Saturday, July 17, 2010

Gardening at Granny's

Ava and I headed to mom's today for some green bean harvesting and freezing. It was a fairly productive day. Aside from keeping little girls out from under our feet, we were able to pick, prep, blanch, french, and bag some 33 quarts of thick and juicy fresh green beans. I enjoy summertime most for days like these. :o) It was hotter than hades today, and we worked up a few beads of sweat, but I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it. Except I missed my sister & her family!!! All this gardening business never feels complete without them around! Darn busy lives...

Onto the pictures... Ava had lots of fun romping around granny's house with her step cousins! No pictures of our hard work today... hope you'll enjoy these instead!


Scoping out granny's garden... taking mental notes hopefully! She has the best gardens around!!




Ava and Abby...running around like real country girls do...with the grass between their toes! These two are only a couple weeks apart in age... completely opposite in personalities! Abby is sweet and quiet, just sits back and observes what her big sister and everyone else around her is doing. And Ava, well, she's boisterous...and dominating...and strong-willed. Very strong-willed.





Nothing beats little girls...Seriously. Love. 'Em.




Abby. So sweet.



Oh my...didn't I just mention something about this girl being boisterous?




Grandpa...taking the girls to let the chickens out of their coop. The smaller two are deathly afraid of the chickens. Hence, they are holding onto Grandpa with vice-like grips.




Running wild!




Peek-a-boo!!




Buckets of water keep little girls busy for hours. ;o)

2 comments:

Wendy and Josh said...

OMG! She is getting soo big! I just love the picture of her running between the clothes line! Such a classic picture.

Charissa said...

I love the clothesline pic too... seriously priceless!!