Fruits of our labors

Last Summer we were very disappointed at how our garden turned out. We have pretty lousy soil in our garden. This Spring we splurged a bit on our soil and in putting in a drip system and are very pleased with the results and wanted to share a few pictures of our harvest.

Ethan is standing between a few of our tomato plants. We trained them to grow up a trellis.

Here are a few things we picked today. We have several varieties of tomatoes, green, red, banana, and jalapeño peppers, cucumbers, green and yellow beans, strawberries, lettuce, squash, and carrots.
A lady in our ward is really big into growing heirloom tomatoes. She gave us a few plants to try out.

We are still finishing up painting some of the trim and our fireplace mantle. We should have everything cleaned up and put back together in the next few days. Ethan has been such a good helper. We tried to get a picture of him helping me sand the mantle, but he wouldn't pose for us. He loves to copy whatever we are working on.We took Ethan to Nursery for the first time today. We were going to wait another week, but Kyle got a new calling this week that made it more difficult to watch Ethan. As we expected, Ethan did great. He loves toys, especially ones that are new to him. The Nursery leaders said that he didn't make a peep the whole time and just played. Hopefully he'll go so easily in the future. With Ethan in Nursery it was nice to get more from the lessons again. During Relief Society and Sunday School Jen saw the other moms and babies and missed having a baby to play with. Good thing her arms will be full again soon!

This week our baby weighs about 2 1/2 lbs (like a butternut squash) and is a little over 15 inches long.