Growing season

We've been doing a bit of growing around here. First of all, there's these bright beauties:

These gorgeous gals are the fruit of our own labors. We planted fruit and veggies for a family activity one sunny Monday evening several weeks ago. Since then we've been watering, watching, waiting...and my heart took a picture of these four little people in raptures over the fact that the first strawberry was ready to harvest. It was a pretty big production. We all tasted a bit of the the first fruits of our labors.

And look what else is in season around here:

We grow our own Spraguelings in organic Spragueville soil. They always come up bright, sweet, and ready to eat.

Mmm, I sure do love a generous helping of fresh "stack-of-man". It's one of our specialties.

(Photos: top Jared holding the Sacred Strawberry, under: Jared, Emma, Thomas, Finley, and the Mama with the Berry; Lastly: Finley and Mommy with the Beloved Berry.

Then we have Finley-Grace, in all her two-year-old glory, savoring her sliver of bliss.

And that tiny fella, sitting up all by himself, gazing up with dreamy blue eyes? That's our Abram. 8 months is not enough time to get used to such a brilliant little smile.

Once you tear yourself away from that gorgeous grin you're trapped in the penetrating gaze of our Emma-Kate. 8 years is not enough time to get used to those brilliantly blue eyes. She stops me in my tracks daily.

And featured in our "stack-of-man" are Jared (ten-going-on-thirty-except-for-the-pre-adolescent-humor), along with Thomas (he-who-must-smile-at-all-times. He's four. But he doesn't know it. Tommy is determined to make himself look older than he is by earning premature laugh lines) Aaron, of course, is the rather larger and much more tan fellow (you don't need to know how old he is now. Let's just say mid-thirties-going-on-ten, because a daddy this fun has to have a bit of little boy in him.) Obviously, Abram is the tiny guy with the cheeks that scream "kiss me!" Go on, you know you want to. It'll hardly leave a mark on your screen. .
And, compliments of Thomas on his first attempt at photography, here's one for you. You know I love you, right? Why else would I be posting at midnight!? XOXOXO