Little baby, adorable chickens....awwww, so cute.
3 different types...Mom knew what kinds. I can't remember. I just know they are cute, cuter, and cutest :0)
But we have one surprised and excited boy who can't wait to take care of his baby chicks...I'm so excited for him.
I can't wait to have my own fresh eggs. I hope I have enough to share :0) 
He was "Super Sucker" for Holloween this year. I'm not sure if you know but Seth is the author of a very popular comic book in 4th grade and it's very popular in Berlin Hts. :0) So he decided to go as his favorite super hero. He's the defender of all sweets!!
This was at Christmas. I love him! That's actually my first "Christmas Sweater" and I am making it a tradition :0) Make fun of me and I'll kill you...just kidding about the killing part. (not very Christmasy is that ;0)
The top coming down...
They put it in the chopper and it was GONE!! 
Second part of the tree...
Then, of course, the result...
They trimmed a few others on the side where they were touching the roof and electric wires...
This was Seth's first wrestling practice, he did really well and was really excited to learn.
In yoga this was the cobra pose, I noticed they used a lot of yoga poses during stretch time.
Rolling down the mat...They took the first practice kinda slow and they taught, going in for your partners leg and then your partner would then do the same...then they learned step 2 of that move which was knock them to the mat and Seth wasn't sure how much he liked being knocked down....he hurt his elbow and face (when his elbow hit his face).
After the first practice we had one sweaty, wiped out boy...
Second practice started out the same way with the stretching...
and rolling...
then they paired him up with this kid (as you can see is pretty big) they started showing new moves where you go in and grab you partners leg and pull up till his foot is up by your shoulder....well, every time this kid would grab Seth's foot and get it that far up Seth would hit the mat. Wham..
Seth hurt his wrist by landing on it and came over to me and said he wasn't sure if he really wanted to do this anymore. I told him "let's just finish this practice and we don't have to come back if that's your decision" He said "Ok" so the coach yelled "everyone on the wall and watch the next move"....so he has his high school volunteer come up and show the second move and it was grab the leg and pull up like they did before, hold it there, then with your other leg sweep your opponents other leg and watch him crash to the mat. I looked at Seth and he was looking at me and was shaking his head NO and moving his hands like "lets get the freak show out of here" I started laughing and waved him over and said "let's go" I told the coach this just wasn't our game...
Aww, how cute is he...well I look out my back window yesterday and he was running around the backyard. I whistled and he came right in the house (mud all over). It was raining so hard all day, I felt bad for him. I couldn't leave him out there for fear he would go out in the street and as you know we live on a pretty busy highway and if you know me I'd feel way to responsible :0) He was a really, really good dog. He didn't have a collar on so I didn't know where he lived so I called the police station to see if anyone called missing their dog and they told me to call the sheriff, so I called the sheriff and they told me to call the dog warden...I called and she went over her list of people who called and no one with his description...poor boy. She said that she could come get him and I was hesitant at first because I didn't want him to go the "POUND" you know...so I told her this and she said he would have a better chance finding his owner there and they really spoil all their dogs that come in...that changed my mind (plus, he wasn't a big fan of guinea pigs, barking at them everytime one moved) but he was a really good boy he knew all the common tricks, sit, lay down, speak...I secretly named him Charlie Brown. I'm going to check the papers daily to see if anyone is missing their dog...
Who are these kids?? We started Seth's birthday at the Science Center in Cleveland (I forgot the camera..grrrr) which was a ton of fun and even watched Dinosaurs Alive at the Omnimax Theatre which is totally breathtaking....It was Finnigan's first time at the Omnimax so it was fun to watch his reaction. The Omnimax is a dome theatre and is HUGE...very cool. Then we came home and had pizza and then the boys went next door to do the treasure hunt that Jim and I did for them before we left...It was a big hit and the kids loved it. They found their bag of loot at the end. They found their first clue on the back door and had to take 15 step and turn left and so on...really fun to watch.
This is the gangsta picture with the bling from the "loot bag"
Happy boy opening up gifts...this is from Aunt Lorie, so cool
His dad and I got him a tattoo machine...we are "new age parents :0)" He gave me my first tattoo.
An anchor and the word mom or from my view wow! I told him he sees mom and I see WOW..heehee.
They each took turns giving tattoos, here's the result.
Then it was Dad's turn...he got a eagle head below his real tattoo. Now he's double cool.
Then our awesome cake that grandma bought for us a cookies and cream icecream cake from Coldstone Creamery....fell off the wagon and totally had a couple pieces of this bad boy and sure enough it was the best cake I've ever had!
We had a lot of fun and Seth is now 10 years old. I can't believe it. It just seems like yesterday he was born. He is turning into such a great kid learning his likes and dislikes and it's been an honor to be his guide through his journey so far. :0)
Green peppers are getting big, I've picked 2 so far for fried potatoes. So yummy!
Jalepeno Peppers are doing great. Put some of these in our fried potatoes and they were almost to hot! Also made hummus the other day and added one and it was soooooo good.
Hungarian Hot peppers, I can these for pizza and sandwiches...but also add them to our salsa that we make every year.
Tomatoes and the corn... I staked the romas so you can spot them. Last year I didn't and they took forever to pick. Plus I think this is the only thing I would've changed about planting the garden this year....I would've planted them farther apart. Owell, this year is really about figuring it out myself. Last year I was a bit overwelmed, Papaw and I planted over 100 tomato plant and boy, oh, boy is that alot. This year about 50 and I hope we'll be able to pick them without stepping on whole bunch...we'll see. Live and learn, right.
I have my eye on this one...it will be the first batch of fried green tomatoes and it will probably be this week! Happy days ahead.
Close up of the roma's they are doing awesome!
Cucumbers, green onion, and you can see the beet tops right behind them. I just put straw under the tomatoes the other day, it worked so well last year by keeping the moisture in the ground and keeping the weeds back, also keeps the tomatoes off the dirt so they won't rot before you have a chance to pick them, but I had enough left for under the cucumbers so hopefully they do the same thing for them. I made the best sweet pickles last year. Some I added a habenaro pepper and they came out sooooo good!
This is our small bed, it's exploding! 1 cherry tomato, some lettuce that still needs thinned out, carrots, and about 8 eggplants (fingerling, classic and Dennisa gave me a ghost plant, which will be a white eggplant) so excited to see everything do so well.
Baby eggplant, won't be long now! Baba gnouche here I come!
Close up of our beautiful lettuce.
Can't leave out the fruit trees, peaches are getting so big. I hope everything doesn't get ripe at the same time!
Pears...again, getting so big. Not pictured are the apples, we have 3 trees and only one did fairly ok this year. I think the frost hit them again. I had to go out in early March and spray the peach, pear trees down to get the frost off but I had a hose emergency and it was spraying me more than the trees so I never made it back to the apple trees, I was frozen! :0)
And I couldn't forget our Scare Jane, her hair is a bit messy these days but I really think she's helping keep the critters away too. She's so pretty. Ok, well this is what I've been working so hard on and now I'm back to the strawberries that I've weeded for the 3rd time this year, they are blooming again which I'm happy about because I don't have enough jelly yet. Jim takes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches everyday so I need MORE! Also the raspberries, blackberries and blueberries are in...I've picked the raspberries once, the blackberries none and the blueberries are almost finished...shoo wee, I'm telling you. I'll figure out a system on how to keep up by the end of the year...I hope. I have to tell you though this is my most favorite thing to do and it is also the hardest working job I've ever done. Papaw said that he would do something everyday and I believe that that's exactly the only way to keep up with everything is to do something everyday! He also said that the reason his garden was so big is that he really enjoyed watching everything grow and I've learned that it's my exact feelings too. I get really excited to go out there and see my beet are already the size of a walnut and the beans are blooming...there's nothing like it and I'm really loving my life right now and it also makes me feel like I'm giving my boys the best possible food ever. Good gardening everybody and thanks for letting me ramble.
