Conor built us a little square foot garden on our patio. We have a pretty big patio and it gets a lot of sun in the summertime so I'm hoping we'll have some success. I don't have much of a green thumb, but both my mother and my granny can make things grow, so hopefully, with lots of practice, I'll be able to make things grow too. We're all excited about the garden. However, it sure is taking a long time to get things planted. We want to do it with the girls, but doing things with the girls makes everything take forever to complete. So slowly, slowly we'll get our garden planted. Fortunately for us we have a looooong growth season. Hoping to fit in two summer crops before we start planting our winter veggies. 

PS: if you're interested in square foot gardening, I found this website really helpful. It gave me enough confidence to be decisive at Lowes and not be on the verge of tears. 

Having kids means there will be mess and disorganization. So to combat that, I made some divided baskets from Noodlehead. We recenly moved our toy kitchen into the real kitchen and the result was toy kitchen supplies all over my kitchen floor. These have been a great solution for that. I store the baskets on the rolling cart behind the kitchen. I made two for the kitchen out of linen and I used kona cotton to line them.

I made two more out of moustache fabric (couldn't resist). I plan on keeping one on our kids' table in the living room, mostly likely for duplo. And I'm not sure what I'll do about the second one. I might gift it... haven't decided. 

I really like these baskets. They were fairly simple to sew up. They required a lot of cutting though. I had to cut out lining, exterior fabric, interfeacing and fusible fleece. If I make these again, which I probably will, I'll try to use home dec weight fabric and I won't use fusible fleece. It was a pain to fuse so many things to linen because it has a loose weave. And the linen I ordered came horribly wrinkled so pressing it was a nightmare. And even with interfacign and fusible fleece, the linen is floppy. But, I like the look. I sewed a line down the middle of the exterior pocket on the moustache basket and I'm glad I did. It makes the pocket more stable.

If you're interested in making these, you'll need a half yard for the interior and a half yard for the exterior. If you want an exterior pocket, you'll need a little more than a half yard of each. Be prepared to cut and press a lot! But there's good news, they sew up fairly quickly. I was able to sew two in 1.5-2 hours (that doesn't include cutting and fusing). 

After we had such a lovely time walking Ranchos San Antonio on my birthday, we decided to take the kids. I'm trying to be more nature-minded and I want my family to go on nature walks together more often. Well, turns out, with children we covered a lot less ground and had a lot less adult conversation. Holly's legs hurt and she was hyper-focused on the pizza we were planning to eat for supper. In the end we covered about a mile. I'd say improvement is needed. But it's a start!

Another thing, taking pictures of these kiddos can be painful! So awkward. Sorry babies!

Conor exercises almost every single morning with the girls watching him (and Holly sometimes cheering him on). This example has rubbed off on them and they love hanging from the chin-up bar. Cracks me up! Conor lets them hang until they fall, or he helps them do a pull-up (or is it a chin-up? I don't know, I can't do either!). Adorable. 

My example has rubbed off too. The other day, Holly says to me, "oh man! We didn't go to the gym today!" 

These three are my entire world. The sun rises and sets on them. 

I'm really young. I married Conor at 18. Sometimes I feel a little self-conscious of my age, especially here in California. But, I wouldn't trade it for anything. When it all boils down, I'm so grateful that I found true love so much sooner than average and I'm so grateful that I get to have children. I wouldn't trade my life for anything. Happy Friday!