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A weekend of parties and fun...oh a veggies of courseWhat a busy weekend...well I have been so busy since last Friday. This past weekend we had company. My little garden helper is turning 5 and we planned a weekend of fun with family. On Friday we did all of our food shopping and then picked up my husband at noon. We got home and had lunch and just when we finished my aunt from Ct arrived. Shortly after that my mom arrived. We all toured the yard and garden. My husband and I planned that Friday night would be date night. We left Logan with my mom and aunt and we went to dinner and a movie. We saw the " Dark Knight". Pretty good flick, just a little long. we were home by 10:30pm. On Saturday morning I had a lot of packing up to do. The first part of the party was happening at the local state park and beach. It is a nice small lake. My Aunt, Mom and Logan went to the beach before hand to get a picnic area with a grill and my hubby and I waited until my brother and his family arrived at out house. We all got to the beach around 11. The kids all played while I set up the lunch and cooked the corn, hotdogs and hamburgers on the grill. Everyone had a great lunch and then played in the water and sand for the rest of the afternoon. We did have several uninvited guests at the party...there are a lot of female ducks wandering around the beach looking for food and 3 stayed around our party all day. 
We of course fed the cute little ducks. My brother picked one up and fed it as well. Very tame ducks. They look like a duck I had when I was a young child. Here are some pics of the the day at the beach. 
We got back to our house at about 4pm, set up our tents in the back yard for camping out and had a fabulous meal. I made rolled venetian pizzas and pasta. On of the pizzas had pepperoni and cheese and the other had proscutto, cheese and spinach. After dinner we cake. Logan loves Thomas the Tank Engine and he picked out a Thomas Cupcake cake. 
At around 7 logan started opening his pressies. He got a few Thomas trains, clothes and a little range rover that pulls a horse trailer. 
You may be asking yourselves...Did they get to camp out? Well no...no S'mores, no tenting. While Logan was opening his pressies the thunder, lightening, rain and wind started. We decided it was just safer to sleep inside. So in the air mattress came and my brother's family tented in our living room. For breakfast on Sunday I made home made Belgian Waffles with all the fruit toppings, whipped cream and ch. chips. We also had sausage and bacon. It was a great breakfast. My mom left in the morning and my brothers family by 10:30am. My aunt planned to stay until monday morning. Sunday was a very hot and humid day and I didn't get a lot done outside but I did get in the garden to see what was growing. The cucumbers are doing very well. I picked one of Saturday night and another on sunday. There are several more growing and many more to come. The love this humid, wet weather. 
The tomato plants are doing very well. On Friday I gave them all haircuts. I took about a wheel barrow full of leaves off of the plants. Most of the plants have several little tomatoes on them! And many have quiet a few! 
Here is a huge pumpkin leaf. the pumpkins are taking over and i need to thin them out before it is too late. 
I was taking pictures of the string beans. they are so full and look so nice. there are flowers all over the vines. 
and then I spotted these... 
Doing a little gig..I going to have string beans this week!!! Yippie!!! Here are just some various pictures of sunflowers that have grown since the last blog. 
My husband spent Sunday afternoon clearing out under the in law apartments porch and putting up lattice to prevent the skunk known as Mr. Stinky from getting under again. Mr. Stinky sprayed 3 times last winter. we think we was able to get under the porch but when we got a lot of snow he was not able to get out and well he would get mad and ...STINK! We always though that skunks hibernated all winter. That is what Flower did in Bambi..but NO...they sleeps for days and maybe a week at a time but come out and look for food...Hopefully the lattice will stop him from getting under again. 
Someday we will make something nicer. In the next few summers we will be replacing the porch with something new. Well that is the weekend. It was hot and humid but we all had a great time with the family. I hope that everyone had a great weekend! This blog entry has been viewed 400 times
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What a lot of work for you, hope you had as much fun as everyone else appears to have had. There is something about pre-schoolers and Thomas the Tank Engine, they all love him.
What a weekend you had. Sounds like a lot of work. But what we won't do for our kids. I know Logan will have the good memories forever. Looks like a good time was had by all!! Thanks for sharing your weekend with us.
Nice veggie and flower pics. Nice latticework protection. Fingers crossed that it will work.
Gardenmama I just love to hear about your family. Sounds like a geat weekend you all had. Happy Birthday to Logan. Isn't family the greatest! Nice pics of your sunflowers. I would frame them
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