May Garden Update

My favorite time of the day is when I go outside in the morning and water the garden. Complete peace! It's the piece and quiet before the storm of kids and homework, animals, and chores.  

The garden is growing beautifully. 

The snap peas have taken off and are doing a fine job of finding the chicken wire to climb. We've even gotten a few flowers starting! 

 The raspberries always do amazing. I love watching the leaves come in and fill out. I've started to get tiny buds forming, so I know the flowers will be coming shortly. 

We've uncovered all of the tomato plants since I took this photo, and all are doing well. A few I think we stunted by the cold before we could get them covered with the plant protectors, but that's ok. It's stayed warm enough now for us to take the plant protectors off and leave them off. Sam is hoping for a bountiful harvest from his tomato plants! 

We lost one cabbage plant, but I'm not stressing. Five is plenty for our family. I am crossing my fingers we won't have an earwig problem this year! They totally demolished our cabbage plants last year. I have my oil traps ready to put in the ground at a moments notice. 

The strawberries are doing amazing! It's always such a pain to clean out the bed, but I love watching them grow and chase the sun! We've got a TON of flowers right now, so I'm just waiting to see the first little berries start to form. 

The swiss chard came in spotty. Again, no stress. It happens. I think I'll wind up having plenty. I've also got two pots of lettuce up on the porch steps by the house (not pictured), so I'll have a nice selection of greens to pick from and snack on when ready. 

Ahh, the broccoli! I LOVE watching the broccoli grow. So far I don't have any heads forming, but soon!! I feel like the whole garden could be broccoli and it still wouldn't be enough! 

The bush beans are slowly making their way. They seriously took forever to sprout, but here they finally are. I'm looking forward to seeing their beautiful flowers, if we ever get that far! lol 

We decided not to plant pumpkin in the pumpkin patch this year. Instead we bought a whole bunch of sunflower seeds and planted those! We made a big circle, a line in the back, and some in the front two corners. I know you can't see form this photo, but they're all coming through and it's so fun to see the circle of plants! It's going to be really cool looking as they grow bigger! 

I'm extremely pleased to see tons of flowers in our yard over by the trampoline/swing/guest house area. These pretty pink flowers are all over the ground over there! I'm also excited to see my beloved lupine coming in! No flowers on the yet, but we'll get there. Everything takes a bit more time at our elevation. 

Even our new evergreen trees we planted over by the hot tub last year have some new growth on them! I was starting to worry as I kept waiting and waiting and never saw any new growth....but then BAM! Over night there it is! Thank goodness. 

 
Hopefully June will bring us nothing but some more great growth! I can't wait! 

With love,
Mama Hauck

Timberwolf Student of the Week

Molly and Anthony were both chosen as the very first Timberwolf student of the week for their grades! 

EEEKK!! How exciting! And super cool to have both kiddos be the first of their grade and get it at the same time! 

I actually knew Molly had been chosen for her grade because her teacher wrote me, but I had no idea Anthony had been chosen for his grade until I saw the FB post the Middle School made about Timberwolf student of the week. 

Definitely a proud Mama moment. 

Both kiddos got a little certificate and a candy bar that we picked up at the Middle School doors. They were so stoked! 

We are so proud of you two! Keep up the great homeschooling, lol. 

With love,
Mama Hauck

Timothy's Birthday Shenanigans!

Birthdays are different on quarantine. We couldn't do what we wanted to do for Tim, which was to throw a party with all his friends and take them to the trampoline park. He was disappointed about that, but with everything still being closed, we couldn't help it. This year just sucks for birthdays. 

Thankfully my friend Mary was gracious enough to host us for an early birthday dinner for Timothy at her place on the 9th! I was so thankful Timothy at least got to see his friend Trevin for his birthday.  I asked Mary if she would make Timothy's cake for him and she totally nailed it!!! Look at this awesome camping cake!! Timothy was so excited!!!! We ate a delicious dinner of pizza (Tim's choice), green salad, and noodle salad, then dug into the desserts after singing happy birthday to him. 

Birthday time!! Everyone knows it is a tradition in our home to put up the birthday stocking on the door, streamers in the door way, and balloons in the bedroom. I know the kids look forward to it every year! I remember when they were little, it was no problem waiting for them to fall asleep and then Sammy and I sneaking out to get everything all set up. We were done by 8 and happily in bed ourselves, lol! Now a days, with them being older, they take forever to go to sleep! I waited until 10:30 to do the streamers (and I'm not even certain he was truly asleep!), then had to get up in the middle of the night to put the balloons in his room. Sheesh, not so easy with them being older! 

Even though the kiddos know what they're going to wake up to on their birthday, they are still just as excited as if it were their first time seeing the streamers and balloons. I love it! 

First up, the birthday stocking! Tickets for the family to Wild Waves (whenever it opens this season!!) because Timothy is finally tall enough to ride a roller coaster!, nerf bullets, and some tasty treats and foods we don't normally eat, but are fun to get on your birthday! 

For presents Timothy received cards and money, some new Diary of a Mindcraft Zombie books, walkie-talkies, a pretty awesome felt fake fire, a huge automatic nerf gun, and a canvas tee-pee. He was very excited about all of his gifts, but I'm pretty sure the nerf gun took the cake. 

Tradition calls for measuring each kiddo on the height board on their birthday, so we wasted no time getting that done! The kid is growing like a weed!

Tradition also calls for some birthday photos with Mama and Papa! 

Since there wasn't much we could do on his birthday, but we still wanted to get out and do something, Timothy settled on a lollipop from the bank (lol), and picking up treats and lunch from Bake My Day to eat at Grandma Cathy's (no eating in restaurant, gotta do take out!). Unfortunately for us, Grandma Cathy wasn't home. BUT fortunately for her, it was because she was getting her second hip surgery done. So while Timothy missed his Grandma on his birthday, he understood why.

Back at home, Timothy shared leftover lunch and snuggle time with Mama, a ride on the mower, a run through the sprinkler, and a few rounds of Mother-May-I. I know it wasn't the most exciting birthday for him, and he was sad to not have an actual birthday party with lots of his friends, but I think he enjoyed the chill time with just us. 

To finish off Timothy's birthday, we sang happy birthday to him, ate cupcakes and ice cream, and snuggled with him for a bit in our bed. That's definitely a birthday must!  

We hope you enjoyed your birthday, Hunny Bunny! We love you! 

With love,
Mama Hauck