Garden

I've always wanted a garden. When we moved in our house there were 2 garden boxes in the back yard. They aren't huge, but not small either. The larger box is about 8x8 and the smaller box 7x3. Since I've never had a garden before, we chose to just keep these instead of making it bigger. My biggest fear was that we'd dig up 1/2 the yard, plant a garden, and nothing would grow. So I dug up all the grass, rented a tiller, bought some garden soil (since it was mostly clay) and went at it.

In the larger box we planted:
6 tomato plants (Celebrity, Roma, Beefsteak, Early Girl, and 2 cherry)
Green and yellow bell peppers
2 jalapenos
Zucchini
Pickling Cucumbers

In the smaller box we planted:
4 Basil
2 Thyme
2 Parsley
2 Cilantro
4 Chives
3 Rosemary
4 Arugula
2 Strawberry

When we got done planting, I though, gee, we could have planted more. Little did I know that our plants would EXPLODE!!! and now our space is too small. It used to be easy to weed, but now I can't even see the ground around our plants. We should have gone for the bigger space...but there's always next year.

We've gotten a few strawberries (the birds have gotten more than us), I've been cutting herbs for recipes, and we have little tomato and peppers growing. I go out there every day to check progress and pull a few weeds.

Here are some pictures:

Herb Garden


Veggies (tomatoes in the back, zucchini front right, cucumbers front left, peppers in the middle)

My Dog Won't Stop Vomiting

We've had Fiona for about 5-6 weeks now. We love her. She's so cute and funny and always learning new things. In her quest to discover everything, she's taking up eating things in the yard (leaves, sticks, mulch, grass, mud, etc.) Because of this she barfs all over the house. Sometimes she just coughs up barf and swallows it back down before it hits the floor, sometimes she projectiles all over everything. She's barfed in the bed twice now, in the middle of the night, mid-sleep. I've talked to the vet about this and have even had her in for the vet to look at. His thoughts...training training, training. So now we have to take her out on a leash EVERY time she goes out and snap the leash when she gets into something naughty...which is all the time :( I feel bad for her, but I'll be glad when she doesn't barf all over.

50 Things

For Valentines day I told my husband that I wanted a list of 25 things he wanted to experience with me during our marriage. I made a list of 25 things too. My list was done before Valentine's day. Jordan gave me his list yesterday.

My list:

1. Take a ride in a hot air balloon
2. Get married in Vegas
3. Have his children
   
4. Take 365 photos together in 365 days
5. Ride an elephant
6. Be debt free
7. Take a photo in every photo booth we visit
8. Rent a convertible for a day-road trip somewhere fun
9. Stay in bed all weekend leaving only to potty and get foods
10. Go skydiving
11. Ice skating in Central Park
12. Scuba dive
13. Go horseback riding on the beach
14. Live to see our grandkids
15. Join a ______ of the month club...wine, chocolate, etc.
    
16. Take dance lessons
17. Swim with dolphins
18. Take a tropical island get-away
19. See a Broadway show on Broadway
20. Have a super fancy date night-include limo
21. Always chase our dream
22. Get matching tattoos
23. Take a horse-drawn carriage ride
24. Go whale watching
25. Never fall out of love

Here is Jordan's list:

1. Take a world cruise
2. Hike the Grand Canyon
   
3. Visit each continent-minus Antarctica
4. Coast to coast road trip
5. Learn to ballroom and Salsa dance
6. Go skydiving
7. Retire in comfort
8. Try Tantric
9. Pay off house/debts
10. Go snowboarding
11. Visit Wisconsin Dells
12. Raise children into responsible, successful adults
13. Space vacation
14. Fly in fighter jet...as passenger
15. Host family dinner for every holiday
16. Spoil grandkids
17. Have a house in the county with a pond
18. White water rafting
19. Alaskan cruise
20. Dine a 5 star 5 diamond restaurant
21. Go to renaissance fair and dress in character
22. Own jet skies
23. Take up horseback riding as hobby
24. Go paint-balling
    
25. Attend Lollapalooza

My New Blog

So I deleted my old blog because it wasn't really going in the direction I wanted it to be going in. This blog will be about me, my husband and puppies, and maybe some crafts and recipes.

A little about myself:
I am 26, married (2 years in May) and my husband and I just bought our 1st home. I have a 10 year old yellow lab named Emma and we just got a Boston Terrier puppy named Fiona. I am currently a housewife...though started looking for a job out of sheer boredom.

I like to crochet, scrapbook and make cards, and cook. I am trying to loose a little weight so that I can go to Wisconsin Dells this summer and wear a swimsuit without feeling too bad about myself.

Here is a video of Emma sitting on Fiona's head:



I hope you enjoyed that.