Home Sweet Home

    After four months, Jeff and I are finally getting settled into our new house. Wishing and talking about buying a house was all the we talked about for almost three years and it still seems unreal that our dream came true. What is it about a house that's "yours" that makes it a home? I have been moving around and renting the past 5 years and nothing felt like home until now.
    There is something comforting about knowing that we now have a place that our children can call home. A place where their childhood memories will be made with birthdays, holidays and the little moments. A place where Jeff and I can make our own and put our personal touches on. It's a place that's ours and a home that we build together :)

      The first thing Jeff and I (well mainly Jeff) did was put in a garden in the back yard. In our previous apartment we were lucky enough to have a large deck, so we filled it with pots full of veggie plants. Well now that we have a pretty good size yard, we have a 16'x 32' garden! We planted zucchini, summer squash, cucumbers pumpkin, watermelon, cantelope, sweet corn, green beans, tomatoes, green onions, white onions, radishes, sweet and hot peppers, strawberries, and lettuce.

      Finally our garden is in full swing of veggies, so throughout the month I'm going to share some of my favorite recipes that I'm trying out to eat up all of our goodies (although most of it has gone into our freezer since everything is producing so fast!).  This is a great link on how to freeze your garden veggies.. www.pickyourown.org

home grown

Kitchen fresh herbs

Some of our many veggies