Church Garden

Our ward decided to have a community garden this year.  In previous years the space at the church was used by individual families to grow their own crops.  This year everyone chipped in to build a fence, plant, weed, and harvest.  Everything went to the Interfaith Food Pantry right here in Blacksburg.  The kids and I went a few times to help with things.  I thought this was such a neat idea and a great way to serve our community!  The kids never complained (well, except Bristol!)

 Just a small amount of the hundreds of beans that were donated throughout the summer.

Garden Produce!

Our garden is out of control!  We have been getting so much produce.  It's awesome, but a little daunting in trying to use it all up.  I have taken some large bags of different veggies in to some of my classes and given it away to people after class.  We make batch after batch of salsa and just sit and eat it.  It's so good!

These first few pictures are when the crops just started producing (and we were better at controlling the weeds!):

 Then before we knew it the corn was taller than us!

 And it was a lot harder to keep the weeds under control...

 But, we sure did enjoy all of this food!

Memorial Day

We decided to plant a large garden this year.  Unfortunately, Tj is never around and when he is, he has school work to do.  Finally, we had a day where we had a little bit of free time.  We borrowed a tiller from our friends.  I had to go teach BodyPump from 9-10, so I left Tj and the two older kids to till the garden.  I figured when I got home they would have it mostly done.  Well, the tiller doesn't really work.  So, Tj dug the garden up by hand.  It took almost the entire day and he only made it about half way.  It was frustrating.  I went over the dirt after he dug it and got all the big grass clumps out.  That was quite the chore! 

 This little cutie is 15 months old today!

 And this is as far as we got.  We are thinking this might have to do us.

  After a long, hot, sweaty day what do you do??  Jump in the pool of course!