Our Rez Garden!

Our church has a gardening program and we were fortunate enough to be apart of. It was so beautiful to see the selfless help we received.  The following pictures show you the progression of our very first Rez Garden!

 We had loads and loads (and still do!) of gravel in our yard. 

 The first thing we did was borrow the tiller from the church.  This kind brother is showing Jon how to use the tiller. 

 My wonderful friend Angilina took care of Clara. This is her daughter- Clara luvs her and misses her!

Here is a good pic of the inside of our 2 bedroom/1 bath home. 

 Here I am hauling rocks out of our garden! 

 Clara watching mama at work!

 I neeeed water!

 Tilling our earth

 We had to call the elders to help us remove our neighbors satellite. The people who lived here before us allowed them to use the yard to put their satellite. It was cement folks! Luckily 2 elders who live in a city with a population of 50 and 100 were here to help!

If you look at a map this is where I live. 

More tilling!

 My sweet friend Angilina feeding my bebe!

 We also had the nicest Missionary couple to help us. We layed manure and sawdust.

 My cheering fan!

 We had more blocks of cement in our yard :( 

Don't worry, I had a ton of waterbottles, doughnuts, breakfast burritos, orange juice and pizza. I like to spoil my helpers!

 This is some of the gravel we pulled from out of our yard. 

 Our Apple Tree :)

 I also decided to plant a raised vegetable bed. Lettuce needs shade and this was the perfect spot. 

I planted this the day before I left to Florida for a month!

 Before

Potato

 Onions

 Potato after a month

My corn

 For a while my vegetable bed looked dead. But.....

 My growing corn

 Look at my corn now!

 I love our mini corn field! I get compliments all the time. It's truly an amazing garden and I am so thankful to my Church for all of their help and free supplies :)

 The pumpkin plant is growing SO much! We have eaten lettuce and basil so far. 

Clara Is Moving!

Last night, 8/13/2012, Jon and I put together Clara's new house!  I saw it in Orlando for 14 bucks and I couldn't pass it up (although shipping was 10 bucks!).  I had a very hard day on Monday, as in I was feeling so down.  I said a very sincere prayer to my Heavenly Father.  I couldn't do this alone.  So after I hugged my dear, loyal husband, I decided it was time we built Clara a new house!

Enjoy the pics:

 Jon peeking through Clara's window!

 Clara peeking through her new window!

 Clara walks out of her new home holding a green envelope. I was like, what IS THAT?! After closer inspection: 

 A letter from daddy! 

This seriously melted my heart! I love you daddy Jon!!

Overwhelmed!

It's been an incredible opportunity to be a mother. Part of me still questions why it took so long for my ultimate dream to come true. I was ready, I got pregnant, then I wasn't. I tried again and my hopes were up and then I wasn't. I graduated, I started working and I was ok even though almost every night I would lay in bed crying. Crying to my God and wondering what His plan was for me. And then, just when I thought this was going to be an excruciatingly long journey, I got pregnant with baby Clara. I am so happy to have her but lately I've been feeling overwhelmed. When these thoughts start to creep in I tend to go back to the beginning. I was ready, I got pregnant, then I wasn't.... I guess I jut think that why couldn't I had the chance to be a mother earlier on. Why did it have to be now? I also think that if it had been earlier, then I would have been extremely happy. Not to say that I'm not right now, it's just that it's harder right now. I'm away from my family and relying on the kindness of strangers for relief. The situation is much harder today than it would have been 8 years ago. God made it harder for me. But why?