How does YOUR garden grow?

Well today we started what I have decided will be our families "Mother's Day tradition", The kids buy mommy some pretty flowers to plant in the yard and we plant our vegetable garden for the summer:) It was super fun! The kids picked their flowers out at Flower World last weekend
Here's the one Mina Picked (Pink, big shocker)and Max ( I think he had some help from Nani)and my Mom got me this great pot @ Costco last weekend for my birthday:)Thanks Mom! It's so pretty:)
Here's how the veggie garden startedYuck!
But a little of thisand A LOT of thisthrow in a few of theseand Voila!As you can see I still have plenty of space. There are some carrot seeds in there, along with my tomatoes, Red bell pepper (yum) and hot chili peppers (for salsa, also yum) and a Zucchini squash. Also my red leaf lettuce, I'm planning on putting in some romaine as soon as I go buy it:) I also have some pumpkin seeds to plant towards the end of July so the kids can grow their own pumpkins to carve:) I put in another blueberry bush I already have two but I hope to add in a few more:) I want to plant some Raspberries too, anyone got some starts I can have? Which leads to my post heading...
What should I add? What veggies do YOU grow? What have you had success with in the past?
I'm open to any and all gardening suggestions/advice you may have. I'm new to this:)
John and Mina also had a movie matinee todayThe Lion King! John's favorite Disney movie:)
Mina informed me that this is the scary cave where Scar lives. Gotta love it!
And then she set the table for her and Max for dinnerit's so cute I can hardly stand it!
it's good to be a mommy:)

Perfect Pod Par-tay

My good friend Heather's "little" "baby" turned one!(well in a few days) but the party was today at their house in Olympia. We had a nice drive on a BEAUTIFUL day:) Heather had everything all done up in animal theme
Don't you LOVE the cupcake holder? She MADE it:) I need one. If I ever catch up on projects...
The spreadPlenty of kid fare (good job Heather:)John enjoyed the sunshine. And the beverages:)
and the moment you've all been waiting for......the BIRTHDAY BOY!What a cutie! It was daddy's 30th birthday too, hence the shirt. (I don't think he normally goes around wearing a shirt with a 30 on it, although, you never know:)
Mina enjoyed watching Aidan (well actually Heather) open gifts:)Cute pic of Heather, at least SOMEONE enjoyed opening gifts (note the Pod makin' a break for it in the background:)
And, the piece de resistance....The Huskies Mohawk hat I made Aidan!
He rocks it! Even with a bottle! Now I'm making daddy a matching one (sorry, I should have done it for your bday Chad-belated gift k-:)
Birthday boy cupcakeDo you think Max liked the cupcakes?Hmmmm, I dunno. And Mina?
Max used this opportunity to brush up on some of his lines,"So ah, you come here often?"
And can you guess where Mina spent most of her time?Dino Chicken nuggies!
Then it was home to grill some steaks, relax on the deck, and hug a pug:)Thanks for inviting us Heather, we had a great time, and Happy birthday little Poding!:)

All swam out

Well Wednesday was Mina's last day of swim lessons:( So I brought the camera to catch some of her new skillz in action......
Doggy paddle
back kickfront kick
back floatplayin' games
Being absolutely adorable!Well she didn't need a class for that. Can you tell she had a blast!
Lil bro cheered her on:
Mina loved the end of class when they would "swim" across the pool:)
So did you pass?
No, It looks like we will be taking Preschool 1 again:) (pretty much every kid has to, or maybe that's just what they told us to make us feel better:)
We are proud of you little bee!:)

another 5k

No not the running kind although I could definitely use it:) I don't know how some people blog everyday. I can't even READ blogs everyday let alone write my own. I think if I would do it more often though, I would have several little posts that take about 10 min each instead of the marathons I seem to be delivering lately. We'll see how long it takes me to learn my lesson....

I haven't even told you about LAST weekend!! I had the best birthday being completely spoiled by my adorable husband:) And absolutely NO pictures of it!! I was so busy relaxing I didn't take any:) First we went to the spa at "The Woodmark" resort in Kirkland and had amazing spa treatments that consisted of a 1 hour massage, hydrotherapy session, a scalp massage and paraffin hand dip. Dreamy! Next, our favorite Columbia Valley winery (Bookwalter) opened a tasting room in Woodinville last summer and we STILL hadn't been. So we stopped by for some wine tasting and ended up with half a case! (How does that happen?) Then it was off to Bellevue to have dinner at El Gaucho. Yeah what a super wonderful day! AND I had an amazing guy to spend it with! I love you honey!
The next day I went to lunch with my friend Heather, our birthday's are one day apart so we were celebrating! Here's me with her cutie pie Aidan!and her with my cutie pie:)And the two cute birthday girls!Mina found a rock to play "Ariel" with (of course:)This last week was pretty busy, Nani and Papa came to visit! We got some cute pictures (of course)and hung out outside in our AMAZING Friday weather!Friday night was LADIES SCRAPBOOK NIGHT!It was super fun gals, we should definitely make it a regular thing:)Saturday we decided to go to Flower world and buy some new (undead, -and no not the zombie kind. Although that would be kinda cool-) plants for the deck:)The kids love that place:)Then we went to famous Dave's for a belated family birthday dinner and I got.......A SEWING MACHINE!! What a wonderful gift! Thank you Margie, Lexi, Alyssa and John!
Sunday we went to a friends birthday party..... at Jump Planet!!
Big Fun!!Here's John in his "cabana wear" I told him he needed to bring socks to the bounce house and he brought these black ones! What are you 80?I don't need to say how much fun the kids had and the big kids too:)There was even pizza and cupcakes!it's been a pretty fun week and now I'm exhausted and going to bed!:)