Family Farm

Our family farm is growing! We recently got our Tower Gardens. I am SO EXCITED about these! This is an aeroponic system, so there is no soil. So I don't have to pull weeds! Using this system also alows me to garden year round. So has the growing season ends here in Florida, I still get to have fresh produce! We also planted sweet potatoes that we had to protect from the ducks. I did't think about it, and one days we noticed that the leaves from the slips were all gone! Luckily they are growing back now that we put chicken wire around them.

The ducks are so big! They are almost 2 months old already. They are so funny to watch, and they are afraid of everything! We also decided to go ahead and get 4 chickens last night. This morning we got our first egg!We look forward to all the eggs we will get!

Summer has begun!

Our fist day of summer break, I was brave enough to go to the beach by myself with the three kidos. 

KaeLynn won a bike!

KaeLynn's school had a contest in their 3rd grade, that one boy and one girl that got the most "Reading Counts' points wins a bike. When I found out about this contest, I knew that this would be the perfect motivation for KaeLynn to get a new bike since she was just complaining to me that morning how much she needs a new one. She set her mind to it and she won. The Reading Counts program is when the kids read books that count for points. The harder the book, the more points it's worth. When she decided that she was going to be serious about doing this, there was another girl in her grade that was already 200 points ahead of her. But that did not discourage her. But it wasn't just about the bike. KaeLynn discovered a love for reading that we all didn't know she had. She read all the Percy Jackson series, and loves all the book that author Rick Riordan writes. She also discovered that she can accomplish what she sets her mind too! She ended up getting 660 points! I am so happy for her! Now that summer has begun, her and I are reading the Harry Potter series together.