My new read...

I checked this fabulous book out from the library. It teaches you how to plan fruit & veggies in pots if you have small spaces. So far I love it! It also teaches how to mix plants so that the soil stays rich, and also how to arrange/combine plants in pots for beauty, not just taste! I'm so excited to get starting on my gardening. :) Hopefully at the end of the summer I'll have some beautiful & yummy photos!

Emma discovers a squirt bottle.

Happy Birthday Jen!

I meant to post this yesterday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Shane's sister Jen's birthday was yesterday. We miss her so much. She's the only member of our family that is super far away, and we don't get to see her to often. She's busy planning her wedding, and spending lots of time with her luvy-duvy Josh. We hope you had a great day! :)

Love, Shane, Carrie & Emma

Interesting...

I found this article today on Yahoo...I never know that something like this was underway around the world. Even more interesting was that there were similar ones in Afganistan, Iraq and the Phillipines, but they needed to find a more secure location away from weather/war. I just thought it was cool!

http://green.yahoo.com/news/afp/20080224/sc_afp/norwayarcticenvironmentwarmingcrops.html

Urban Vegetable Gardening

This summer, my plan is to finally do a little gardening. Since we are in a townhouse, with no real yard of our own, I'm looking into learning about container vegetable gardening. If anyone has had some experience with this, please share! I am a beginner, and I'm looking at starting simple.

I'm going to try to grow a few herbs, some tomatoes, and some squash/zuchini. I'm going to have Shane build me some containers that are larger for the tomato plants and their cages and the squash, but I found a website below that had this idea for container gardening in small areas...I thought it looked pretty cool! I might try it of the herbs and lettuce that I'd like to grow in small containers.

You create it out of water/soda bottles and then attach them to some plywood. It creates a vertical growing space, when other space is limited. Pretty cool!







It may look a little ghetto, but I love how it takes up such little space! :) I guess we'll see how much of a green thumb I have as I begin my gardening adventure this spring! :)

Cougar Mountain Park

After Shane got off work tonight, it was still a beautiful day and we went for a little drive. We ended up at the top of Cougar Mountain, and found a fantastic viewpoint. The park is huge and there were only a couple of other people there at the same time, it was very peaceful. Except for the fact that there were large areas where there was a ton of animal hair all over the grass, and some pretty obvious cougar tracks and scratches on the ground. It was making me a little nervous. It was beautiful, though!

Coupon for MAC users!

I've given up on traditional scrapbooking, and at the beginning of each year I create a MAC photo book. The idea came from Jake and AJ. They put together the cutest photo book for their wedding reception. Anyway, since then at the beginning of each year, I do a photo book of all the previous year's adventures. You can journal as well, and then its all put together in one nice hard-cover, professionally printed book. I love it!

Anyway, I was working on the book for last year and they are currently running a coupon for 20% off if you order your books by February 29th. Great deal! The full books are about $100 books if you do the maximum pages, so the 20% really pays off.

Use this code: NAWinterBook08

I miss the creativity of scrapbooking, but love the feeling of accomplishment and closure for just getting it done!