Spring Planting

Plant maze pumpkins - Check! Twenty-seven varieties from big ones to Cinderella pumpkins, white pumpkins and little pumpkins. Plus my new favorite, the Kakai pumpkin which has hulless seeds. Also some gourds and squash.

Plant petunias - Check! Hosanna and Ella split the flowers up in flats.

Couldn't do it without such great workers!!!

Lots of sore muscles!

Jenna picked up the empty packs. This job is typically given to the youngest person on the crew.

I wasn't actually out planting but I'm told that it sounded like 4th of July with all the semi trucks and cars that honked at the workers!

Arthur digs the holes with his three tine, "Hoe, hoe, hoe!" Miriam drops the four packs after the other girls split them into the flats. And the rest of the workers plant a four pack and then jump up and run to the end of the line and start all over with another four pack.  It works great!

Plant our garden - Check!
Plant all the field crops - Check! Wheat, flax, soybeans, corn.
Plant flowers at home - Almost done!

What a relief to have the big spring planting projects done!
We so appreciate the gorgeous weather God has sent our way! We could use rain, but seeing how other states are struggling so bad with too much rain, we can't complain.  

Next on the agenda is VBS next week. Then we really need to go full speed to get the maze ready.

Meanwhile, we give Hosanna advice as she asks about all the wedding prep and decisions that need to be made.  Today she made strawberry rhubarb jam to bring to her future home.

Am I the only one that tears up every single time the wedding march is played?  And it's played every single day by at least one person at our house!!! Not sure its actually going to be used at the wedding, but for some reason, Hosanna just wants to hear it every single day! Hosanna and Cilla are heading to camp after VBS for a few weeks so she is doing as much of the wedding prep as she can before leaving.

I took one day this week and hemmed her wedding dress. That was quite the project and I made her try it on over and over just to make sure I didn't cut too much off.  Hosanna will be such a beautiful bride and wonderful wife! I always say, a mother works and prays so hard to get her daughters ready for that day in her life when she meets a young man and gets married and when that day finally comes, you feel like yelling, "How dare you get married!" We are going to miss her SO much :( But we are super happy for her! Also looking forward to adding Nate to the family!

Well that's about it for today. Please pray for the farmers around the country who are battling flooding and drought if you think of it.