First Week of School Complete!! Garden Update!

The kids have completed their first week of school and they both loved it! They made art projects on their first day.

They didn't like it to much that they didn't have school on Wednesday, but they were more then happy to go on Thursday morning!! They rode the bus for the first time!

They are the first ones on in the morning and are picked up at 7. They are on the bus for 50 minutes, school starts at 7:50. Tuesday they will be riding the bus home for the first time and I am expecting them home by 4!

When I picked them up Thursday afternoon, they weren't to happy to leave school, they wanted to stay.  They did have fun showing me they papers and telling me about the day! Jacqueline went swimming for PE and she will do it again next week! She said she kicked in the water and it was fun! They both told me that they had pizza for lunch and it was yummy!

Jacqueline started this on the first day of school and finished it the second day! It's a raccoon!(her cutting has surely improved!!)

Nathaniel first told me that this is a horse and tractors and then when he showed Kevin he said that it was a truck a truck a tractor!

Love some of Nathaniel's answers on this!!

Nathaniel's paint job!

Nathaniel's art project, its a magnet!!!

My fridge full of kids school work!!! I need more magnets for any future work!!!

This morning I told Jacqueline that she has a 4 day weekend and she started to cry, I remember looking forward to 3 day weekends when we were in school!!

My garden is going so well! My peas are finished, pulled them out tonight. Kinda bummed about that.  My green beans are still going good! The pole beans have just started the last week being ready! Zucchini is still going strong, several big ones lately and will be picking more tomorrow! Corn has some beautiful ears coming in and should be ready in a few weeks! I have been getting carrots every few picks and they sure smell good!! 

The coolest looking heirloom carrot!!

During the last storm the hail knocked off the only jalapeno pepper that was growing... have a few flowers though so I should have more soon! Bell peppers are doing good, have several nice looking peppers that should be ready in a week or so. The potatoes are starting to die off, 2 plants were ready so I did pick them.

Left are russets and the right are golds

The pumpkin plant is doing so well!! There are 2 pumpkins on it right now and a possible another 5 starting to form. I bedded it down along with the watermelon, honeydew and the squash plants with straw for the fruits to rest on. 

This was the pumpkin plant yesterday, its bigger then this now!! This is the biggest one of the 2.

Honeydew is about the size of a softball right now and getting bigger. There are also about another 4 just starting to grow!

The watermelon!! There is only one that I have seen so far.  It also is getting bigger by the day!!

It has been a great day today, hope you all have a wonderful night!!