Summer lovin'

Don't you just love this face? This is my cousin's little boy, who I think may have a very large chunk of my heart. I also believe that if he told me he wanted me to rob banks and do lots of other illegal things, I might. He's that adorable. Instead, he is the strong, silent type. (Which is one more reason I love him so.)


Gah, I love this. I could just eat him up!

Kelly, Kelly, quite contrary, how does your garden grow.....

......and grow and grow and grow?


Our garden has totally taken over our summer lives. We literally have to pick every.single.day. Jordan went out of town for work at the end of June and it was all I could do not to spray round up on our cucumbers. I will say that MANY have benefited from this garden. More than one family has made their own pickles. CVS customers were even given free veggies one day when no one at work could bear to take home any more.


It has been fun.....and exhausting. I have thought A LOT about how in the world people did this when they had a blue million children at home. There is no way. I would have sold my kids in a yard sale by now if I had them (a yard sale! Who has time for a yard sale when there are pickles to be canned?!?)

I have also learned that if you HAVE to have a clean house all the time, a garden where canning is involved is not for you. My kitchen has been a total disaster zone since the beginning of the cucumbers. I have handled it well, but I have been very thankful that school was over before this began or Jordan might have been on the market for a new wife. :)

I kid, I kid. There is no way he is getting rid of me. That has been the best part of all of this. We have done it all together. Every jar (almost 65) of pickles, every jar of salsa, every frozen pack of squash or zucchini we have done together.


And that, I would never spray round up on :)