Pretty squash!

Our summer squash is blooming!!

Look at the buds!

The pumpkins are blooming, too!

It has begun!!

Here are a few pics of our first day of construction. The lot is being leveled and prepared for the foundation. This week the plumbing gets roughed in and next weekend our foundation gets laid!

Look at those clouds! What a lovely view.

Mo helping dad supervise.

Mama's little helper.

This is how we do our grocery shopping around here.

Moses and Shepherd.

Monday was date day. I love date day! I can hardly wait until we live right across the street from these wonderful Mirabal people. Oh, the fun we will have!

Shepi was hungry.. not really.

Look! They SEE each other! I think they figured out the other one existed this week!
Oh, the trouble these two will get into!

My own little sprout and a garden update.

6 month check up! I'm still having a hard time believing Moses is 6 months old, the time has just flown by! He is growing well, 17lbs 14oz, and is hitting all of his mile markers. He had a harder time with this round of shots, but the fever and fussing only lasted a day or two. Look at the little guy. Isn't he sweet?!

And the garden! Things are really happening out there!

Look at these squash!

More squash..

Even more!

There is a tomato plant in the middle and decorative gourds growing around it.

Broccoli!

Lettuce! I definitely planted these too close together. Some of them have been transplanted to another section of the garden. Live and learn!

Beans, beans, beets, beans, beans, beans ..

Beets and herbs!

There are 3 rows of carrots. I have no idea how so many are growing together. I was really careful when I was laying the seeds! You can really see the weed issure we're fighting in this photo.

This area was cleared for transplants. We put down a bunch of compost, and well.. just look..

See all of those plants growing? I think I must have put cantaloupe seeds into the compost. Some sort of gourd is growing everywhere we put compost! Ugh!

This is a blueberry bush, and a couple of raspberry bushes in the distance. We also transplanted some of the beans up here and on the tier above it we transplanted some more squash.

More tomatoes! I really like having the marigolds growing with them. Pretty.

We're going to have tomatoes galore!

And a word about compost. We recently moved ours to allow for more room for transplants. We simply purchased a trash can, drilled holes in the sides and dug a big hole in the ground for it. We started last October sometime so we would have some good compost this spring. We put lots of leaves in the with things we saved from the kitchen and it has worked great so far! Putting it in the ground during the winter allowed the compost to do its thing during the cold. It is recommended to put blood, bone, or fish meal in the help with the decomposition.. we opted to not do that and still had great results!

A house update!

We close tomorrow! Jeremiah and I are so thrilled! The next month will be filled with acquiring the necessary permits and preparing the lot so the plumbing can go in. The concrete should be poured in about 4 weeks then things will really get going! I will be posting pictures of the process.
Jeremiah is doing all the contracting himself, which is basically like taking on another full time job. Please be praying for our family during the next 6 months!

For those who didn't catch it the first time around, here are our floor plans and here is a link to the picture of the lot!

Good morning Moses!