Gardening

Over the past couple of weekends David's Dad has been bringing us truck loads of dirt to fill the retaining wall in our backyard. After a bunch of truck loads and a lot of shoveling on Davids part we finally got it full of dirt, its only taken close to a year since he finished the wall but hey at least its finally done. So once all the dirt got put in we got our garden planted for this year. We planted tomatoes, squash, onions and bell peppers. We have no idea how the onions or bell peppers will do here in Arizona so we only planted one bush each and we figure if they grow and we actually get some veggies off of them then we will go ahead and plant more next year. Last year we planted just tomatoes and I have to say I absolutely loved having home grown tomatoes (I am a little bit of a tomato freak, they one of my favorite snacks). So this year we wanted to expand our garden a little bit. But the cutest thing of all was watching Dutch help his Dad. He just loves "helping" us out and it is so cute to watch him try to imitate us. So while David was shoveling dirt we got Dutch a little wheel barrow and shovel so he can help out. Lets just say that he wasn't super helpful but it sure was cute. Now we have come to understand a big mistake that we made while planting our garden. We let Dutch "help" us dig the holes for the plants and move the dirt. So now trying to make Dutch understand that we don't need to dig holes in the garden anymore is quite a challenge. Every time he goes outside now, he heads straight for the garden with his shovel. So hopefully he won't do to much damage and our plants will survive.