Our outdoor additions

We have two recent additions to our backyard. Jeremy's family at Christmas, graciously bought us and the kids a play-scape. So over the past few weeks, Jeremy has been building the play-scape along with his two helpers. The kids, especially Ella, have been very excited about it and were anxious for him to finish. Ella prayed that he would finish soon quite often in her prayers!

Here they are enjoying the play-scape when it was done.
The ice cream truck came by. They had never seen an ice cream truck before. Perfect ending for an afternoon of hard work and play.


We also decided to try a garden. We have been a little slow in getting the garden going because of recent rains and a tilled-up sprinkler head, but we finally have everything planted. We planted sugar snap peas, carrots, onions, jalepenos, peppers, yellow and green squash, basil, oregano and thyme. Our tomato plants will be going in later this week. The garden gets full sun until around 3pm when shade from the play-scape starts to creep over the garden. The sugar snap peas are doing very well. They have started poking up through the ground. It feels very rewarding and exciting to know we can grow some of our own food.

Ella helped plant the garden, a little. She has been more interested in her own sunflower and lima bean plants she planted from her home preschool. They are growing great! She planted the rest of the seeds from those packets randomly in our flower beds.