Potato Harvest

Also last week, we decided it was high time to do some garden maintenance. It was a tough summer on the garden. First, we had rollie pollie bugs that mowed down every thing I planted. Then, as the tomatoes grew, I realized that somewhere along the line, we mixed up the romas and the yellow pear salad type tomatoes. That meant I had 6 yellow pear tomato plants in the garden instead of 6 romas. There went my ideas of freezing a bunch of spaghetti sauce. Then those giant yellow pear plants grew like crazy and smothered the peppers while we were on a trip out of town. Add in the fact that it has only rained 0.37 inch the month of August, and you have one unhappy plot of plants no matter how you slice it.

One of the things that did grow well (besides the pole beans that crept up the old bunk bed ladder) was the potato. We set out to dig them up.

As Jim turned over the soil, Annalise would point out a newly unearthed spud.

This was the largest, most oddly shaped one of the whole bunch. All that and the kids still won't eat mashed potatoes.

Children's Museum

New blog, new problems. Sigh. bear with me. I have to get everything the way it used to to be.

Last week, Annalise hit a major milestone. She started keeping her pull up dry at night. We really truly thought that this day would be far in the future. To keep it up, we have been offering her incentives. A trip to the children's museum was one reward. Plus, it was the added extra bonus that it was just a Mom and Annalise date. No Evie or Dad (well, it was a school day)

We did lots of fun things like draw dragons.

Sit in a little red corvette in the rock star exhibit.

Share a ride on the carousel and took our time going through the Barbie exhibit. Which, by the way, I have determined was completely set up for grown ups as there were as many moms and grandmas in there dragging kids in to see all the old Barbie stuff. The good part is that I think I have a kid who may be interested in Barbie and is inheriting the 1981 Barbie Dreamhouse. I can't wait to play with it again.

Aaron and Janis's Wedding

We journeyed to Cleveland this weekend to witness the wedding of Jim's cousin, Janis, to her handsome groom, Aaron. The rain couldn't dampen the beautiful day.

Congratulations to Janis and Aaron. Wishing you a lifetime of happiness.

3 years ago, we attending Janis's sister's, Christine's, wedding at the same church. At that wedding, Annalise was a tired wreck of a kid. Well, guess what? Same church, same grumpy kid. At least this time she fell asleep on the way to the church. She woke up just before the ceremony, but couldn't sit with us because the bridal party was entering the church. She flopped around on Jim until the sign of peace. Then they came over to sit with us and I had the wonderful opportunity of breaking up fights with the two girls and having them climb all over me. Talk about enjoying the wedding....Hrumpf.

After the ceremony, they did perk up enough to get along for us to snap this picture. They are looking pretty good all dressed up.

We sat with Grandma and Grandpa at the reception.

The girls watched as the cake was cut.

Grandma and her sister, Aunt Jane, were thinking about occupying kids and brought all kinds of stuff for the girls to work on. Thanks!

Finally the dancing began and all the families of the little girls got out there on the floor to cut it up.

We had a great time and even lasted until 9:45. It's been said that you can judge the success of a party based on the tantrum thrown when you return home. Well, Annalise threw a big one, so it must have been a great time!

We returned home on Sunday and were picking up apples that had fallen in the yard. Evie got her first bee sting. We treated it right away and it doesn't look too bad. She consoled herself by looking at Aunt Becky's blog and pictures of her new cousin.

The new blog

The old blog was starting to get full and I was noticing that some of my old posts were missing. In order not to lose any more of the log of my children's lives, I had to start a new one now, so change your bookmarks to this page. Don't worry, the old blog is still out there in the interweb so you can go back and check out history any time you like.