So many visitors, so little time

It has been a very busy last couple of weeks.  Since I last posted we have had 5 rounds of visitors.  So many fun events happened over these weeks.  We went to a Kenny Chesney/Zac Brown Band concert, landscaped our backyard flower garden with my mom, modeled for eyeglasses to help out a photographer friend, picked up a few more shifts at work, and kayaked on the C&O Canal and the Potomac River to celebrate our 8 years of marriage.  Whew!  Our vegetable garden is growing.  The lettuce tastes awful, but the tomatoes are oh so yummy!  I.  rides a tricycle now on her own and M.  is picking up speed on her bike with training wheels.  Oh, we have potty trained our little I. too!  I decided that I was over cloth diapers and eco-friendly pull-ups.  Both girls are now completely only wearing underwear including naps and nighttime.  We'll see how it goes, but so far, so good.  So we are continuing to enjoy the summer and the beautiful days here in Virginia.  We signed up for the Triathlon/Duathlon for Labor Day Weekend, so we are continuing to train for that as well.  Well, off to fold laundry and get pool bags packed for our evening trip to the neighborhood outdoor pool :)

Our Contatiner Garden

I have killed nearly every plant that I have owned.  So who knows why a container garden seemed feasible.  Her are the pics now because they are all still living.  I have tried to incorporate a ritual of watering them.  So far so good.  We bought our flowers Easter weekend and I planted the veggies this past week.  I am starting small this year in hopes that I will learn enough to go bigger next year.  We have a pot or two of lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, hot peppers, broccoli and another vegetable I have already forgotten-see what I mean.  I really hope the flowers make it.  They are so beautiful right now!!

So far, so good!

Both Nathan and I are trying to get back into working out regularly while balancing the rest of life.  Fortunately, life has been settling and we feel like we have even gotten sleep. Which always helps.  The patio furniture is out-used furniture that we got from friends that was going to go to "Freecycle"-love it!  We have pansies from the fall in full bloom and are working on putting together a very simple container garden such as tomatoes-obsessed with fresh tomatoes-and any other simple vegetable, maybe peppers and cucumbers?  The back of our house where the patio and deck are face the south which is great for gardens.  We see a duathlon and maybe a 1/2 marathon in our future.  We'll see how the spring treats us.  So far, so good!