Holland Family Portrait

Yesterday was so busy! We had family portraits taken and Winifred's family came over for dinner

It was crazy. June and Honey were having a horrible time finding clothes, but thankfully found something my mom thought was "portrait appropriate". 

But still took just long enough to make us late, which made my mom quite annoyed. We still made it just before they canceled our appointment. 

And the rest was pretty painless. 

It's definitely not the worst Holland Family portrait experience I've ever had. 

And this was the first year that Juniper was in our family portrait! 

I never really explained that Juniper lives with us. She's been Honeys best friend for years and this January we adopted her! 

And she's nothing short of family. 

New friend

Today, when Penelope came over after school, she brought over a friend!

Her name is Winifred and she just moved to Dollville from Colorado! 

Today was her first day at school in Texas! 

She lives right next door! And she loves to garden too!

She loves nature and yoga! Just like me! She's also a Buddhist- so I'll get to learn more about her religion! 

I can already tell were all gonna be great friends! 

They stayed over for a while and helped me garden, and we all talked. 

I learned her favorite color is green, but she also really loves orange. Her favorite animal is an elephant, She says it's her spirit animal!

Her dad came over to meet my parents, and we made plans to have dinner together Friday!

She's so great and I can't wait to become close friends!

Friendship Bracelets

Penelope and I are making friendship bracelets today, and I thought I'd show you the process!

You will need thread a little longer than one arms length. 

You will need 6 pieces of string, you can use as many colors as you would like but we decided to use three of our favorite colors and make our bracelets different colors! 

Fold the thread in half and tie a knot near the end, making a loop. 

Separate the colors into three groups, the begin to braid. 

Start by putting the right string over the middle

And then the left over the middle strand. 

Repeat until enough is braided to wrap around your wrist once. 

Tie a knot at the end, 

And then tie them to your wrist!  

Pepper Planting.

The pepper plants are getting big! 

So I decided it would be ok to put them outside  

I put them in one of the rows of my garden plot,

All planted!

So I don't forget which plants these are when we have more stuff growing. 

lulu was helping me out!  

I also found this tiny little sprout that I'm gonna try and get to grow in a pot. 

Back home C: 

And while I'm giving you guys garden updates...

I also planted some more watermelon seeds to sprout! 

Since mine is getting sooo big! 

Growth already! 

Tiny Greenhouse

While I was at Walmart the other day I found this super cute mini greenhouse!

Add the Miracle grow 

Water 

Add seed 

Cover with soil

Put on the lid 

Add put it somewhere it can get light! 

Marigolds

We got some marigold seeds to plant around our garden to keep bugs off of our plants! 

I'm going to start them inside so they can sprout and then move them out to their permanent home outdoors! 

I'm gonna start them in an egg carton! 

I started by putting holes in the bottom so the water wouldn't drown the roots. 

I also cut off the lid 

Then I filled it with soil! 

Add the seeds, give it some water, and put it in the sunlight! 

Once these are growing and out around the garden they'll keep bugs away from our vegetables! 

I also thought id show you guys some more progress on my plants!! 

The watermelon sprouts are doing great! 

And so are the flowers. I also have some succulent trimmings I'm trying to get to root! 

The sweet pea is getting huge!

And all the succulents are doing good. 

The sunflowers are getting so tall!

Even though the dog ate the leaves off one of them :( 

And the peppers are growing fast!

I'm so excited to move these and start planting outdoors!