The King and The Queen

I helped out with a Primary Activity Days Daddy Daughter Activity last night. They had some crowns left over and they sent them home with me to give to the kids. I don't think I could have come home with anything more exciting. They wanted me to put them on right away and they ran around the rest of the evening playing with them. Zach kept saying he and Hailey were queens, but we quickly explained to him that girls were queens and boys were kings. He seemed to be fine with it and quickly changed to telling us they were the king and the queen. Anyone who's met our children know that this is probably more of a truth than just a make-believe thing. I think the two of them do rule our little home "castle."







Too cute.

There was a Melon who had a name ...

And BINGO was his name-o.

Our little garden has really done well this year. Last year, we lost a few plants (probably because we thought we were watering better than we were), so thinking we would lose about as many, we bought the same amount. Of course we changed our watering habits (ok, we just adjusted the sprinkler) and we haven't lost any. So our little garden is more than overflowing with plants. I think it looks more like a weed patch, but I promise they are all plants.



So far we've harvested quite a few items from the garden. We have 3 tomato plants and 4 cucumber plants (we lost 3 of our 4 of these last year, but all 4 are going strong this year). While our tomatoes have been fairly normals size so far, our cucumbers have been huge!



In addition to the cucumber and tomato plants, we planted a watermelon and cantaloupe plant too. Nana and Papa gave us 2 huge pumpkin plants last year that the kids just loved. Unfortunately, we didn't get out early enough to get any pumpkins this year, so Zach decided he wanted to try a watermelon plant - I think he was thinking he wanted something BIG. The other day when we were out weeding the garden and searching around for cucumbers, we saw a strangely shaped cucumber. After looking at it for a few seconds, we realized that it was the beginning of our first watermelon!



When we told Zach to come over and see, he was so thrilled, he starting jumping up and down. We told him we should give it a name while we were watching it grow. When we asked Zach what he wanted to call his little watermelon, he enthusiastically said, let's call it BINGO! So we have a garden blooming so much that it's starting to grow out of the garden and our first little watermelon named BINGO.