Reid, Susie, Abigail, & Jonas

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Hooray for Reid

I am warning you in advance that this is going to be a short post, but 1) I want to try to blog more (a constant goal of mine that always fails) and 2) because this deserves some recognition!

Reid finished his first year of Medical School!!! Hooray!! I am so happy for him. He has really put so much hard work into school, it's about time he got a break. Happy summer babe!!

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

I owe this all to Reid. After Christmas he took a lot of time reading and learning up on gardening and decided that this summer in between school we would have a garden. Unfortunately, at our apartment complex there isn't any land for the tenants to take care of, but Reid found a community garden that is only like 5 minutes away from us. It took a while to find out if we got a plot, but finally at end of April we were assigned a plot! (The community garden is a first come first serve, so all the people who had plots last year could keep them, or if they didn't, new people got a chance at it.) So we got our seeds and tilled the ground. That was not fun, we had to do it by hand with just a shovel and being 30 weeks pregnant makes it really hard. Reid tilled it a second time and a nice lady that has a plot at the garden let Reid borrow her hand tiller. That went a lot quicker and that lady also gave us like 6 strawberry plants from her garden. (Everyone we have met at the garden is super nice!) Along with strawberries, we planted beans, peas, watermelon, cantaloupe, 2 different types of cucumbers and squash. We also started carrots and cherry tomatoes inside our house, the tomatoes are still growing, but after we transplanted the carrots outside, they died :(
Tomorrow we are going to one of the local farmers market and getting a tomato plant (something other than cherry) and on Friday we are doing some major weeding and mulching of the garden. It has been really fun being able to spend time together as a family to be outside and (try) grow our own food -even though it will be a while before we actually get to eat it :) I love Reid's enthusiasm and determination. Without it, we wouldn't be doing this. Thanks hun!

The little sprouts are the cherry tomatoes. The toilet paper rolls held the carrots that died

Reid and Abigail at the garden

The strawberries

Towards the top is the beans and the ones towards the bottom are some of the peas

Cucumbers are on the left (very small) and squash is on the right

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Things of Late

So, it's about time to post again.

Things have been really good here in Iowa. Reid is loving school, which makes me happy. I am glad he is enjoying what he wants to do. Most of the school year has been spent by me being tired and sick. No pregnancy is official without a picture of the baby no matter how big my tummy gets! So to fulfill that need (and post)....

17 weeks

18 weeks

19 weeks

22 weeks

It's real. Hope you enjoyed!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

There is a thief among us

So the other weekend, I was in Iowa City with my sister Jayne, and we went shopping with Abigail. (I gave Reid the day off... I mean let him study all day). We were in Rue21 etc. and I didn't bring the stroller with me so both of us were running around the store chasing after Abigail. I showed her all the wallets towards the front of the store and that kept her interest... for like 30 seconds. The next thing I know, she has grabbed like 5 wallets and books it into the mall. The alarm sounds and I am running after her! The look on the sales person when we came back into the store was utter relief that it was only a little kid and not something she really had to deal with. Lucky for me, I have to watch out every time now that I go in the stores. I hope this doesn't turn into a habit!