so little rain around here. To top it off, I guess this has been one of the hottest Mays that they have ever had here in Texas.
Here is one of my little helpers watering one of the plants in our backyard. He loves to fill up the watering can and water all of the big plants in the yard.
Here is the lone tomatoe on the topsy turvy plant...yes I know the leaves look like they are dying...oh and I really don't think this tomato is ever going to ripen :(
The unknown plant....any gardeners out there have an idea of what it is???
Some green bean plants that got a late start...
Our other tomato plant...we have alot of tomatoes on it, so keep your fingers crossed that they come out ok.
One of the bell pepper plants....it's hard to tell because my camera sucks, but there are a ton of pepper buds on the plant.
Adam's beloved jalapeno plant :) There are about 10 peppers growing on it right now.
More jalapenos....
Here is our biggest surprise! This is the cantelope plant that we were sure would probably die....this is actually only half of it because my wonderful son tore the other half out of the dirt. I can't believe how big this is getting. There are about 5 buds showing up so far on it.
My green beans are doing awesome! The only problem right now is the aphids that I am working to get rid of.
The bug spray that claimed that it was good for ALL garden vegetables seems to have killed my poor pea plants :( I am a little upset about that too because they were doing so good! Oh well....we'll plant more this fall.....
NOTHING! Really, I am being serious :) The last few weeks have been pretty low key around here for us. We are trying to finally finish up the unpacking and sorting. We got the master bedroom done last weekend which just leaves the office for this weekend :) Otherwise, no grand adventures to share with you all...... At some point soon I would like to venture up to the Children's Museum here in town to let the kids play for a day. The problem with doing alot, is that we are very quickly approaching the time of year where you don't go outside during the day...IT'S TOO HOT OUT!
I will try to post an update on our garden in the next day or so, for those of you who care :)
A friend of mine, and old neighbor from "Almost Canada" as she terms it :) posted a blog entry about how people decide on their childrens names. I think that is such an interesting thing to ask people because everyone has their own story. Here is the story behind our names....
Adam and I spent forever trying to decide on Kayla's name. I wanted Emma Marie and he wanted Anna Kathleen (thankfully we didn't decide on either because she doesn't really look like and Emma or an Anna). So I took a list of 100 names and had each of us circle our favorites.....we agreed on only 3 names! As it just so happened Kayla fit the best with our last name. Her middle name was easy...Marie. Marie was Adam's Great Grandma's name, and to be honest one of the few female names in both of our families that we wanted to give a little girl nowadays (think things like Hildegard and Exie).
Carter was much easier to name. The night before my ultrasound we were reading thru a baby name book and I happened to read the name Carter outloud and Adam said "yep that's it...if it's a boy that's his name!" The next day we found out that we would have a Carter in our family. The funny part is that recently I found a place that stated the meaning of the name Carter is "little troublemaker"... HOW TRUE THAT IS! Carter's middle name is Frederick, which to be honest is not very common nowadays but is also a family name. My Adam was named after the first Adam in his family who came over from Germany. That Adam had a son named Frederick (who is my Adam's Great Great Grandfather) and so we thought it would be fitting to give our son a name after one of the other Adam's children.
So there you have the reasoning behind our childrens names. My question to you all is, why did you name your children what you did? Feel free to comment :)
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