The Mirthful Morgans: Growing is Glorious!

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Growing is Glorious!

I LOVE to garden! There is something about watching plants grow that is pure joy for me. I love planting seeds and waiting in anticipation for them to burst through the soil and start flourishing into beautiful flowers or vegetables or whatever it may be. I think it is a part of me, of who I am, of my character even. Nothing is more rewarding I think, in my opinion, than creating, it's what we're born to do.

These are snapdragons...

Petunia's of course...I always have to have some of these....

so easy to grow, grow quickly, and looks magnificent!

Er, this hopefully will be a Bonsai Tree one day...hasn't even sprouted yet....we'll see...

All from seed....Marigolds, another favorite because it makes me think of my childhood and especially my dear mother who taught me to love gardening in the first place.

BASIL! My garden is not complete without this, I have grown basil every year since first having my own garden when we bought our house in Pennsylvania in 2005. It's one of those, once you have it fresh you can't even go back, kind of herbs. This year will be different of course as most of our stuff has to be in pots because we are renters again, but it will suffice for now.

Hmm...survival of the fittest? They were all seeded at the same time.

Okay, so i definitely did not plant this baby, but it looks like someone is enjoying it anyway!

Makes me think of Alice in Wonderland...

These were a mother's day gift from my dear friend Sara Schutz! So pretty!

Most of my tomatoes are in pots this year. I have three that I put in the ground behind this one in the picture, but five others will be in pots. I am excited that weeding will be easier at least. I plan on canning most of them as spaghetti sauce as we're not huge

raw tomato eaters in this family.

So it's a small garden this year, but at least i get to do something. Each day i go outside and take a look...i notice how they grow and there's just something about it that is really thrilling. Perhaps it's self sufficiency, perhaps the beauty, but i really believe it has a lot to do with helping something live and grow. Simply satisfying!

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All about John & Nicola

Well, John is the extremely handsome red-head, of course, and I'm the little one in front of him! John is a marriage and family therapist and I am a domestic engineer as well as a dental hygienist. We met in June of 2000, were engaged by the very end of September 2000, and were married December 16th 2000. We have four lovely children as you can see below and love life and all that it has brought and taught us! We love to talk, have friends over, cook and eat food, camp, and pretty much do anything as a family.

All About Edy

She is fun-loving and pretty much always wants her way (who doesn't) and 90% of the time it works out well as she's a good girl with righteous desires and is extremely responsible and mature for her age. However that 10% of the time where we actually don't agree on something, she can be a little devil! She is a huge help with Jack as these two are best buds! Jack likewise adores her and she is the only one out of his other siblings that he'll let parent him. Eden is also in the fifth grade and loves to read. She has a passion for horses and all animals really and also loves to cook and bake.

Top 7 Favorite of "The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book"

{Why 7 and not 10...because I haven't found three more I really like the best yet. AND these are in no particular order either.}

1. Remember that life's most treasured moments often come unannounced.
2. Hold puppies, kittens, and babies any time you get the chance.
3. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.
4. Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
5. Watch for the big problems. They disguise big opportunities.
6. Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
7. Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day.

The Duty of Mothers...

The duty of the mother is to watch over her children, and give them their early education, for impressions received in infancy are lasting. You know, yourselves, by experience, that the impressions you have received in the dawn of your mortal existence, bear, to this day, with the greatest weight upon your mind. It is the experience of people generally, that what they imbibe from their mothers in infancy, is the most lasting upon the mind through life... Children have all confidence in their mothers; and if mothers would take proper pains, they can instill into the hearts of their children what they please. You will, no doubt, recollect reading, in the Book of Mormon, of two thousand young men, who were brought up to believe that, if they put their whole trust in God, and served Him, no power would overcome them. You also recollect reading of them going out to fight, and so bold were they, and so mighty their faith, that it was impossible for their enemies to slay them. This power and faith they obtained through the teachings of their mothers.

-Brigham Young