our first homegrown watermelon

we decided saturday was the day to finally pick our watermelon

with our fingers crossed it would actually be ripe

gardening has been a lot of fun and a big experiment this year

we have successfully grown kale, lettuce, green onion, carrots, lots of cantaloupe, one watermelon,

zucchini, basil, one tomato :), and we have a ton of pumpkins coming

 there she is!

 seriously, best watermelon we've ever had

 we ate it with nachos on the back porch

 it's a good thing we have such a cute resident gardener here

 we love spending time together in our backyard

michael gave the kids airplane rides and they allll loved it

i love them all lined up waiting their turns

michael figures he'd better do it while he's still young :) 

i feel like he's forcing me to have like 12 kids because he's such a good dad

 trampoline time

 after some jumping i tried to get a family picture of us all laying down

i'm under henry :)

 we got one! even if henry and eleanor weren't super thrilled about it

i could not love this family of mine any more

yay for end of summer nights and homegrown watermelon!!