Garden pics

Our garden is really taking off these days, with the tomatoes (all 36 plants!) growing like crazy along with beans, corn, herbs, lettuce, carrots and peas.






We've been picking tons of peas and harvesting lettuce over the last couple of months. I just pulled our first bunch of carrots and found 4 ripe cherry tomatoes! This is our first try at gardening and so far it's a success! We'll see if we can figure out a way to use all those tomatoes though! At least we're sharing the labor and the harvest with a couple of other families!

Beach weekend

This weekend we headed to the beach for the 4th. We went out Wednesday night with some friends and Stefan got to go surfing Wednesday night and Thursday. Thursday was beautiful and we took the kids to the beach for a long time.

Thursday night Stefan's sister and her family came down, and the rest of the family arrived on Friday morning. We celebrated two kid's birthdays and the 4th of July all in one, like every year. It was a lot of fun to be with everyone but the weather was pretty miserable on Friday and Saturday so the kids were stuck inside. That's not so bad for 2 year old girls, but 4 and 5 year old boys get a little stir-crazy. Of course, Sunday morning when we had to leave the sun came out! Oh well, we love Oregon for other reasons!

Aidan enjoys his crepes

Bridget's hair is long enough for a (tiny) ponytail! Very handy for the beach.

All 4 cousins in the morning (Aidan and Evan are sporting awesome pirate tattoos)

Omi reading to the girls . . . serious cuteness