Mother's Day, Gardening, and Catch Up

Today is a day to remember those women in our lives who have raised, taught and cared for us. Mother's have a special place in our hearts and I have been blessed to have many involved in my life. I take this moment to say Thank You to all those ladies who have been there for me when I needed them most! Love you mom!

Last year I was celebrating Mother's Day as a mother-to-be and it was so exciting knowing that this year I would be able to celebrate it with my husband and baby boy! I was treated to french toast and strawberry topping and bacon for breakfast! All made by my wonderful husband. So here's to my happy little family on Mother's Day!

Gardening Days
We were able to get our garden planted finally and we are hoping that at least something starts to grow! We have corn, cucumber, carrots, squash, peppers, dill, winter onion, cilantro, and basil. We still have to plant lettuce and watermelon, but we are started! The weather has been really nice lately, and we have had warm sunny days to water the lawn and go on walks, but I'm sure not used to the humidity yet! It was 84 degrees today, but it felt like at least 90! Oh, and we were trying to figure out what the vegetables that were already planted in our garden were. After some examination and asking around, we found out that it's a winter onion that's in the green onion family. Except they are huge!

Cache and Jared taking a break

Cache starting his own garden in the only patch of solid grass we have :)

The BIGGEST green onions I have ever seen!

"Not the Mamma!" Just reminded me of that show with the dinosaurs...I had to take it away to spare poor Jared's head

Other Odds and Ends
Cache and I had a chance to sit and watch the wedding of the year (or possibly decade), also what some would call a real-life fairy tale wedding between Kate Middleton and Prince William. I managed to get a picture of Cache enjoying the ceremony

Also Cache has been using just about anything to walk around with including boxes and random toys

We are also officially South Dakotan drivers because we have installed our new license plates. It actually wasn't that expensive to get it done, thank goodness.

He was trying to help by playing with the tires and tools...

I also discovered that Cache has been picking up more habits from me when I turned around while cooking and found Cache cooking his chip-clip.

We have been discovering lots of things and Cache enjoys being chased by daddy. He even speeds up if he sees Jared give him a certain look. I have also been diving into more domestic endeavors with trying to make homemade cinnamon rolls, which I lovingly refer to as Becky's Cinnamon Rolls since she was the one who gave me the recipe. We brought them to church for Mother's Day and gave everyone a roll. They were a hit! Thanks Becky! Also, I have acquired a bread maker for my birthday and I plan on making some bread soon! I would have done this already, but we had bread to eat from the local bakery before I made even more. Also I am currently trying to make yogurt! We get raw milk from our branch president and we had an extra gallon this last week so I decided to give it a shot!  I found instructions online for how to make it in a crock pot so we are going to have to see how it turns out.

Anyway...Happy Mother's Day! And many more to come. :)