Disneyland with cousins

We went to Disneyland last week and met up with Kevin, Dawn, Hunter, Aidan, Ethan, Luis, Kim and Isaac. They were there for the whole day. We met up with them when we got there at about 5pm.

Here are some pictures from that trip...

"Wave good bye to the beautiful people on the dock... now wave to the ugly ones!..."


Almost everyone went on the Matterhorn- even Tegan! Yep, she's tall enough... when did that happen?! Here's before...

Here's after... Tegan looks like she's still deciding if she liked it or not.

Everyone else getting off the Matterhorn.

Regrouping, and snacking between rides.

It was a good time at the Disneyland. We only have a few more days available before we're blocked out for the summer. Hopefully we'll be able to go at least once more as a family. It would be awesome to be able to go for a date night with Anna, but getting babysitting during week days is tough. We'll see.

monday music 06.07.10

Got my inspiration from a friends post on facebook for today's music.

The Wonder Stuff, "Give me More"

I LOVE early 90s "alternative" music.

If you liked that song, The Wonder Stuff have many more great songs. Search for them on youtube.

Harvesting

Well, it's been a couple weeks since I posted anything about the garden. Last week was WAY too crazy to be worrying about putting up blog entries. But, I have a few moments today, so here's a garden-y update... We've been harvesting!

This is the last of the three large heads of broccoli we had growing. It was picked last week. Along with some fantastic looking zucchini and yellow squash.


Not long after that I picked another zucchini and the "seconds" of one of the broccoli plants, with a yellow squash and a strawberry.

Another harvested zucchini and a couple of berries. The bugs are still getting to the strawberries before we can get them. I think I'm suppose to put some plastic down around the plant, but wouldn't the bugs just climb on that too? Need to do more research on possible solutions.

These I picked today. More "seconds" from another Broccoli plant, some zucchini and yellow squash. Good stuff.

We've eaten a good amount of the broccoli thus far, but still have a bunch more. Need to start eating more zucchini before we get backed up on those. Same goes for the yellow squash. The corn stalks are all doing well, and have many ears of corn on them. It won't be long till we're overwhelmed with them all. We're actually looking forward to that part. I'm starting to believe that the watermelon plant probably won't make it after all. Might have to go pick up another one and see if that one will do better. Or maybe I could transplant some corn in it's place. We'll see. That's it for this week.

monday music 05.24.10

Monday music time. I went to the playlist of the local radio station that I often listen to, X103.9FM, to see what I could share. Their playlist is pretty close to KROQ's, so it's all stuff I like.

This is what I chose to go with... The name of the group is Crash Kings, and the song is titled "Mountain Man". They have been compared to the White Stripes as far as their music goes.

I figured it was the best song for today since on Friday I'll be taking some older scouts to a campout called the Mountain Man Rendezvous.

Anyway, I think it's a pretty good song. Check it out.

friday flashback 05.21.10

Flashback picture time...

Another picture from a very memorable family trip to Hawaii.

Ah, yes... no trip to Hawaii is complete without a hike up to the top of Diamond Head. This trip is getting close to being 10 years ago! That's crazy.

That gave me a pretty good idea!... should we plan to go next year since it will have been 10 years? Just an idea, but if it's a popular idea, we should all start saving now.

All I know, is it's fun to all get together, so whenever or wherever is fine with us.

Not too shabby

I ran out of time to do a quick weight loss update yesterday, so here's one today.

Last week I weighed in at 219.6 lbs.

Yesterday I weighed myself, and I weighed 217.0 lbs. That's 2.6 pounds lost. NICE!

I'm really hoping to be at (or under) 215.0 next week!

I'm shooting for 200.0 lbs. by July 3rd. We'll see.

Green grow the garden, oh

This week I have been able to notice how far the garden has come along without having to compare it to pictures of weeks past.

Here are the first squashes I picked. They then immediately chopped up and sauteed for dinner. The zucchini in the middle started to wilt, so it had to get used before it all withered away.


Here's the over all garden this week.

In box one, the yellow squash and broccoli are the Goliaths to the Davids that are the strawberries and other plants. I'm sure I'll be picking some more yellow squashes very soon. I can't believe how many strawberries are growing and that the birds haven't gotten them yet. *I really need to do something to protect them. I keep putting it off.*

I'm almost certain it's the birds and not bugs eating my pepper buds. Guess I'll need to cage this one too.

The broccoli is looking REALLY good these days. Nice and full.

In fact, I cut off the head of the middle broccoli right after taking their picture. That's a whole bunch of broccoli...

Here's the remaining broccoli plant from the first head I picked. I'm showing you the other off-shoots that sprung up.

In box two, the zucchini plants are in full bloom. There are three or four zucchini on them that I hope to pick in the next week. The corn tops are starting to come out. That means they'll be pollinating soon! After that the corn ears will start to grow!

Here's a shot of the corn seedlings. Some are getting over six inches already. I still need to thin it out.

It's all looking quite nice these days.

In stark contrast, I can't keep my lawn green or weed free at all! I admit, I need to be better at watering, but what am I watering, the weeds? Last time I tried a "weed and feed", it pretty much fried everything, and made more room for more weeds! Not cool. I think what I'll do is mow it all super short, try to de-thatch what's in the ground, then put a bunch of new seed down and see if I can get that to grow and overtake the weeds. We'll see.