Gardening Girls!

We planted a little garden this week! My little girlies, our sweet friend, Gwen & I spent 5 hours planting our winter garden on Thursday morning. Gwen has been gardening her whole life so she came over to help us get started. (Thank you Gwen, for sharing all of your wisdom & knowledge about gardening, mommy-hood & everything else! I had so much fun with you!) Her teenage daughter, Sheree, came over to play with our 4 girlies while Gwen & I worked. (Thank you Sheree, our girls love you & you were such a great help to me!) Our sweet little Ava took an awesome nap while our big girls came outside to help. Amy, Ashley & Abby were my sweet little helpers and had so much fun playing, digging, planting and watering! We planted broccoli, onions, kale, rosemary, thyme, sweet basil, oregano, mint, cilantro and curled parsley. We are excited about our little garden and we can't wait to eat our veggies and cook with our fresh herbs! We are planning on planting a summer garden in the spring with all the salad veggies and anything else we can grow! Gardening reminds me of how amazing God is! He creates life and allows it to grow. I"m so grateful that He shows His love for us by providing practically & even delights in allowing us to enjoy fun things like veggies from our own garden! We planted on Thursday & by Sunday we already had kale and onions coming up that we had planted from scratch ~ amazing! I must say, Daddy was pretty impressed by how much his "outdoor gardening girls" got done & he is very proud of us! If you don't know me well, I'm not exactly the most outdoorsy girl you'll ever meet. I try, but sometimes my love of all things neat & tidy comes shining through even when I try to "suppress" it : )! I'm about as opposite as can be of my sweet sister, Emily. She's my beachy, all natural, "granola-girl"! I love her with all my heart & there are so many things about her I wish I was! My friends who know me well were surprised (dare I say, shocked : ) !, but very happy to hear about my gardening adventure! I had so much fun gardening with our little sweetie girls ( & Gwen too!)! Our garden will be a fun part of home school this year for our girls and I! It was HARD WORK (I was super sore the next day from all the ground breaking!) but SO MUCH FUN! : )