Green Thumb: Part 5

The Season is coming to an end and many are pulling out their gardens but we are holding out hope. Come on little garden... Grow! Grow! Grow!

1st Day of Kindergarten

I can't believe that Victoria is old enough to start school! She is so smart and way ready. She'll do awesome but we will miss her at home tons! She's been my big helper forever! What am I gonna do with out you kiddo? LOL!

She got up and got all ready with the kids this morning. Then after we let the older kids off at the corner, we headed over to the Kindergarten Center. Victoria was very brave walking into the school and into her classroom, hanging up her bag and getting to her seat. She looked so grown up sitting there. Have a great day, Sis!

Victoria had a great day! She only got a little nervous one time on the playground! After school she rode the bus to the Elementary where she met Liberty & Justice and her friends to walk home. They had a little glitch with the bus driver today but she really liked riding it so hopefully tomorrow will go smoother. Way to go, Victoria! Good Luck at school, little lady! XOXO!

Home Alone 4

The 3 older kids are all up and gone to school. Good luck guys!

But that leaves #4... HOME ALONE with Mom. It will be an adjustment for sure. Not that little Glory girl doesn't love her Mommy but she's never been Home Alone all day before. This morning was rough. LOL! Perhaps it' because she didn't get her morning "coffee" (a good dose of Dora). I decided to have her do a bit of a reading program video instead. You know, be the good Mom and give her a head start on her learning. ;) Believe me... I won't be making that mistake tomorrow! She was so crabby and thought she had to yell at me for everything. Whew! This little girl needs her morning fix! She did come and help me take something to the school for Justice but she had to make sure she took her Backpack along. She even informed me that she "has a teacher too". Her name is Mrs. Sully (Say "sool EEE" as Glory would say) and she teaches at Mrs. Sully's school. So... Mrs. Sully, if you are out there... Glory's ready!
Luckily, the afternoon wasn't as rough. We had a picnic lunch on our "School blanket" [Thanks Aunt Kathie], read books and took a nap. She helped me pick out the menu and took everything out. She can be a very sweet helper when she wants to be.

Hopefully, we figure out a routine and have some amazing Mommy/ Daughter time this year. I think we will as long as we make time for a big cup of Dora every morning! LOL!

IIIIIIIIIIIIII Looooooooooooove Yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou, Glory girl!

Sunday Scones

We had a couple new friends over tonight for scones. There have been soooo many neat people move into the area over the last couple months. What better way to get to know them than share some yummy treats together? Justice and Joshua have been dying to get together so tonight we made it happen.

Also, we met Karen at Church for the 1st time today. We're so glad we happened to meet her so we could have her over and get to know her better.

We even shared our fancy new jams we got in Medora-- Buffalo berry and Juneberry jam! Along with our favorite scone staples-- cinnamon & sugar, honey butter, homemade raspberry and starwberry freezer jam, nutella and powdered sugar. Sweet yummy goodness! Thanks to Karen and the Stephens for coming!

Back to School Lateover

In celebration of making it through our 1st week of school, the kids had a lateover tonight with their friends. Liberty went to the Larsens while Maggie & Soph and the Stephens kids came to our place. Lots of fun!
For dinner, Brett roasted hot dogs for everyone in the firepit. Thanks Honey!
The kids played outside the entire night. Most of the girls fun happened on top of the popup. They had chairs and stuffed animals up there. They even "sold" chips and rocks for free. Silly girls!
The boys jumped on the tramp, did the zipline and hung out in the hammock. Justice was so excited to have a boy over. Finally!!! (Not that he doesn't love the girls it's just boy playing is so different!)

What a fun night!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Fargo Favorites #48

I must be hungry today cuz all the things I'm grateful involve food! LOL

1. Kemp's Milk

I haven't always enjoyed milk but over the last couple years I love to have a large glass or two for dinner. AND my family (well at least my hubby) are Milk freaks! [He consumes at least 3 heaping bowls of cereal every night before bed all with their own filled to the top share of milk] We usually buy 9 gallons every 2 weeks! Yes, you read right---- NINE gallons! I know, I know... we should just buy our own cow. Believe me... we've talked about it! Well, here in Fargo, my favorite kind of milk has become Kemp's. So yummy! The funny thing is that I think a lot of them are made in the same factory because I can tell when the Cass Clay milk gets into a Kemp's bottle. Kuck! I guess we're not only milk freaks but milk snobs as well. LOL! Oh yeah & one more thing... we won't be having any "milk water" [Skim] at the Seamons. We go for the good stuff 'round here! Vitamin D, Baby!

2. Fresh Corn on the Cob

Corn on the cob is my favorite food! I love to eat as much of it as I can in the Fall. Unfortunately we aren't going to get a great harvest of corn from our garden this year. If we're really lucky we'll maybe get a couple of 3 inch cobs. LOL! So sad! But we picked some up this week from a farmer and it was heavenly! I ate all my share and whatever else anyone didn't finish!

3. Snack Grants

This year our school got approved for a Snack Grant! The kids will get to try all kinds of fruits and veggies during the week. I'm only in charge of sending a snack on Mondays for Liberty. I think I can handle that! (Can you tell I was not very good at that last year? Dang! Slacky Momma!)

4. Fresh BLTs

Garden food is so much better. Don't you think? One thing that we grew good this year in our garden was lettuce. So we picked up some awesome tomatoes and made our selves so delicious fresh, BLTS. We teased that we should have been raising a pig and we could have had REALLY fresh ones! But they were YUMMMY!

5. Produce Stands

Every Fall the fresh produce stands pop up all over Fargo. I just had to stop this week. I came home with all sorts of stuff. But our favorites fruits were the Yellow Watermelon & Colorado Peaches. We are living on peaches and cream over here, people! Sooooo good!

So...

What do you find YUMMY?

1st Day of School 2011-12

Wake up sleepyheads, Summers over! LOL After a good breakfast, we decided to walk to school this morning. It was a bit chilly but the kids loved walking! They got their stuff in their lockers and off they went to class.

Looks like they had a fantastic 1st day of school! Good Luck this year! Love ya!

[PS Kindergarten doesn't start until Monday]