What will happen next?

Seriously where is their mother? While I was thinking this was such a great opportunity to take photos of them in front of the garden--I neglected to move the knife I used to harvest the crop to a safer place. Edie took her chance to get back at her sister for tackling her. No just kidding. Edie has an affinity for knives anyway so she was crawling to take a look at it. I promptly took it away from her, (Yikes) but not before I laughed.

Garden's Bounty

Our beautiful garden at the very beginning of September or end of August--can't quite remember. We finally had to mulch everything and pull out the plants about the second week of October. The green tomatoes were all brought in and have been ripening on the window sills. I have done about 8 qts. sauce from just the ones that had to ripen inside. There will be one last batch, but I'll be lucky if it equates to 2 qts. We had a battle with the earwigs over the zucchini plants. In the end I'd like to say that I won, but I don't really know how many more we would have had without those *&^# earwigs. It is sort of funny since two out of the three plants were supposed to have been cucumber plants. Since all that you see here were started from seed there are bound to be mistakes when transplanting to bigger plants. Next year I'll start my parents off with store bought cucumbers--since apparently ours were not hardy enough.

Lauren also had a birthday that went unrecognized by the blog for a whole month and 1/2. It was a costume party and she was wonder woman again (or super woman).

Family Pictures

I completely forgot about the family pictures that were taken at our Archibald Family Reunion this summer. In fact I seemed to have forgotten to post anything from that reunion. What was I thinking?! So here is the fam.

I like this one a lot despite the booty sticking out. We certainly all love Chris.