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Garden Update: Greenery

Kristi — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:01:29 +0000

Our garden is growing! I love to see how it has progressed each day. My little brothers are in this picture. They have been very helpful with the weeding and watering. I have really enjoyed gardening so far. It’s nice to see green out there. The tomatoes, cucumbers, green onions, carrots and morning glories are all growing well. We didn’t have room for the corn and the chives and sunflowers didn’t sprout, unfortunately. We’ve been getting a lot of rain lately too, which is a huge help.

My mom took this picture, you can see more of her shots here.

Garden Update: Sprouting!

Kristi — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:00:57 +0000

I went away for a few days last week, and when I returned my brothers showed me that the green beans had started growing. I was so excited when I saw them. We also put some tomato plants in our garden recently. Hopefully they will grow right and we’ll have a fruitful crop of tomatoes.

This picture I took today of the bean plants. The carrots and onions I planted have sprouted as well but they are too small for me to take a picture of them. There are some brave little weeds poking up too. It din’t take long for them to show up on their own.

I look forward to seeing some produce from our garden. One of my favorite things about gardening is seeing all the stages of a plant’s life. Isn’t it wonderful how one little seed can grow into a big tomato plant, producing multiple tomatoes that are full of even more seeds? This all points to the Creator of the earth that commanded living things to be fruitful and multiply. God is so amazing!

Garden Update: Construction

Kristi — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:00:06 +0000

A couple of weeks ago we decided to do a raised bed garden. With raised beds, we can use better soil. Our soil from the ground is just too sandy and rocky for a vegetable garden. Dad helped us make boxes for the raised beds and we filled them with soil. Now we are working on getting the fence up around the plot.

I tried starting my tomato seeds indoors a couple of months ago. The first batch sprouted and then died not long after. The second batch hardly sprouted at all. I have found that I don’t have much of a green thumb. I have a new respect for people that can actually grow something from a seed. Oh well, I hope that the rest of the things I plant will turn out all right.

Garden Planning

Kristi — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:19:29 +0000

My brother Luke and I have been planning a garden since fall of last year. I just picked out the seeds this week and I have been reading books about gardening from the library. I am getting really excited about starting the garden. I am planning on starting some of the seeds indoors. Pretty soon it will be time to start the tomatoes. Besides tomatoes, I’m going to try growing green beans, carrots, green onions, corn (I’m not so sure that will work out), chives, marigolds, morning glories, and sunflowers.

It is fun learning about gardening, and the more I learn, the more excited I get about it. I’ll try to keep you updated on the progress of my garden. I am so looking forward to spring!

Camping August 2008

Kristi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:58:07 +0000

Here are some pictures from our camping trip last week.

Some sunset pictures on Lake Charlevoix. We camped at Young State Park on Lake Charlevoix. It was a very nice lake and we got a lot of swimming in.

A day-time picture of the lake

A couple more pictures . . .

Josiah . . . the happy camper

The fire ring. The campfires were fun. We had some good s’mores.

- sorry about the dates on the pictures. I had the date stamp setting on on my camera, but I turned it off so it won’t happen again. oops

June ’08 Pictures

Kristi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:08:13 +0000

Here are some of my recent pictures.

The lake

Daisies

The sky on a beautiful day

Mint leaves (they smell really good)

Some kind of berries, I’m not sure what they are

Flowers

Flowers From Dad

Kristi — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:20:53 +0000

My Dad gave me these pretty wildflowers for my birthday. I had fun taking pictures of them with my new camera. Thanks for the flowers dad! I took a lot of pictures, but this was my favorite.

My New Bike

Kristi — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:12:33 +0000

When we went camping last week, my dad got me a new bike. It is really nice and I have a lot of fun riding it. Mom, Jake, Zack, Josiah and I went on a bike ride to the park this morning. That was fun. It is a lot easier to keep up with everyone now that I have a better bike. Here are some pictures:

Me and my bike

Jake, Zack, and Josiah getting a drink after a long hard ride.

Wow! look at how high it goes!

Fun with Cameras

Kristi — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:29:44 +0000

Luke and I were taking some pictures the other day, and Josiah wanted to take some too. He is using Luke’s camera in this picture and he also took some with my camera.

“Say Cheese!”

Another cute picture of Josiah.

Here is a picture I took of Nick outside on a nice day.

Skating Fun

Kristi — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:28:01 +0000

We went to an ice rink at a park yesterday. My little brothers had fun sliding around. Josiah and Zack found some deep snow at the park, and had fun jumping off the snow pile into the snow. It was fun slipping and sliding around on the ice.

My brothers Taylor, Luke, and Josiah.

Josiah in the deep snow.