Busy Saturday

Our day started like this:



Do you know what these are??

They are the 12 posts set into cement that will help hold up our new 16 x 20 deck!! I am so excited! Now that the posts are in, hubby Kevin and my almost-bro-in-law are going to build the deck next weekend!! More pics of that in futures blog posts......


After a visit to the gym, I made these:



Camden gives them a thumbs up!!



Then, Bryn and Afton helped Daddy:





To make this:



Do you know what it is?
It is a new concept in vegetable gardening that we are going to try out. Basically, we have to plant vegetables in each square foot depending on the size each type of veggie will reach upon maturation. For instance, a pepper plant needs a whole square foot and 16 carrots can grow in one square foot. We are using "Square Foot Gardening" by Mel Bartholomew as a guidebook. He claims that his technique will give us a greater yield in less space. Kevin and I are very excited to see what we will produce over this growing season.

At the end of the day, Camden did this:



While Kevin was trying to do this:


Too funny, eh??