Easter & Gardening

Time has a tendency to slip away really quickly.

The last month or so has been fairly involved. The weather at least has been fairly nice, though it is starting to heat up quite a bit.


Easter was fun with the kids. Ezra was old enough to figure out the whole searching for eggs bit.


Emma liked the new toys, though I think next year will be a bit more exciting for her.


Our garden that we planted in early March has done very well. It's been nice to see stuff grow, and the kids have enjoyed helping out with it.


We've even been able to harvest a decent amount. We've had lettuce, snow peas, cilantro, chives, and squash so far.

The zucchini got away from us a bit. There was another one about this same size that we picked and ate earlier in the week. Hopefully the melons do as well this summer.

The tomato plants have done very well, and we should have a bunch of tomatoes here soon.


It looks like we'll even have lemons this year off of our tree.

The flowers have done decently well too. The poppies didn't seem to mind the freeze we had in January, and have just been blooming away for a couple of months now.


The oleanders have started blooming as well. The red are the most stunning.

Unfortunately, the orchid tree didn't take the cold quite a well. It didn't bloom this year, and in fact we ended up cutting the top quite a bit back. I think the freeze was a bit much for it. It is coming back from the roots fairly well though, so we'll see how it goes.


This last weekend was finally going to be a relaxed one where we just cleaned up a bit after everything. But instead, we ended up buying a new couch. In order to fit it, we ended up moving furniture pretty much all over the house, but we really like it.

The kids keep us on our toes and try our patience at times (they're kids, that's what they do best, right?), but it's all worth it to have them smiling and laughing. They've both gotten so big very quickly it seems.