Our Backyard Vegetable Garden

Spring marks the beginning of one of the highlights of our family life--the planting of our backyard vegetable garden.  We get catalogs all winter and fantasize about what we will put in the garden come spring.  Now that spring is officially here we have planted our garden for the second year.  

As usual I planted the staples.  My staples are Better Boy Tomatoes, Roma Tomatoes, Jalapeno Peppers, Zucchini Squash, Crookneck Squash, and Green Onions.  Butternut Squash and English Peas are new this year, due to needing these vegetables to make some of Emma's baby food.

Avery is already keeping an eye out for those rabbits.

Evicting Peter Rabbit

As a child, you probably sympathized with the title character in Beatrix Potter’s children’s story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. But when rabbits are ravaging your peas, Mr. McGregor–the mean old farmer who chased Peter–might suddenly seem more like a sympathetic 

anti-hero than a villain. 

Thought I'd share some of the bunnies that are visiting our garden.

  

"Isn't he cute" might be an expression you use watching Peter Rabbit hop about, unless you're a gardener and they're enjoying your plants, in the food sense.  

We're Expecting!

We are thrilled to announce 

that we are expecting our first baby 

on June 4, 2012!

Most of you already know of this news, but for those of you that don't SURPRISE!!

Christmas 2011 brought much excitement--we found out the sex of our baby! We surprised the first time grandparents with a cake that would reveal the sex of our baby.  

Both families thought it was a boy, but....

It's a GIRL!!  

Emma Gunter Copeland  

I am extremely close to my grandmother and thrilled that our baby girl 

will share her name!  (my grandmothers name is Emma and her maiden name was Gunter)