Scrapbooking

Mama had the idea of making a section in my scrapbook about friendship. So, I decided to ask each of my friends to make two pages for my scrapbook. One about themselves and one about friendship in general. However, the design of the pages had to reflect them. The outcome was exactly what I was looking for. Here are some pictures:


The opening pages ~












































Tara Yen's pages ~










































Kathryn Yen's pages ~










































Kathryn Inyart's pages ~









































Hadassah Ortega's pages ~










































Thank you ladies! You all did a wonderful job!




Note: You can click on the pictures of the pages to make them bigger so that you can read them .
Also, I am still waiting for a few pages I will post them when I get them.

Gardening

Last Friday our family planted some veggies in our garden. We do not have a "green thumb" so we do not now how this is going to work out, but so far everything seems to be going fine. :) We planted three different kinds of tomatoes ( five tomato plants altogether) two pepper plants and two Kohlrabi Kossak. Kohlrabi Kossak are supposed to have the texture of a water chestnut, we had never even heard of them until recently so I cannot speak from experience. :) We also planted some Lambs Ear and transplanted quite a few hostas. Lambs Ear are really neat plants because the leaves feel almost identical to a lambs ear! We had a lot of fun planting everything and look forward to watching it all grow.





















Aunt Ruby's German Green Tomatoes
And in the back are Golden Boy Tomatoes.





















Our "baby" pepper plants.





















The Kohlrabi Kossak had to be planted
in pots so that the bunnies would not eat it.

Update - Part II

Mama's Birthday


For Mama's birthday (May 24th) we decided to visit a park not far from our house that our neighbors had recently told us about. The name of this park is not one you will likely forget - although Mama did forget it while we were driving there; thankfully she remembered it upon seeing the sign - Seward Bluffs. Well, evidently, bluffs is not the only thing this park has to boast about, it has a stream (or crick, some would say) running through it where many a crawdad lives. Yes, you read that right - crawdad. The boys had a delightful time catching these little creatures, while we girls were glad to move onto a less crowded part of the pond.:)















Wading





















Gabriel making use of some driftwood.
















Exploring















Josiah giving Isaiah a helping hand.




















Isaiah heading back to the shallower part.
















Hadassah helping Josiah across? :)




















Hadassah using the " old fashioned" pump.

Papa and Mama talking.



Memorial Day


On Memorial Day we had a relaxing day. However, we did make it out for a walk - albeit it was a warm one :) - at the golf course that afternoon.

Taking a short cut to the bridge.





















Papa and Gabriel look off in the distance.





















Mama





















Isaiah looking for used tees.




Altogether, it was a great weekend.