1 week

Stella has been such a good baby, sleeps thru the night so i wake her to eat!! loves her swing and car seat :-) her best friend Lucy came to visit!! She met a bunch of our family and was loved on so much... we love miss Stella

Stella Kristin

Stella Kristin Powell
8lbs - 20.25inches
6/17/10

~summer activities~

We've been trying to keep our garden alive by double watering it in this heat wave we've had! sometimes the tomato leaves look pretty sad, but they are producing tons of tomatoes (last time I counted it was at 52 tomatoes a few weeks ago - from 9 plants) We didn't get one tomato last year so we are pretty happy with the turn out this year. Our sugar snap peas did alright, the kids LOVE picking them and can hardly stand to wait for them to be washed :-)
We have also planted, corn, jalapenos, bell peppers, carrots, and cucumbers!

Our cucumbers have come in various shapes and sizes, we have about 12 still growing and TONS of blossoms... Above is obviously a more normal shape and size for a cucumber, below is another story - these look like they are on steroids or something, we picked them because they just kept getting worse...

The kids have had a lot of fun playing outside with the water toys, I found Ashlyn & Weston a water hopscotch (she's obsessed) and also a slip n slide

Blake had a scout camp out for 3 days and my goal was not to go into labor (which obviously I didn't have my baby)... he had no cell service and it worried me just a little! My mom stayed with me just in case anything crazy happened - we shopped a little, saw a movie and took the kids to the feed the ducks while Blake was gone. Hopefully my next update will be about the new arrival of our little one!

After Blake got home we went to dinner with my family and after getting home decided to make a fire in our backyard and roast some s'mores, the kids loved it - I personally was worried about Weston getting too close to the fire of course! He was jumping from one couch to the other earlier Saturday and busted his lip open, lets just say we had a long night of him being uncomfortable - it's so puffy and swollen