Realized Dreams

We have pretty simple dreams around here (except the one where I want...oh never mind).

Since we moved here to this home, one predominant dream for us was simply to have a vegetable garden.

Over the past few weeks, Cameron has been building a huge raised bed box for the first phase of our garden. He has learned new skills with new tools and has accomplished this awesome task. He finished filling the area with a great garden growing mixture (peat moss, composted fertilizer and vermiculite) yesterday and we all went to Western Garden Center to pick out our plants.

Woo Hoo!!!

We left the nursery with twenty-four tomato plants and two summer squash and a chives. We hope to get more next Saturday.

We are so excited!!!

This morning, Ella told us that she wanted to go check on the tomatoes. When she came back into the house, she said "There aren't any tomatoes on the plants yet."

So cute! She wouldn't really remember our big garden from a few years ago anyway. But she was our hardest kid-worker, breaking up a huge block of peat moss by herself. The rest of gardening, she'll learn.

Ella is also part of our dream to have musically-skilled children. She began piano lessons this week and she loves it! She's practiced a lot since her lesson and each time she reaches the end-of-piece double bar she hollers: STOP!

The final dream leg that Cam is embarking on this week is his promotion. Long hoped for, long denied for the simple fact that we do not live and will not live where the main offices for his company are located. His talent and general awesomeness cannot be denied any longer and he has been given a job worthy of his abilities. I'd say his employees are pretty lucky. :)

Go Cameron! Go Daddy!