Wow we actually got a watermelon!!

Every season we plant watermelons they take a really long time to grow and the last couple years we always pick them way to early. We have read and read about when to pick the watermelons and every time we do they are always white inside. So this year when we picked the first watermelon we were apprehensive because we did not want to waste the watermelon and have it not be ripe. We toke a chance and it paid off!! We were so excited to see red inside the melon. It smelled so good and tasted even better then we imagined it would. I love watermelon and am so excited to have so many in our garden (about 25 growing right now) I just hope our luck continues and we will get another good one. If anyone has grown melons you know that it pretty much takes over your whole garden that is why we have so many. It is so rewarding to be able to grow something and eat it and enjoy it especially for the kids.

First Day of School

Katelyn ready to go.

Of course Ashlyn had to be in the picture she thought she was going somewhere.

Katelyn in her new classroom.

Getting off the bus. She loves to ride the bus with all her friends.

Well another school year is upon us and Katelyn could not be more excited. Katelyn entered the first grade on July 28, 2008. Why is it that we always seem to emotional on days like? I guess it is the fact that we are sending our kids into the real world and not our sheltered little world we have created for them. Also that another year has gone by way to fast and we forget how fast time flys and we just want them to stay young forever. However aside from mom's anxieties Katelyn did great and made many new friends. The first day of school she noticed a new girl who has never gone to Desert Mtn before was playing by herself and Katelyn took it upon her self to go and introduce herself and be her friend. I was so proud of her to initiate something like that. Katelyn is always thinking of others. Well we couldn't happier with Katelyn and the choices she makes when she is away from mom and dad. What an adventure we are embarking upon as parents of a first grader, we are excited to see where this takes us.