Garden Pictures

Mom asked for some pictures of the itty bitty bell peppers so I thought I'd update all the plants. I didnt get a full garden shot. I never think about it! You can also see my awfully dry oklahoma soil in most of the pictures! It just rained this morning and it was already dry and cracked by the afternoon.

My one lonely corn stalk is as tall as me. It has two ears growing on it!!! I'm thinking about taking the ears to the grow shop along with this picture when they are bigger. (If they get bigger!) (The lady at the grow shop told me it wasnt possible for one stalk of corn to grow alone)


The itty bitty bell pepper. This one is a couple of days old.

The biggest roma tomato. It has been big and green for a while now.

My first red cayenne pepper!! Almost ready to pick!

Small bell pepper

These are actually my biggest bell peppers and they are medium-sized. I just cant get a picture that shows how big they are.

I have bad news....

I tweet.

Well, technically, Allison at GSO Weddings tweets. Yes, I signed GSO (Glass Slipper Occasions) up for twitter and began tweeting on Friday. As much sadness as that has brought my family so far, its been great for business!! Ok so no actual clients have signed a contract yet but within 24 hours of signing up I got photos from a photographer who had been putting me off for months!!! (Thats HUGE!) The more photos I get from photographers the better my online portfolio looks and the more (potentially) clients I can get.

I know what you're thinking, though, who on earth would care that I had chicken for dinner last night? Well right now, 11 people. (which means I'm wildly unpopular in twitterland- the people I actually know on twitter (not celebrities or news outlets) have between 33 and 395 followers.) Thats what they're called- followers. You should join just to say you have followers! And actually you don't tweet about chicken. UNLESS the chicken reminded you of the fantastic chicken a client had on the menu at her wedding last month and you're going to post a link to the pictures. THATS twitter! It's just another social network but this one works great for business! I can't figure out why a person would tweet about regular life all the time. But I won't dwell on that. I need the non-business people to have twitter accounts so they will follow me and then click on the link to my website and book a wedding!

Peyton in the pool

Here are a few videos of Peyton in the pool. I accidentally recorded them on 'compress' mode so I dont know how they'll turn out. I'll take better video next time!

The first video is just of him swimming. He does a really good job already!

The next one is him blowing bubbles like his daddy.

The third one is him jumping off the ladder. I thought he was getting out of the pool the first time I saw him do it so I told him to get down. I don't know what he's yelling before he jumps, I think maybe 'down' or 'now' since I told him to 'get down now'. I don't know!

June Update

Well its time for another update. Can you believe this time next month Peyton will be TWO?? It's hard to believe! On the other hand he seems so grown up!


It's always hard to remember what we've been up to over the last month! I had a marathon of weddings this month so I've been pretty busy with work. Last weekend was the first weekend I had off in a month so I really enjoyed some downtime. The garden is doing well. Brandon and Joe have eaten a few jalapenos already and everything else is getting ready to ripen. It's going to be hard to keep up with watering this summer. Last week was in the 100's ever day. The poor garden is pretty wilty!


Speaking of heat, we decided to get a pool that the whole family could enjoy. We spent the several days in it last week and it was wonderful! Of course we all got our innagural sunburns, too! Some worse than others! If there was ever any doubt, I can promise that you can, in fact, burn skin that is under the water!


Now that Brandon is off in the afternoons and it's too hot to cool off the garage, he'll probably join us in the pool. It's also too hot to golf! One day he and his friend Ryan decided to golf in the afternoon and then cool off in the pool. The one thing they neglected to factor in was that the pool is more like bathwater temperature right now. It wasn't the refreshing swim they had planned!


Peyton and I spent a couple of days with our neighbor friends last week. I watched their twins while their regular babysitter was home with her sick child. I took a picture of them on the couch. They were so cute playing together!! The girls are 3 months older than Peyton.

Well I think we sound positively boring this month! But thats okay with me! Its too hot to do much right now and things will pick up soon!!

See you next month with Peyton's birthday recap!!

This is what summer is all about!

Here are the pictures from our very fun day in the pool! I don't know how hot it got today but it was HOT! I did catch the 7 day forecast, though, and it read: Tu - 100, We - 100, Th - 100, Fr - 100, Sa - 98, Su - 98, Mo - 98. So I"m thinking we'll be back in the pool all week! Poor Brandon had to work today. I think he called for 'updates' on the pool three times!

Soo happy!!

I'm afraid Peyton is going to think Daddy is more fun than Mom in the pool...

It is a little funny that I got NO pictures of Peyton in his life jacket! He spent 1/2 the day in it! When its just the two of us he wears the life jacket and sits in his ring! And I wonder why Daddy is more fun...! Oh well! There are more eyes and hands around when Daddy is in the pool.

This is how the pool fits in the yard. We put two stepping stones on the edge of the garden so that you can go ahead and step in the garden without hurting anything.

It kind of is nice having the garden right there, though. At dinner we had an onion on the grill and Brandon wanted to have a couple of jalapenos with it. So we just plucked a couple of jalapenos out of the garden and threw them on the grill. Doesnt get better than that!

Two things I've learned

I learned two things yesterday. First, you know those personality tests that tell you that you are a lion or a bear or a whatever? Well Brandon and I must be lizards. Second, Brandon isn't allowed to go with me to make purchases of any kind.

I'll explain... I discovered that we are lizards because, like lizards, we will continue to fill our living spaces until they burst at the seams. We've seen this in many instances. We had to buy the TV that we bought in order to fill the hole in the TV cabinet completely. There was to be no space on any side of the TV. We regularly would purchase things that didn't fit in our vehicle. It would ALMOST fit. Sometimes it was too big by even 1/4 of an inch.

That leads me to why Brandon isn't allowed to go with me to make purchases. He was already banned from going with me to purchase electronics. We can shop together but when we make our final decision, I go alone and get a store associate to help me take the thing to the car. Like the TV, we went to Walmart to buy a small, $50 pool yesterday. It was a great deal, it had a filter like I wanted and it was small enough to fit in the backyard with no problem. We have the garden, after all, so space is an issue.

Oh my.... We now have a 15 foot wide, 4 foot deep pool wedged into our backyard. Its going to be fantastic on the 100 degree days (which we've already had one or two)! But the widest place in the backyard is 16 feet.... Seriously.

Somehow the thing expanded another foot once it was actually up correctly. I'll have to add another picture today to show you how it actually fits in there.

Kristine and Joe and Kathy came to help us put it up. They were funny when they arrived- Kristine said that when they drove up she commented that she was surprised we needed help; she thought we were getting a pretty small pool. Kathy said 'she must have taken Brandon with her'!

(By the way, it sounds like I"m really complaning about the pool. I'm not. I'm just still in shock!) We can afford it- this one was actually (mathematically) a better deal than anything in the store and this way our entire family can enjoy it. The other one was really more for me and Peyton. I just wasn't prepared for a pool of this size! Actually, neither was Brandon. For two intelligent people, our spatial recognition seems to be a little off! For the record, though, I did measure the yard. But that was when we were going to buy an 8ft pool. I only measured the part of the yard that we were going to put THAT in!

Well, I'm off to enjoy! Come visit sometime!

The first jalapeno of the season

This is our very first pick from the garden! It's a little small but I wanted to pick the first peppers a little early to keep the plant going strong. It's ready to eat so off it came! I think I'll let the next batch mature a little more. I dont know- I have so many jalapenos I can probably get every stage of heat from them! Not that I even eat them...

The cayenne are getting there. They're pretty long but still green. I want those to be red when I pick them.

Oh! And the bell peppers either have mind-reading powers or an internet connection... The very day I wrote about their lack of growth on here I went out to water in the evening and they had all begun to bud! Once those things get started they're off! Already I have one that's pretty big. They are about the cutest thing when they are really small, though! All of them are, actually! Teeny tiny little versions of themselves!