Fruits and Vegetables of Our Labors

We decided to start with a small garden of:
2-4 cherry tomato plants
2 larger tomato plants
1 zucchini plant
2 green peppers
2 cucumbers
2 cantelopes
and 2 watermellons

I think all of that only cost under $10-15.

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So, in roughly 2 1/2 months, our garden has grown from this:

To this:

Click on the picture above to view the whole size.

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We have gotten tons out of that small garden. In four days of not picking cucumbers and zucchini, we ended up with about 8-10 cucumbers and 8-10 zucchini. That adds up to at least 1-2 per day for the last month or so... approximately 40-50 cucumbers and zucchini for $1 or $2. We have made about 10 loaves of zucchini bread. It's awesome.

It is funny how when it is your own, it is a lot of fun.
I actually enjoy picking weeds now...don't tell my mom.

Here are the size of our zucchini after 4 days.

We were sad that we killed one watermelon plant,
but still have some pretty big watermelons from one of the plants.

Massey Family Reunion '09

The kids had a great time camping up at Mt. Timpanogus Cave area in
American Fork Canyon. However, we did run into some bears in our campsite.

Watch the video of the bears we caught in our campsite....

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We also went on a hike at Mt. Timpanogus Caves.
I took an hour and a half (almost 2 hours) to hike up to the caves.
Then an hour inside hiking through the caves.

It was definitely worth it...
but you may want to ask Natali if it was worth it,
since she hiked the whole thing, 2 months after having Quinn.

I think she was EXHAUSTED.

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The next day, we went hiking to Stuart Cascade Falls.

2 miles in and 2 miles out.

8 kids + 4 adults = EXHAUSTION for all of us...



Here are some of the beautiful panaromic shots that
I took with my Canon PowerShot A570.

It was a lot of fun stitching them together with Photoshop.


Click on the pictures themselves to see the full size resolution.

They look a lot better full size...








To see more pictures of our campout, caving,
or hike to Stuart Falls see my web albums below:

Camping

Mt. Timpanogos Caves

Stuart Cascade Falls