"Our Vacation!" Part One

Daddy and Mr. Marsh are such good friends!

Ryan being a good sport

Sarah and her friend

My parents and brothers (well you can't see Michael)

Ryan

These next photos may be hard to see, but they are Hannah Marsh, Daniel Marsh, and Mr. Marsh jumping off the cliff!

Jamie and Rebekah had a really fun time!

Emily

Daddy and Michael

Rachel and Sarah

This post is way overdue! Sorry!!! A couple of weeks ago we went with our sweet friends the Marshes to a state park for a hike, swim, canoeing, and a picnic. It was so much fun! We took a long hike (well maybe not so long) then the little kids swam while the Marshes jumped off the cliff into the water. The cliff was about ten feet high. Maybe? Anyway! Then we hiked back to canoe for a while. That was fun! We (the Pritchetts) had never been canoeing before, but the Marshes had

Lettuce From Friends!

A gift from our friends the Boyd's was a much needed blessing. They had an over abundance of lettuce and offered it to us. We were more than happy to take it off their hands! We ate the last of it last night and it was so good, it is amazing how much better homegrown food is then store bought! Theirs was tender and sweet while store bought is tough and chewy! 

Thank You Friends!

Our Garden Update!!! - Part Two

Wheat from our backyard. It really is wheat! And we really can eat it. And we really don't know where it came from!

Our bulbs we had to dig up to make room for the strawberries!

One giant sunflower.

Our Rudbeckia garden. It is so beautiful in the fall when it blooms.

Note: The tilled land in the photo above is our neighbor's garden!

Zinnias

Little Zinnias

A long row of flowers ready to burst into bloom.

My (Jessica) herb garden-off to a rocky start, but doing OK now.

More herbs

Onions - soon to be through

Erin's sweet "taters" and "normal taters"

Bean plant and bean pod

 Tomatoes...

And more tomatoes!

Here is the rest of our garden in photos. It is having a hard time right now in the heat, but it's trying! It is a lot of fun to go out in our yard and see all the little plants growing up. Very exciting! We have two banana peppers, cucumbers, and squash. We also have zinnias and bush beans.

Rachel's Board!

This was created by Rachel! 

Isn't it creative?

She got the idea and carried it away! She painted a board from the yard and with stickers and ribbon finished it off! 

It was a fun surprise because we had no idea what she was doing!

Our Garden Update!!! - Part One

Our Tomatoes!!!

Corn and okra

Okra!

Peppers, Marigolds, and Tomatoes

Cucumber bloom

Cucumber

Rachel's Garden

More of Rachel's Garden

Rachel's Beautiful flower!

I don't know what it is!

Ryan's Garden - tomatoes, beans, and corn!

Our lettuce - it is usually bigger, we just picked.

Our broccoli is soon to die in the heat. So Emily is planting tomatoes underneath.

Sweet Emily in her garden. Working hard!

This is our garden update! We have been outside all morning weeding, watering, and planting. I planted another batch of corn and watermelons. They all are doing really well! We have eaten snow peas, broccoli, lettuce, and herbs so far. And tomatoes are not far behind! 

We are working hard at NOT letting the weeds in. It is hard, but we must keep at it.

A Grandmother's Gift!!!

This past week our maternal grandmother (GG) came down from Tennessee to celebrate my mom's birthday. Happy Birthday!!! :) Anyway as her gift she helped us make container gardens. We went to Lowes and after an hour of talking with the lady from Lowes we came home with all our stuff. We also made hanging baskets for the porch. In the hanging baskets are some Calibrachoa. And as soon as I find the tags that they came with I will tell you what the other plants are! :) So... let's hear it for a fun gift from GG!

This is our grandmother. It was taken at Christmas, but I forgot to take a picture of her this trip!