In the garden.....

We spent much of this weekend outside. The weather was just too good to pass up. After taking my dad to a wonderful breakfast for his birthday on Saturday, we made a stop by Lowe's to purchase some "keep Tilly in the yard at all times" materials and some compost for our garden. Here are the kiddos sitting on top of the pavers to make sure they don't fall off - surely that was a good shoulder, back and arm workout pushing two kids and a pile of concrete pavers around....

 

Here is Stephen ready to turn some dirt and add some compost.....Yay for dirt and worms!

We all got in with our shovels....and SURPRISE!

Last fall, Ms. French (aka, Great-Grandma and Mamaw Jo) gave us some sweet potato tops she had placed into a jar with water....fast forward a few months - and remember this garden has been completely untouched all those winter months - and we have a surprise crop of sweet potatoes!!! In total, we dug out maybe 20 or so sweet potatoes - about half of them are actually big enough to eat. Crazy!! The kids thought it was great. Heck, I thought it was great!!
The kids have also taken up daytime residency in a FABULOUS tree in the backyard. We saved it when we picked out this lot 5 years ago and I had visions of Ansley (and future siblings) sitting exactly like Ansley is now. Here she is showing up a sweet potato from her garden.

The planting will come next!!!