Harvesting with the Rocketts
Beasley's come to Visit
Kevin, Amy and the girls came to visit us in the Cow Town! The main purpose was to take the girls to Hurricane Harbor. But we did some other things while they were here. We visited with MC, Ben and Ethan at Uncle Julio's and then swam Sunday morning at their pool. We also caught up with the Asher's at Sweet Sammie's and chased the kids out of the very close street. We did some other things like make ice cream, play
Goose comes to town
When Goose and Will get together, we all know its a good time. Goose came for 4 days to the great city of Fort Worth, the fun never stopped. The night he first got here, we took him back to the best pizza you can find at the mellow mushroom and the best frozen custard at Curley's. It was Gooses birthday so we celebrated the best way, pizza and ice cream. The next day we went to the water gardens and the botanical gardens. I know, can you believe I got these guys to any type of garden! That evening we went to the great shopping in Arlington to find Goose some birthday shoes. After the shoe search was a flop, we found ourselves at Chuy's, Mexican cuisine. We were up bright and early the next day for a day at the zoo and a night of baseball. The Rangers killed Tampa bay both Friday night and Saturday. What a weekend! If you know Will and Goose, you know we rarely stopped laughing!
Goose and Will discussing which part of the garden to attend next
Flamingos at the zoo
Elephants are my favorite animals
Leopard
On a day where it was 100 degrees, Will wanted to make batting practice. To bad the Rangers didn't show up because it was 100 degrees!
The Garden has exploded
Here it is ladies and gentelmen, the garden is HUGE! We are getting a lot of tomatoes and soon to have squash and peppers. This is has been so much fun. We look like weirdos from the street but we are soon to be self sufficent!
Sweet 100 tomatoes
Cucumber
Basil
Red and Green Pepper
Squash Fruit
Squash Plant
Watermelon and Honeydew Plants
The whole garden
Caprese Salad
A caprese salad is a traditional Mediterranean dish. It is slices of tomato, fresh mozzarella and basil misted with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Now here is what we have been waiting for. This is a caprese salad made out of out own basil and our own tomatoes!! We loved it!
IKEA Swedish Meatballs
We have spent a few days recently at IKEA. For those of you that don't know, IKEA is a home furnishing store like no other. Very inexpensive and modern. Almost everything in the store is packaged in pieces for you to assemble when you get home. This makes the transportation of the items simple and easy. This store is originally a Swedish store that is now world wide. There are many IKEA's in Europe and a few state side. They have a small cafe where we had Sunday lunch after church one day. Will tried the Swedish meatballs that they advertise all over the store. He loved them!
Curling Barbies Hair
One day when we were in Ruston, I stayed with the girls for a little while. They wanted to do one thing and one thing only. Figure out how to curl a barbies hair. After assuring them I didn't know how too, they said to me, "Google it Aunt Caroline!" So we did! All we needed were bobbypins and a few straws. After you cut up the straws into one inch pieces, you simply curl the hair around the straw and bobbypin it! Sounds easier than it is. The results were okay but we sure had fun.
My 6th month Anniversary Present
For our 6th month anniversary, Will got me an orchid. I came home from driving Ms. Travis and there it was, just sitting there in all of its beauty! I have been wanting an Orchid for a long time. For the last few months, Lowes has had the most beautiful Orchids and I stare at them everytime I pass by. My mother has them all over her house. She baby's them as though they were her own childern. Throughout her house, she probably has about 25 orchids. She enjoys finding sick ones and bringing them back to health. She has been giving me lots of tips for keeping it healthy. Isn't he sweet :)Shish kabobs
We tried these the other night. I am going to be honest, Will did all the marinating and grilling. I just stuck everything on the sticks :) But it was SO good I had to show you a picture.
Time with Jeremy Lott
Will left Fort Worth and went to Paducah for a few days. I don't have a huge liking for being alone. So, I decided to visit our good friend Jeremy Lott in Dallas. He had recently moved from Oak Cliff (a smaller section of Dallas) to down town Dallas. He loves it and lives in an incredible loft appartment. He walks to his grocery store and local farmers market. We went to eat at a burger joint named one of the best in the city. Now that I have tried it, I can agree with the claim. Twisted Root Burger was awesome!!
Our Little Visitor
We have started a compost next to our back door. Since the beginning of the garden, we have been composting to create our own fertilizer. Another thing to preface this story would be may experience, understanding and appreciation for wild animals. I simply to do not like the things and would rather stay away from them. Well, it happens sometimes and it happened to me the other day. Our visitor was visiting right around our compost pile. I went to the compost to toss some lime skins and there he was, glaring up at me was a HUGE possum. Well, since I have never seen a possum up close, I thought he was huge. Will laughed at me when I ran in the house screaming and crying, sad, I know. Now there are a ton of them everywhere. That's the little visitor, here he is.
Can you see them in the bottom left. By the time we got out to take a picture, the second one had already arrived. They are taking over!!
Duke heads to the Final Four
As all of you should know, Will Rockett loves Duke. Not just loves but him and Clark Canterbury could name the players, their statistics, their dogs name and not just the players from this season. It is kinda a cute obsession. Anyways, Duke played West Virgina last Saturday night for a spot in the national championship game on Monday night. I hope you all know that yes did indeed beat West Virgina. In fact, they went on to play Butler for the championship. They barely beat Butler, but sorry Butler, almost doesn't count. Duke is the 2010 national championship. Here are a few pictures of the semi-final game against West Virgina. We were all at Aunt Jans watching it together, the night before Easter. Richard insisted on taking his shirt off with Woo Woo (aka Will) and running around the house celebrating a Duke win!
We love Sams
We were at Sams the other day and guess what we found. We found a 3 pack of FiberOne blueberry muffins for $1.91! WHOA! We were freaking out! We put 10 in our basket and then realized that it make 180 muffins. So we did the responsible thing and put 2 back and only walked out with 8 packages, :)
Then I was in Tom Thumb yesterday and I found this FiberOne Muffin mix. I remind you this is only one package that makes only 6 muffins. Can you see the price?
Emma and Rachel come to the Cowtown
Rachel and Emma came to see me! It was such a fun visit. The purpose of coming was to find a bridesmaid dress for to wear in Rachel's wedding coming up on May 23rd. The other purpose was for Emma to look at more wedding dresses for her to try on. Finding a dress for me was quite difficult. It had to be a gray knee length dress. We looked and looked and finally found a dress after 6 hours of looking and trying on that worked at Ann Taylor Loft. YAY! We quickly went to a bridal shop here close to my house and in less than an hour. Emma had pretty much decided on THE DRESS for her wedding. I must be really picky. She looked great in it! By the next morning she had decided that this dress was the one. She actually payed for it in Shreveport this last weekend!! Over all so great to see them for an extended period of time, we all love each other :)
I made an Egg Tree
When we were in Germany I saw everywhere, including my mothers house, Easter Egg Trees. They were so cute. Mom and I found the real hand painted eggs at Aldi. I liked the plainer ones that did not have a lot of color. I bought and brought them back to the states. Will recomended I go outside to the tree in our front yard and pick some sticks to start. And this is how the very German egg tree looked in our house.
Beginning a Garden
We decided, "Why buy our veggies, lets grow them!!" My mother inspired us when we were in Germany to get out and build out own garden. We set out to Lowes to begin our garden. If you have seen all the Lowes commercials where the people are so great and they help you, well we should have been in one of those commercials. The Lowes guy that we met was great and had a degree in hordiculture. He helped us find the right soil, the right pots and gave us great advice. We began as soon as we got home!
Will is planting the seeds for out herbs in the seed starter kit we got from Lowes
Our tomato plant
We started this all about two weeks ago and we finally started transplanting from the pots to the ground yesterday. When we saw out first sprouts we started to transplant. Here is some pictures from yesterday.
SO GREAT!! We love doing this stuff together. Will said this morning, "Lets go plant some more stuff!"
