Torgesen Family Times

New garden raised beds

The Torgesen plants are going to have it so good this year! Raised beds with lots of room to grow, nice soil and we will be eating good this summer!

We are planning peas, green beans, beets, carrots, radishes, kale, spinach, salad greens, chard, herbs, zucchini, and of course tomatoes! I might have forgot some plants, they’ll be a surprise I guess!

Right now there are just some little baby plants all sprouting up in the moist cool spring air (and I do mean cool!). After last Spring’s cool and drenchingly wet season, I just couldn’t imagine a cool Spring again. But, that is what we seem to have with us this year. We can have clear plastic over the white pipe to make some mini-green houses.

And the happiest place for the peas is right up against the wall with some netting to climb their tendrils up. I can just taste the sweet crunch of a sugar snap pea right now. Chomp!

It will be fun to see how these gardens grow this year – another few months and these will be full of big plants!

Silhouettes

We had an opportunity to get the kids silhouettes done recently. The price was right and the timing worked out perfectly, it was arranged through Alex’s preschool. It was an amazing process to watch. The silhouette artist put a small folded paper together (so there would be both left and right facing) and just had the kids sit against a white background. She had a DVD player set up so they could watch something and it like - - - 2-3 minutes she had cut out the silhouette! It was amazing to watch and see how wonderful they turned out! These will be cherished pieces of art in our house.

She captured all the glorious curls and those distinctive features.

And those long eyelashes again!

Happy Birthday Sara!

Today my little Sara is one.

How does time fly by so fast?

Some of the days have gone by so slow, but the year has flown by. I remember her birth-day very well and remember how wonderful it was to hold her in my arms. I can’t imagine a more wonderful beautiful baby girl.

She is walking now, has beautiful red hair with small curls in the back. She loves strawberries and yogurt. She eats just about anything we put in front of her! She has a new hobby of climbing on everything and taking things out of drawers. She’s wearing 18mo-2T clothing and is still so tall (stats from 12mo appointment coming in a few weeks). She just is getting another tooth (7 total now). She is having more opinions lately about all sorts of things. When she doesn’t want to be picked up, or when she does, for instance. She loves people watching and is so curious to just look at everyone around her. She is very happy most of the time and enjoys being with me wherever I go on the weekends. Although, she is still very much in a Mommy/Daddy/Nanny mood, but getting more and more open to other people (grandmas especially) every day.

We have been celebrating her upcoming birthday for a while now. At the Oregon Coast, we had a mini-birthday party (Alex too!) with family and enjoyed cupcakes and presents.

She got some hair bands and a musical instrument.

We went out to dinner on Saturday night (Taco Del Mar since we are in the “blackout phase” of going to a sit down restaurant), played at the park and had cupcakes again! I realized a while ago that we haven’t taken her to the park yet. I took her last summer when she was a little baby in the carrier, but not as a toddler that can play too! So, we just had to stop at the park and push her in the swings, especially since it was her birthday!