Backyard Randomness

Decided to try planting some new things this year and so far so good. We planted giant strawberries (which have yet to bloom), carrots, beets and tomatoes! Our orange trees have some oranges on them and our apple tree looks like it's going to have lots of apples this year too. The nectarine and lemon trees haven't fared as well. I think the cold weather froze off all of the nectarine blooms so we don't have a single nectarine on the tree. Luckily I still have 5 or 6 bags of nectarine pulp from last season!

As I was out in the backyard trying to get some pics of our garden, the kids were being their wacky selves. Almost every time Brooklyn sees me with my camera, she asks, "Mommy, take pictures of me running at you."

Melanie is usually willing to hop in front of the camera too...although it takes some pretty serious potty humor to get her to give me a real smile!

Brandon does NOT want me to take his picture, unless he's being incredibly silly. I think he was actually thinking of what he could do when I snapped this one.

As soon as Brooklyn saw that I was taking pictures of the other two, she decided that she had to change her outfit and be my model too.

Once the cuteness wears off, she has to be silly too.

Usually they spend most of their playtime swinging. You would think that we were part of a circus show the way they flip around on them. I may send them to the circus one of these days.

We ended the afternoon with some "Slow Motion Running" from Brandon. I think this was what he was thinking up when I took his picture earlier.

Pretty random, as most days are around here. But I know one day, the kids will be older and I will miss all this sillyness!