Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Panorama!!!

I had some fun with a new app on my phone....making panorama photos. Enjoy!


Back and side yard. The new lawn is coming in nicely. And we got the stone boarder laid so no more rocks in the grass!

Back corner, ugly side of the yard on the left.....

Front yard and house. Its all coming together! The before and after pictures are quite rewarding....All this in less than a year!

Side and back, my vision is coming together!

And my sunflowers are starting to bloom! Love it!

Thursday, July 28, 2011

July Garden update

The garden is producing!!! Here is the first zucchini from the garden! It was delicious!

This is what happens when you break open some fermented gourds in your compost pile! Very cool! I cant wait to see what they grow!

The back yard, to the right are the apple trees that are doing great!


Raised beds, the lettuce and spinach in the left bed are done and gone to flower. I need to pull them out and replant. They did great and we got some really good salad outta there! The tomatoes and peppers in the right are taking off like crazy! I am going to have a TON of tomatoes!!!

Pumpkins and sunflowers are loving their sunny spot on the side of the house!

Front yard is finally filling in. Seeds take forever to grow.....


I put strawberries and a sun-gold tomato in the front bed, thats been a fun little treat!

My herb bed is really looking nice, and the grass is finally growing. Apparently grass needs a lot of water to grow......oops!

Summer time and the livin is easy.....


This summer is flying by as they always do....We are finally getting some good weather. Its been much cooler than usual and a lot more rain. My garden appreciates it, but the humans sure dont.

After our month + of weekends at the coast we finally spent a few weekends at home.....one weekend it rained, so we just chilled indoors. The second weekend was hot, thank goodness because we had out door birthday parties to attend!

Lucy and I chillin at a friends bday party.

My little nut job! What a goof! He actually looked really cute in this hat, but refused to give me his model face for the picture......


She had no problem with her model face.....


The kids started swim lessons.....2 weeks, 4 days a week. They are loving it and doing a great job! This should help with some of our water fears.....


On the 26th we celebrated the kitties 1st birthday! The kids each picked out a yummy can of cat food for them and we all sang happy birthday. The cats were appreciative....

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Lummi Escape

A rare occasion took place last weekend. Bob and I took a little trip up to Lummi Island with out kids. So we played like adults.......As you can see mom and I are very mature adults......


What do you think of our shades? Very cool I know!
The weekend was filled with beach combing, a little kayaking, eating seafood, watching the sun set, rummage sales, farmers market, fireworks, chasing a 15 month old, and lots of laughs.


As I said, fireworks......boys will be boys and want to blow things up. And they did, and it was very entertaining!!! I love this action shot of Bob.


Little miss Isis Moon came to hang with us for a few days, it was very fun. She is a cutie!!!

We took off to the farmers market and I packed her around in my front pack, she loved it and so did I!

Visited Mom at work. Bought some plants for the garden, always fun!

Dinner out at the sushi place on the marina. Great sushi and then a really nice walk admiring the marina gardens.

This is just from one morning at the beach.....I killed Bob in our little competition.....

He did pretty good to......dont let his sad face fool you!!!

And on our way back home we stopped off at Grandma Toots' for some coffee, strawberries in ice cream and a garden tour!

Awwww now back to reality......I kinda liked the escape......

Monday, June 27, 2011

Just a little trip to Seaside

This weekend we packed up the car and headed to Seaside/Cannon Beach/ Gearhart/ Astoria for some good ol fashioned fun!!!

Bob's brother and kids are in town for a visit so that was a good excuse to head out. We totally lucked out with the weather, sunny blue skies the whole time!

Saturday we packed full! Including breakfast at the Pig n' Pancake, walked the beach in CB, Coffee at the Bald Eagle, bumper cars in Seaside, ice cream at Flashbacks, lunch at Pizza Harbor, hiked around Ft Stevens, played on the beach....

My little ones on the beach in CB. This beach is the reason I am in Oregon, fell in love with it at a young age and it called me back.

Goofy children with the captain.
Bob and his dad John waiting for all of us to decide what to do next....sorry guys this could take a while....

Caymus and Bob in the bumper cars....those Stockenberg boys are dangerous!

Lucy and Judy (Bobs mom) watching the big kids go on the tilt a whorl.
Bob, brother Ron, dad John and their big brother John behind the pole.

Enjoying their ice cream at Flashbacks.

Bob and I chilling in the car while the kids play on the beach.....it was so super windy!!!!


Sunday we all headed out to the Sunday market in Astoria, had some great lunch, browsed through the booths and said farewell to the family. We then headed to the beach one last time before going back home.

Caymus and Bob buried Lucy alive!

She loved it.
Isnt she cute!!!
Boys will be boys!!!

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Welcome Summer

On the last day of school we had a little ice cream, tie-dye party here. All the kids had shirts that we dyed and oh man was that fun!!! They all turned out so cool! Cant wait to do it again.
Lucy then had a sleep over with her friend Tulah and they formed a rock band with Moose the next day. They are the "Rockin Tie-Dyes"!

My girl! She is looking so grown up! We braided her hair and this was the outcome. Beautiful! I cant believe she is going to be a 3rd grader in the fall!

The yard is taking shape! Here i have pumpkins, watermelon, sunflowers and a little corn growing in the far bed. Mint and little xmas tree in the near pots and a really cool piece of beach wood we found on our last trip to Seaside!

Lettuce, spinach and peas make up the near bed and tomatoes, peppers and onions make up the far one! They look great and are really taking off! We have been eating the salad daily!

Bob hooked me up with this cool trellis so I stuck it in my herb bed for some height, looks cool. Then we re worked the lawn and seeded again. Hope this time it works!
Bob and I got away last weekend for some beach therapy. Tried clamming again and didn't do well, only got a few, just enough for a taste and a hunger for those little buggers! But we did have a great time anyway!


My Sunday morning coffee, garden book and beach glass collection!
Awwwww bliss!

The front yard is taking shape also. We got 2 more pieces of drift wood for the front, I was in need of some hard-scape, looks great!

My baskets are awesome! Thanks Bob!! I love them!

Monday, June 6, 2011