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My flower gardens are blooming so amazingly that I thought I’d just take you on a visual tour of my gardens for this update!  I hope you enjoy!

An Update

The last two weeks have gone so fast!  It’s been incredibly hot and humid here in Iowa.  The plus is that my flowers thrive.  The downside is it takes a lot of watering, but when they reward me with such blooms, it’s worth it!  As far as our lives, work has been busy for both T & I.  M is in the middle of a crazy baseball season, and R is working a lot!  We keep busy somehow, even when the calendar doesn’t have a lot written on it!

Foxglove blooming in the wild beds!

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Did anyone else grow up with your parents making you eat your veggies?!  Do you make your kids eat their veggies?  I’ve compiled this vegetable recipe round-up of amazing veggie recipes to help you out!

Eating Your Veggies

I remember when I was growing up, my parents always had vegetables at every meal.  We had the staples of green beans, corn (which I now know really isn’t a vegetable), and carrots!  I HATE cooked carrots.  When I was little, my  mom would put carrots in with the potatoes and roast on Sundays for dinner after church.  I always had to eat two bites of cooked carrots, it was the rule in our house.  Same with beets, yack!  However, now I love eating veggies and usually can’t get enough of them!  My favorites are broccoli, asparagus, & chopped salads with cabbage and more in them!

Recipe Round-Up

The older I get, the busier I am and I appreciate recipe round-up posts so I can have links to SEVERAL posts all in one place.  Since it’s National Eat Your Veggies day, I thought what better reason than that to create this round-up!  Several of my fellow Iowa bloggers have shared their very best veggie recipes with me to share with you!  There is a big variety and I’m sure you’re bound to find something everyone in your house will love.

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Two weeks has passed already and we’re back for another garden update! I swear the weeks are going faster each year!  The past two weeks here have been surprisingly busy!  School is wrapping up, T is busy in the field, and we just keep moving along!  But, let’s get to what we’re all really here for, the garden update!

The Flower Gardens

Thanks to incredibly sunny and hot weather the past two weeks, my flowers have really taken off, no thanks to all the watering we’re having to do due to lack of rain!  Isn’t that how it is?!  We went from an incredibly wet spring to a very dry summer thus far!  *sigh*  But, anyway…here you go!

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Two weeks has come and gone! I’m not quite sure how, but that means we’re back for a garden update!

The Past 2 Weeks

The past two weeks have been crazy in our house.  M has started baseball practice, T is crazy busy working with #plant18 in full-swing finally!  And R…well, he’s had a couple of amazing weeks!  Track has come to an end finally (as of this past Friday), but not without him clenching the conference championship in the 110 High Hurdles along with earning a place at the state track & field championship!  I’m always proud of both of the boys, but I have to admit that watching him run at the state track championship this past Friday was the icing on the cake!  For me, it’s more about knowing how hard he has worked, how badly he wanted it, and seeing him succeed!  He already has new goals for next year and I love that!  Now, we have a couple “off” weeks before M starts baseball!  He hasn’t played in a couple years, but has been working hard and I can’t wait to watch him play and see how he does!

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Can you believe it’s May 2018 already?  March and April came and went and while I had hoped to get at least one edition of “What I’m Loving Right Now”…well, life!

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I’m so excited to announce a new partnership!  I have recently been invited to join the brand ambassador program of Just Strong Clothing!  As you know, a healthy lifestyle and an active lifestyle is very important to me!  It seemed only right that a relationship with a work-out clothing company would feel natural!

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