It's May!

In Louisville, May translates to "Derby" and although we certainly didn't go (tickets are WAY expensive and I'm not about to attempt the infield) we did go to Tom's house to watch it with some friends. Drew sported his horse-hat for all of 5 seconds but seemed genuinely interested in watching the horses race. He's been very into animals lately and I think he'll love going to the zoo this summer and seeing them live and up close.

Aunt Laura stopped by the other day. She was able to actually get Andrew to eat dinner which is a miracle these days. He's been on a bit of a hunger strike and doesn't seem to understand that man cannot live on bananas alone. Laura, can you just come back every evening...please?

And speaking of food, we now have a small scale farm in our backyard. Nate has worked around the clock to get the beds tilled and we've weeded and planted till the sun's gone down, literally! This year we've got strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, cantaloupe, grapes (not sure how those will do), zucchini, squash, 6 types of tomatoes, a variety of peppers, green beans, carrots, arugula, kale, and plenty of herbs...whew! That sounds like quite a lot but our goal is to try to live out of the garden as much as possible this summer and fall.

 I also have to commend Nate for his hard work in our yard besides just the vegetables...this was the side of our yard exactly a year ago....

...And here it is this year...much better! Nate is always good at seeing beyond the muddy, empty, unfinished business of our house and yard (unlike me!) and has worked so hard to make everything look nice. He even built us a rain barrel (you can see it there on the right) so we can water our plants freely.

 And of course, during all this outside activity, Drew has been enthralled watching Nate work. He tries to "prune" every tree, shrub or plant he can get his hands on and this includes the ones at the Garden Center...I have to watch him like a hawk to make sure we don't have make extra purchases that have lost a significant amount of their foliage!