12.12.2011

Holiday Cheer . . . Around Here . . .

I LOVE Christmas time! It is such a beautiful season of joy and fun activities! We enjoyed rolling and cutting out some Christmas cookies with Isaac this past weekend!

He got covered in flour!! It was hilarious!

After our cookie-bake-off, we got cleaned up and headed out for a family night out! We ate at P.F. Chang's (YUM), and then went to the Michael W. Smith concert at 2nd Baptist church with full orchestra and choir! It was AWESOME!
Smitty!!
The back up singers were incredible, also! They were a group of 4 brother and sisters from Louisiana and were very talented. They even played some Louisiana-flavored songs that were GREAT! And the brother was so funny when he clarified that the folks behind him in the orchestra were playing violins and his was a "Fiddle"!!! It was funny! He tore it up on that fiddle, too!
After the concert, we checked out Christmas lights in the neighborhood near the church. This yard was FANTASTIC! I couldn't believe how lit up it was and just gorgeous!
Isaac was pretty tired, so he just put himself to bed in his car seat (while reading his "kiddie" Bible)!

12.09.2011

Flora and fauna around home. . .

I love these hot pepper decorative plants! I think you can eat them, but I have heard that they are VERY spicy! We haven't tried them, but I love the way they look in my planter!
We have three barrel planters on our back patio, and they are all in full bloom right now! I just had to snap a couple of photos!

One of our rose bushes along the back fence is exploding with blooms right now! I LOVE this color, it's my favorite! I got a little carried away with taking photos of it, so I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!





This is a type of verbena, and the bees and butterflies LOVE it! I like the vivid purple blooms!
I titled this post Flora and fauna, but I just realized the only fauna out there was my "wild son" Isaac! Ha ha! He's not that wild, but he IS very active!

12.02.2011

How does your garden grow?

We are growing a second garden right now! This is the "Fall Garden". It includes tomatoes (which froze recently) and cabbage, collard greens, turnips, lettuce, radishes (yummy), Brussels sprouts, and my herbs --spearmint, basil, rosemary, and sage. Everything is doing pretty well, although we were sad to lose the tomatoes because there were lots of them on the vine. The collards are delicious just boiled in salty water!
Isaac loves to walk around in the garden, and sometimes does some random harvesting when we turn our backs. He seems to understand where the rows are, thankfully!

He also likes to pull up the markers that are at the top of each row. Fortunately we know what everything is now that it is so big.

Collard greens . . . they have gotten even bigger than this, believe it or not! I think I'll go pick some now for supper!