heatwave!

dude, we are in the middle of a killah heatwave right now! temps have been hovering around 90 for the past three days. the high temps, in combination with the humidity, have been a bit overwhelming. none of us slept very well last night, on account of the heat. oh, and boopers has just cut tooth # 6...they are coming at rapid fire speed these days!

in spite of the hot weather, we had a productive gardening weekend. we got all of our veggies planted, and also some flowers. yippee! there is only one small section of the garden that hasn't been planted. in that space i am hoping to direct sow some chard, and maybe some arugula or possibly beets. i am pretty impressed with the number of plants we've been able to squeeze into our garden. so far we have:

10 tomato plants, a mixture of celebrities, cherries, and some variety called "jet star"
3 pepper plants, of the sweet variety
6 zucchini plants
5 cucumber plants
4 broccoli plants
10 basil plants
two massive clumps of chives
one italian parsley plant
one row of mixed lettuce greens

i really must take a picture of it...it looks so neat and tidy! we'll see what it looks like when everything is full grown...it might be a bit of a jungle!

it is going to a very busy week...sunday is aubrey's FIRST BIRTHDAY! YIPPEE YAHOOEEE! we are planning to celebrate with a cookout in the back yard, complete with ladybug ice cream cake. yum! my family is coming up to join us, and some friends will be helping us celebrate as well. anyhoo, this week - in addition to all of the cleaning i must accomplish - i am going to be busy making cupcakes and salads for the party. pete is going to construct the ice cream cake, which i will decorate. (gotta put my art degree to use somehow, eh?) oh yes. and wrapping prezzies.

i realize that i have been extremely lax on posting pictures. here's the thing: my slow little laptop has pretty much zero hard drive space, so downloading pictures has been a bit of a chore. i promise i will do so soon soon soon!