One Week Ago

....I was headed to the hospital with this!

Lincoln Speaks

Lincoln's reaction when the nurse tried to take him from his Mama shortly after birth.

Lincoln Jude - 6 lbs 9 oz 19" 9:22am 7/8/09

Our quiver is full!

Baby Makes Seven!

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I blog jacked Kristen's account to post these pictures! She is resting peacefully. Both Kristen and Lincoln are doing great. Thanks for your prayers and love! More pics to come tomorrow.

This picture was taken as he was being born....with 2 special onlookers.

Bunnies!

Had to quickly post a couple pictures of our baby bunnies.  And now I need to go have this baby!

Gardening 101 continued

I posted a few pictures of our garden from a few weeks ago here.  Well, it has grown like crazy since then!  We headed out yesterday to do a bit of harvesting.

Madeline picked the first cherry tomato.  And was begging to eat it before we even got home!

Here's the first bit of cauliflower.

Abby is cutting some broccoli.  

Gabe checking to see how the green and yellow peppers are doing.

Check out Ron snapping some beans off for our dinner.

Once again, we are finding this strangely addictive.  Ron and I couldn't wait to get home and wash all our fresh veggies.....and then cook some for dinner.

4th of July Celebration

(scroll down and pause music before viewing)

Here's someone in our home that's definitely excited about his freedom.

Gardening 101

We decided to try our hand at gardening this year.  Its been a great learning experience....lots of library trips and internet research, trips to the gardening store and a ton of patience with 8 little hands doing the planting.  ;)

Keep in mind, we are completely suburban folks.  Before this project, our idea of gardening was a trip to the local Farmer's Market.

We are finally reaping the benefits as we have harvested our first few veggies.  The romaine lettuce is growing like crazy as well as the broccoli and spinach.  

We also planted tomatoes, zucchinni, squash, carrots, cucumbers, green beans, cauliflower, strawberries, basil and parsely.  Most of them are getting close to the first harvest as well.

Here is our broccoli.  This was a few weeks ago when they were still babies.

Yummy.  Romaine lettuce.  You should see it now.  HUUUUUUUGE.

I have to admit.  The whole thing has been somewhat addictive.  There is nothing more uber cool than eating something that you planted, harvested and cleaned with your own hands.

(not to mention the major savings of growing organic veggies versus purchasing them!)

**thank you to my bro Tom for allowing us to use his farm and special thanks to Beth for being our garden partner!