You say Tomato, I say Tomato.....either way I have a lot of them!

Yesterday I went out to pick tomatoes from the garden....and I filled these 2 popcorn bowls to the top....actually they are falling out they are so full!!!

Mmmmm dont they look good?

And now I have this many tomatoes!!! I guess I know what I will be doing this weekend....

Any Given Sunday

I finally had a weekend home with no major plans! AWwwwww so I got some stuff done around here!!!
Saturday Bob and I made about 2 gallons of salsa from our Sun-gold Tomatoes. Super good stuff!!! I then went to Home Depot to get flashing and caulking to fix my gutters and roof. Well while I was there I just had to check out their clearance rack of plants! This is a great time of year to get sale perennials! And oh boy did I!!! They had half gallons for $1.50! Score!!!! I got several Black Eyed Susan's, some lavender and a few other flowers. That made my day! Oh and I did get the flashing and caulk.....

 All they needed was some water! I love how cheery they look in the garden.

Who knew a pile of dirt would be a source of entertainment for this boy for hours and hours! Ok well anyone with a 7 year old boy would know that....He has been building jumps for his bmx bike and tracks for his monster trucks out of this left over dirt pile for weeks.

Seeing that there was going to be rain in the forecast I knew I had to get cracking on my gutters....I did put it off all summer after all. I was able to caulk the gutter over my back deck, clean the gutters and some parts of the roof, put in flashing along the front garage and caulk the holes. I am feeling very proud of myself for this job. Home-ownership is awesome and very rewarding!
And it did rain on Monday and guess what....NO WATER ON MY DECK!!!! Yes!!!!! Success!!!!

Love them!

You are looking at the Quarterback for the Red Cardinals......He is a stud. He LOVES football!

The Moose is finally starting to loose his teeth! 2 on the bottom in the last 2 weeks and his top right is about to fall out! I am hoping it does before picture day!!!

I LOVE THIS GIRLS STYLE!!!! She is unique that's for sure!!!

And yes, I encourage her uniqueness!!! Be free, be an individual. THAT's MY GIRL!!!

My Green Thumb!

My GIANT Tomato!!!!

Apparently I have a GREEN Thumb!!! This is the first year I have successfully grown and produced tomatos. I have attempted many, many times and have never gotten them past the green stage. Well not this year!!!!

 My front yard is in full bloom and looking great. The seeds took some time to get going, and not all took, but the ones that did look great! The Marigolds in the front are so pretty, I have been collecting seeds from them to replant next year. And the Cosmos are taller than Lucy and just keep on blooming!

 My mom got me this cute maple when she came down last month. Its just what we were needing to balance out the yard. I Love it!

 And the gourds have taken over! Its so fun to look around at the different ones coming up! We are going to have a very nice display for the Fall/Harvest season.

And now for the tomato's!!!!

This has been a very fun year of gardening. I am very happy with what I was able to grow. I have to date canned 18 pints of zucchini (I am also shredding and freezing it), and 20 pints of tomatos. And many more to go! We have also been making salsa out of the sungold tomatos that Bob and I both have. So So Good!!!

Warrior Dash!!!!

This weekend marked my first ever Warrior Dash.....if you have never heard of this event I would recommend looking it up on line. Its a 3.18 hellish mile course with 14 obstacles. The obstacles include trudging over logs in water up to your neck, crawling over mesh netting, climbing over wrecked cars, running through hanging tires and running over tires on the ground, climbing over many walls, sliding down fireman poles, crawling under barbed wire, leaping over fire and crawling through mud. All of this and hills in between every obstacle. It was hard.
Bob and I headed out Friday night to our camp and met up with some friends of mine from Wrestling.
We spent Saturday morning prepping physically and mentally. Lets also keep in mind that this was the hottest weekend of the summer reaching about 100 deg.
Moms Locked and Loaded was our theme and away we went! Camo paint and all!

 

Micha and I on our way to the dash!

My support! Bob was a great boyfriend and took care of Moka, took photos and waited for me at the finish line! He did say that he is all in for next years Dash!!!

Dont mess with these moms!!!!

 Taking off at the starting gate! This is a huge 2 day event with Waves running every 30 min from 9am-6pm. Each wave can have up to 450 people. I think Saturday there were about 5400 people that ran.

After the Dash! We are Warriors!!!

I felt like I could do anything after that run! Wow what an awesome experience! I LOVED it! Had that same smile on my face the whole time!!!

 

My warrior hat and medal!

 

Warrior Dash....Survived!!!!

9-11 Tribute Field of Flags

 The City of Salem put together this wonderful memorial to honor the fallen on September 11th 2001. Very moving and emotional walking through the thousands of flags for every person lost in the tragedy that was that day.

The Flags have the names of every lost life from 9/11.

These flags represent the fallen soldiers in the Northwest, each flag had a plaque with the name of the person. Talk about an emotional walk.

A little bit of this and a little bit of that

I have been trying to do a better job at blogging and I would have to say I think I am doing pretty good! I was noticing that I already have more posts this year than I had all year last year. YAY ME!
We are finishing up our first week of school. Already going full blast with soccer, football, PTC and so on. Its going to be a very full year!


My beautiful kids on the way to Lummi Island last weekend. I just love them soooo much!


Caymus stole Isis' stroller for a cozy seat on his favorite log at Isle Aire beach.


Little Isis Moon!! She is so fun and such a little sweetie! She even said Lucy when we got there! That made Lucy's day! And she gave us all kisses....


My little ray of sunshine! My mini me! On our way to Family Camp.

And the happy campers!!!

My big happy camper!

Caymus came out of his room the other day with this awesome dinosaur he built out of legos. He followed the directions and built the whole thing all by himself! SWEET!!!

Moose the Quarterback! He is kicking butt on the football field and he LOVES it!!!

So that closes out this week and a little of last weekend...Now onto this weekend where I am off to do the Warrior Dash.....the craziest freaking day of your life....or so they say!

First Day of School

Tuesday was the kids first day of school for the 2011-2012 school year. Lucy is in 3rd grade and Caymus in 2nd. Hard to belive....They really do grow up to fast.

They were both really excited because Lucy has Mrs Rodgers this year. She was Caymus' 1st grade teacher last year and got moved up to 3rd. She is a wonderful teacher and really makes every student feel loved. Caymus has Mrs Lowe who was Lucy's teacher last year. Also a wonderful teacher and she will really be good for Caymus. As if that wasent enough, both kids have a majority of their best friends in their classes.....this very well may be the best year ever!!

I let them pick out their own clothes, I love to see their styles shine through!



My girl the bright, funny, kind 3rd grader!

My man! Funny, sweet, smart, all around awesome 2nd grader.

Family Camp 2011

Labor Day weekend has been our family camp out for many many years now....and it grows each year. My mom has 4 siblings, each sibling has 1-4 kids, several of the older ones are hitched and now reproducing....so as you can see its growing rapidly!!! I think at the most we had 35 people all around the campfire. Awesomeness!!!

Our little family headed up north on Thursday, got to Lummi around 4:30 and headed strait to the beach. We then had our Coking.com Inc first annual BBQ on the beach all day Friday. This was lots of fun and we had great weather....If I get some pictures I will do a separate post about that adventure.


It was up and at it Saturday morning, packing, loading and heading out to camp....we no sooner got there and set up and a big group headed off to float the river. Lucy, Caymus and my dad went on that ride. The kids could hardly wait! They were so excited!!!

My little water lovers packed into the truck....

And off they go!!! Not to be seen again for another 3 hours!

Little miss Isis sure had a lot of fun! That is one busy little girl! I really like this picture, reminds me of the Carl books, just sub in a Rottweiler instead of the English Bull Dog. Pika sure is a good girl and very patient with the kids.

Lucy drifting in after 3 hours in the river. She was ready to go again right away!
I cant keep that girl out of the water!

Sunday morning community breakfast. And there is always a fire going, gotta love that!!!

Caymus really enjoyed playing with his crazy boy cousins! What a wild bunch!

And we are off to the river again! This group did the 45 min ride. Dez and I joined in this time.


Lucy loves her girl cousins....or is it the other way around...little Kestin sure thinks Lucy is cool!!! What a doll!!!


We had a football toss competition....I made it to the semi finals then choked....


This is really an awesome camp spot, totally private and big enough for all of us!


My family! We had another successful family camp!!!