Happy 4th and 6th of July!

Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July!
Our 1st - 4th of July was spent at Calvary Chapel Softball's Firework Stand off of Harbor and MacArthur in Santa Ana. The fundraiser was a HUGE success!! We are so happy with all the support that we received from our softball family, KWVE and its listeners, and all the random people that came to our booth!! We had such a great time! I can't wait for it again next year! Seriously, on Friday I was having firework-stand-withdrawals. True Story.


So since we missed the actual 4th of July, we celebrated with the G's and Mary on the 6th. :-)

Happy 6th of July!! Looks like Vader and Ironman were put in time out. HA!

Johnny and Anth looking on, Oooo fireworks!, Ed jumping over the fireworks like Jack Be Nimble, and Marcos and Ed lighting more fireworks.

Ooooo pretty fireworks!

Some of our youngest fans :)

Alumni helping out at the firework stand! You girls are awesome!

The Big Bang sold on July 2nd to this awesome couple from Calvary Chapel!

Happy Anniversary! and an awesome stache.

On Monday we celebrated our 7th Anniversary! So blessed!! Crazy how time flies! I guess I'm realizing that more and more. Time doesn't move as slow as it did say in college, high school, or elementary school. Especially elementary school - that felt like two life times! ha! Trying to enjoy my time and life as much as I can, while I can - because I don't want to look back saying I wish I did more or spent more time with family and friends.

So we are super practical with our gifts - most of the time. For instances, my vacuum died 2 days before Valentines - and that's what I wanted. :) Poor Marcos got flak from a ton of people, but I reassured them that it was actually what I wanted. 1st anniversary we got a HP black and white laser printer. He is still here with us today. :) Mr. HP LaserJet 1022. etc. etc. So for this year, we got a little Weber BBQ. Smokey Joe. Keeping a super low profile on our patio. So BBQ and our special dinner place and call it two thumbs up. Oh, and a Crayola white board. Love it! :)

However, the thing that truly made our day was 1) Marcos had the day off! and 2) Johnny and his new mustache. HAHA HUH-LLLARRRIIIOUS.

That's all for now.

OH, and I hit a homerun tonight!! :) Doesn't matter what league, division, or type of softball... it still feels good. :)

Just the facts, ma'am.

My studs.

Last Day of School and 2nd Recital

Today is the last day of Pre-K for Johnny! We are so amazed at how quickly he has grown up! 

He just completed his first year at Pacific Conservatory with his 2nd recital! We're so proud of him! 

Here's to summer and many more goofy adventures!

- LO

Johnny's 2nd recital
Pacific Conservatory

Last Day of Pre-K! Holding his beginning of the year photo.

What a silly boy!

Trying on Mickey's R2-D2 hat

My Goofy Boy having fun at Disneyland!

Gardening Season is back!

Wow, sorry for such a long gap in postings! Last post was in October about how the growing season was ending...

Blogging is back. Much goes on hiatus during softball season. For those who don't know, I'm an assistant coach for Calvary Chapel's varsity softball team in Santa Ana. And I absolutely love it! We had a fantastic season this year. Continuing our Orange Coast League Undefeated streak to 4 years! The girls are awesome. We are losing 3 seniors this year. :-( We are super proud of them and look forward to seeing what God has for their lives as they continue on with college. :-) If you haven't checked us out yet we are on Facebook, Twitter, and our own website. ALSO! If you buy fireworks for 4th of July, come by our stand at Harbor and MacArthur in Santa Ana. We are doing our first softball firework stand as a fundraiser! Super excited for it. It'll be here before I know it!

 So now that softball is over, I have begun my annual post-softball season apartment cleaning, and blog post! ha! It seems to go that way each year.

On to gardening!! :-D I planted a handful of seeds in my in-laws garden again in May. Hoping to go back to their place and see how my little plants are doing. I have a little Garden Diary that I write down what I planted and when. I try to put in little updates on what was worked/grew or not, often writing suggestions down for next time, or just some random thoughts that I might have. However, one of those most recurring thoughts is - I want a bird. :-) Ha!

Well, that's all for now until more photos are taken of the patio garden.

Ciao Bella,

Lindsey

Potato #5 tag
My adopted garden at my In-Laws
 :: created from a stick that I cut down and a folder label ::
Photo credit: Marcos O'Rourke

Potato Tags and Gloves on a hay bail

Almost at the end of the growing season

I tried my best as keeping the plants alive this year.
Here's what's left:
- Star Jasmine "Jasmine"
- Johnny Tomato
- Blueberry "Jake"
- Jalapeño
- Calla lily "Lily Belle"
- egg plant (no flowers this year)

Since I'm in a 9/10 region (however with low sunlight due to apartments and trees), I'm going to try and get at least one or two tomatoes to ripen.
As I was cleaning today, I forgot that I had tied my tomato plant to another pot's support stick. So as I moved the tomato pot -- SNAP --. Oops, that'd be the strongest of the tomato plant left hanging on the support stick - in another pot. Le sigh. Fortunately there are a few flowers and buds growing still on the main stem line. I kept the broken off stems to see if they'd ripen off the plant. Here's to hoping.
The jalapeño plant was most successful.
I got 1 cucumber this year! Hooray!
The Calla Lily seems to be doing great. I hope she has flowers next year. I saw one for a short time this year. And wow, was it beautiful. Made me appreciate it more.
Star Jasmine finally was blooming flowers after the initial replanting shock. Hooray! I love the smell of star jasmines.
The Blueberry plant didn't grow any Buds this year. I think it takes a few years to start producing. Until then, we'll be patient.
We named the plants this year. It was fun. I think next year we will put name placards on each pot. I think that'd be fun. :-)

Ciao,
LO

P.S. the plants that didn't grow/died/mauled by squirrels are on the green lid. Yep. :-(

The survivors.

Tomato Plant with flowers and bud.

All the plants that didn't make it.

Star Jasmine "Jasmine"

Jalepeno Plant with flower.

Eggplant. Yeah, he hasn't grown much...

Calla Lily "Lily Belle"

Blueberry plant "Jake" - new growth