A New Family Member

My sister Kristin and her husband, Keith welcomed a baby girl, Alexa Grace into the world on May 26. She is a cute little peanut weighing in a 6lbs 4oz. What another blessing. Levi is happy to have another cousin, although when we went to visit them at the hospital he thought it was "my sister". Does he know what he is in for at the end of August..? :)

How Does Your Garden Grow?

A few weeks ago in the Home and Garden section of the Sunday edition of The Grand Rapids Press, an article about gardening perked my interest. I started reading sections of the article out loud to Ryan(by the way, one of his pet peeves) and he too seemed interested in trying out the concept of square foot gardening.
I checked this website out www.squarefootgardening.com also here is the article from the Press:
http://www.mlive.com/homeandgarden/index.ssf/2010/05/square_foot_gardening_produces.html

I have never had or tried to garden before so this is all a learning process. But hopefully, a worthwhile one. I have always thought it would be nice to be able to have a garden and pick the veggies from your backyard and not the store. So, Ryan, Levi and I all went to Home Depot to get our supplies and seeds. We actually did a 2x8 foot garden and I picked out the veggies to try for each square. Ryan built the box in our backyard and I planted. We will not see anything for a month or so but Levi and I will keep watering and watching for our plants to grow.We will have to see. I will post some pictures later this summer with hopefully a more mature and ready to harvest garden.

Tulip Time

This past week Grandma Roedema took Levi, Allison and Katelyn and I to Tulip Time. We had a fun morning at Dutch Village. We went on the slide, carousel and swings. We also saw goats and bunnies in the petting barn that they had there. We watched some Dutch dancing and Levi and Katelyn also Dutch danced and became Honorable Dutch dancers for a day with stickers. Of course, we enjoyed looking at all the pretty tulips too. After a busy morning, we ate some lunch by the pond and watched and fed the ducks and headed home.