The Garden

Our big summer project was our garden. A wonderful man who lives across the street from us offered his property for anyone who wanted it for garden space. Of course i had to take advantage of it. Here's how it started out

A few starts, empty cages and string showing where seeds lay hidden in the ground. 

We worked hard picking out rocks, pulling weeds, tilling in compost and watering the plot. 

All summer we worked and boy our fruits were plentiful!

Here's when our corn came up! Too bad we only got to eat a few. a Storm blew them over. 

Here everything is, just a bit bigger!

We made stuffed zuchinni. yum!

Zucchini, kohlrabi, cucumber and tomatoes. 

Much bigger, look at those tomatoes!

My swisschard.

Huge harvest! tomatoes, beans, peppers, and cucumbers soon to be made into pickles!

These tomatoes all got canned into spaghetti sauce!

Dinner with corn and chard from the garden.

First corn and carrots. 

Hils Wedding

Happy Wedding Hilary and Sean!

 They are sooo happy!

Trudy toddled around.

Goofy guy. 

At our wedding Joe and i never got a picture with Grandpa Hogge, who sealed us. We decided to get one today.  

Here's the whole family, with Spence photo shopped in.

We are in love. 

Giants Game

Joe and i went to California a few days early before my sister in laws wedding for a Giants baseball game. We had such a great time! Walking through the city on my pregnant tired hips was slow but i really enjoyed taking the train under the bay.

Our seats were good. I really wanted to see a Splash Hit. No luck this time, i'll just have to hope for the next Giants game we go to.

It was a pretty hot day, and i got a little sunburned. I was glad we had a hat!

Pappa, Bradford, and Joe.

The Giants didn't win, but we had a great day.

Alaska Cruise part 7 Ship and other random pictures

We bought matching watches at the dollar store. You there are no clocks anywhere on the ship, cell phones don't work, and if you are in port and the ship leaves you are out of luck. We thought it was a good investment.

 More cool towel animals

We did a survey with the head chef and he sent this to our room as a thank you, two swans made our of pancake batter and chocolate mousse, and half a chocolate dipped strawberry.

This was our last day on the ship, we got a little sunburned even though it was cold.

Breakfast in our favorite outdoor restaurant on the ship.

Joe kicking back while we sailed.

Me enjoying the view after enjoying a cherry filled crepe. 

Another picture of be being silly with a bear.

Joe and a bear, this was in the Mount Roberts visitor center after we watched the film on Alaskan native culture.

Another crazy steep staircase.

Are you sick of me and bears yet?

Sarah Palin? 

I thought this was a cool statue, it was in Skagway.

The grand rag in the main theatre. Pretty cool peacock.

Me enjoying another crepe on another beautiful evening on ship.

Alaska Cruise Part 6 Last Stop Victoria

By the end of the cruise, we were tired. Stopping in Victoria ended up being fun though. We wanted to see Butchart Gardens, they are pretty famous and supposedly amazing. What we didn't know is you go from your ship to the town, then the gardens are 45 minutes away. No thanks. We walked around downtown, shopped, and enjoyed the harbor. Here's some proof.






Cool street preformer. we also saw a violin playing Darth Vader, and a man juggeling fire.

Neat old hotel.

House of Parliment in think. 

Pretty harbor.

Street artist drew this screwball on the sidewalk. looks like joe is standing on top of it huh? 

way cool!

this was supposedly the smallest alley in Canada. 

Way cooler at night! 

Canadian Royal Mountee Bear!

Giant lemon? heck yes!