-I seem to have entered summer vacation mode. It's crazy that even though I don't work, Henry isn't in school, and husband doesn't get a summer vacation from work, (too bad, that would be great!!), that we've still shifted gears from a few weeks ago. I just want to play outside, work the garden, and eat ice cream. As you can imagine this isn't great for my waistline or blogging. I keep trying to motivate myself to blog more, there are several posts I want to get written, I just can't seem to ever get any of them done. I think we may take a little mini break from posting so regularly just for the summer. ;)
-Apparently I'm also taking a break from taking pictures with my camera. I think it's been a few weeks since I've even picked it up and turned it on. The memory card is full and I need to get a new one. I know that you can delete all the pictures and fill the card back up again, but since Henry's birth I just can't bring myself to delete any pictures off memory cards. I have a bag that has probably 10 filled memory cards in it now. The pictures are all on the computer and most of them are backed up, I just can't delete the pictures. Clearly I'm crazy.

-We did our first two experiments with canning food this past weekend. We did 3 pints of spicy carrots, (they're just pickled carrots with jalapenos and red pepper flakes-our local tacqueria makes them and they're GOOD, hopefully ours turn out as well!), and 6 pints of chow chow. I need to do a post about canning, but I will say that it was a lot easier and not as time consuming as I thought it would be! We probably spent more time watching Parks and Rec and waiting for the water to boil than the active part of canning took! In case you were wondering, it takes a looooonnngg time for 21.5 quarts of water to boil on a 17 year old stove.
watching Curious George from his new chair
-Henry got a new red rocking chair from his CeCe and he loves it! He also loves standing in the chair, but that is definitely not my favorite.
This child is such a dare devil! He certainly doesn't get that from his mama who is a huge chicken and terrified of heights. Crazy kid! He is seriously going to give me a heart attack between that and trick riding on his rocking horse. He has no fear!

-Our little garden is growing so much! I'm so excited about it! All except one bed, which is not looking so hot. We've been trying some new things out this week in an attempt to perk it up a little bit. I'll let y'all know what we did and if they worked when we see some results. It's the bed with bell peppers and heirloom tomatoes. If they don't improve by next weekend, we're probably going to end up transplanting anything salvageable out of the bed, running a soil sample to make sure that there's nothing off, and replanting the bed with more heat hardy plants. I've been doing lots of garden research and I've read lots of reports of people having trouble with heirloom tomatoes growing, so they may not have been the best for us to start with? We'll just have to see!
Roma tomatoes, heirloom tomato, jalapenos, squash blossoms, radishes
On the other end of the spectrum, with summer finally hitting us, (we had an unusually cool, long spring in Texas!), most of our other plants have taken off! The okra shot up about a foot in a week once we got over 95! I've lost count of how many blossoms there are on the cucumbers, (hooray, I'm ready to make some pickles!!), our Roma tomatoes look great, and our hot peppers are taking off! I love going out to look at them every day, (ok more like 3 times a day, ha!). I swear the cayenne peppers grow between half an inch and an inch every day! One pepper is almost as big as my hand:
I love it!
-I got some pretties in the mail from Crystal Faye yesterday and am so excited! These were part of my birthday present from husband, and I love everything! Pretty sure these three will get a lot of use this summer!
-Last week it seemed like Henry just woke up looking bigger/older one day. I sent husband a message saying such with this picture:
and he countered with this picture:
from the weekend we moved in to our house, about 8 months ago. I cannot get over how fast Henry's growing and changing! But he is at
such a fun age right now! He keeps us laughing all the time!
-This week Henry's been very into stacking things. He's very in to patterns, lining things up, fitting things together, and stacking things. I was working on lunch the other day, and he went to the playroom and got a tupperware container, (that he stole from a cabinet a few days before), put some blocks inside, and took them to play in the living room. He takes the blocks out, stacks them up, puts them back in the container. Turns the container upside down and stacks blocks on top of it. Then picks them all back up and puts them back in the container. I watched him do it for several minutes. Then yesterday I found this:
haha! Like I said, he definitely keeps us entertained! Please excuse the messy floor. I promise it's swept every day, we're just messy apparently. ;)
A couple deals going on right now, tiny prints has thank you cards on sale 50% off
today only! We got the thank you cards for Henry's birthday, (you can
see them in this post), from tiny prints and just loved them! Great deal!!
The Britax Free Ride Event
that I wrote about here, is about half over! You only have through the end of the month to take advantage of getting a free car seat, bassinet, or second seat when you buy a Britax BReady stroller. This is an amazing deal that Britax usually only does once a year, so if you're in the market for a stroller, don't miss out on it!
So that's what we're up to this week! I'm really hoping to start blogging more again next week. It's been nice to take a little break, but I'm starting to miss it!! It's weird because when I take breaks from blogging I always feel like it's hard to get back in to it, but once I start typing I suddenly have so much to say and can think of all kinds of post ideas!
Happy Thursday! Only one more day to the weekend!
Jennifer