Our First Gardenteoi

We will soon be married 20 years.  I know, crazy, right?  But for the first time in our marriage, we have a garden!!!  We find this is a really big thing in North Carolina.  You have to have a garden if you have any sort of room in your backyard.  We have plenty of room, that is not the problem.  So I had this great idea from my friend, Brandie, who has a beautiful garden!!  Several weeks ago, Scott and I headed to Lowe's.  We had a few thoughts and then we went inside to be sure there wasn't anything different.  We did stumble upon another couple doing exactly the same thing.  However, they were arguing.  I shouldn't say arguing.  He was rolling his eyes and she was "letting him know" how she wanted it done!  LOL!  I kind of stood back and watched and thought to myself, "Wow, that is how I used to look!  Exactly how I would have handled this!"  I was so grateful that God has not left either of us where we were.  Isn't that what the sanctification process is in our walk with the Lord?  I hope we always continue to grow and change and look more Christ-like.  I hope we always can stop and prefer one another or sometimes be willing to lay down our selfishness to make peace.  I just stopped for a moment in the lumber aisle and was simply grateful.  And then I wanted to stop this lady that I didn't even know and tell her, "LET IT GO!  If it looks just a little different than your picture, God is still on the throne!  Pick your battles and pick the RIGHT ones!"  

Anyway, let me assure you I get it wrong more than right.  But back to my garden story.  We enlisted the kids to help.  As you can see, Jack immediately took his shoes off and wanted to play in the dirt.  His words were, "I love how dirt feels on my feet."  And I say, "YUCK!"   Spencer helped me plant some cherry tomatoes upside down in our recycled plant buckets.  This idea was given to me by my Uncle Gary.  And Erica stood behind the camera in her fancy clothes so she didn't have to get very dirty.  She was the "brightest" one!!!  LOL!   I just love Jack's expression as he carried the bag of soil.  He was so proud of himself!!!  

I will post more pictures as the garden grows.  We already have several blooms and several squash on the plant already!  It has been very cool for the kids to participate and see how a garden grows and learn to care for it.  We still have not put a small fencing of some sort around it.  I just know the deer are going to find this if I don't hurry.  I think we will tackle this over the weekend......