Our Little Gardener

 This is our very small garden.  Chad and my dad got busy tilling the soil as soon as we came home from the hospital with Caroline--yes the same day, probably within an hour.  (It's amazing how things are so different with the second baby!)  After preparing the soil, they headed out to buy some plants.  We started out with one tomato plant, three squash, and one zucchini plant.  We've tried having a garden in years past, and we've never had any success because of all the shade.  So my dad suggested a garden right in our front yard.  So, yep, that's where it is... right beside our front walkway.  And it has been very successful!  Well, not really the tomato plant, but the squash and zucchini have done extremely well.  Our refrigerator is stocked daily and we've even had to give some away because it's been more than we can eat!  Chad is loving tending  to the garden, of course, but Grayson has also enjoyed being with his daddy outside.  He loves to tell people that his "daddy growing kinni."

This was our very first zucchini.  It was there when we got home from vacation and it was rather large, but still delicious.  We've been eating them sauteed, grilled, and in casseroles.  I'm trying to get creative with ways to eat our abundance of veggies.