Easter and a Growing Garden

What a wonderful and enjoyable Easter we had this year! Thanks to our family and friends, Addison was absolutely spoiled with all sorts of Easter goodies, it was like Christmas all over again. I am certain she enjoyed hunting Easter eggs the most and she knew exactly what to do. I must say we hid the eggs for her a couple times that day and even a few times later that week. Yes, Easter had passed, but the joy she had searching and picking up her eggs is just contagious. A few pictures from Easter Morning:Hunting Eggs

Instead of candy in her Easter eggs, she got Money! Even Better!She gets a tad excited about money :)So pretty

As far as our garden goes, it is somewhat coming along. We still only have 2 carrots that have started growing, and what we thought was an onion, may just be something else...However, our green beans have been growing like crazy. In the past week 11 different sprouts have popped up! If all else fails, we might atleast get some green beans from the garden.

A perfect row of sprouts.A close up of one of the bigger ones.

A Quick Look

As promised here are a few quick pictures of our garden taken almost a week ago.
Here is our garden area. We blocked it off with pieces of wood in hopes to keep the dogs from prancing in it. As we go on and our garden gets bigger we will probably end up roping it off or putting some sort of fence up to keep them out. But for now, the wood has worked. The garden looked pretty for about a day, and once all the rain came sticks,dirt and everything else has been blown into the garden. (You can probably see our swamp in the back of the yard from all the rain).Our first Carrot sprout! Since I took pictures we have another carrot sprout popping up, 1 onion, and 1 squash. So far no Green Beans. Hopefully soon we will see some more veggies beginning to grow!

A Gardening Experiment

When we initially moved into our house, our hopes were to build a garden in the Spring that would last all summer. With all the yard work our house required, any hopes of a garden quickly got pushed aside. This year I really didnt want to miss out on that opportunity again. Last weekend we finally decided to get our hands dirty, and take the plunge planting our first garden. Someday I would like a huge garden with lots of fresh veggies, but since this is our first year, we decided it would be better to start off small and learn from our mistakes. Sunday afternoon while Addison was down for a nap, Chad set out to find the perfect spot in the backyard and began digging. I knew when Addison and I went out to help, there would be no keeping her out of the dirt. I dressed her in play clothes and shoes and prepared myself for dirty fingernails. Helping Chad dig was pretty fun, we found a few worms (all of which were so "Yuck") and some rollie pollies which Addison found quite interesting. After about half and hour, Addison resigned to sitting on the side lines in a chair eating a snack (and in the shade of course) while Chad and I started to plant the seeds. We decided to plant Carrots, Onions, Summer Squash (our fav!) and Beans. I had looked up information online and was beginning to get excited to go out and water our small garden during these nice cool days. Florida/Georgia weather decided otherwise. 2 days after planting our garden it started raining and 3 days later it still has not let up. Half of our yard is flooded (Not so much the garden area)so I am keeping my fingers crossed that the rain has not ruined all of our hard work. I am really hoping to be able to produce atleast SOMETHING from our garden! I have been wanting to post pictures, but with the rain I dare not step foot in the mush that has become our yard. Hopefully I can get a picture this weekend and keep everyone updated with our garden progress (or failure??).

Since I dont have any pictures of our garden, I will substitute that with pictures of Addison, of course! Here are a few from a couple weeks back.

The quality of this photo is not the best, but her devilish little smirk makes me laugh.