The Overstreets have a "Garden in a Bucket"

On Thursday, Trent and Ella helped me plant cucumbers, peppers, and squash in a set of buckets. We also planted watermelons and pumpkins in the corner of our backyard! We will see how it goes. I will try to update often to let you know the progress our our vegetable patch.

I was amazed at how quickly things started spouting! The packet said 7-10 days for most of the seeds but the cucumbers sprouted on Tuesday and the sqush sprouted today.

The squash sprouts are hard to see...there's one right under the nameplate and one down near the bottom left hand corner (it looks like a bigger white rock).

Ella HATES Windy Days!

Ella's dislike of windy days ranks #2 on her "Things I Hate" list...directly under #1-any animals within a 20 foot radius of her body and directly above #3-being told 'No'. I went to wake her from nap this afternoon and found this...

Just too cute! I had to snap a picture to share. I'm pretty sure this is how she slept through her entire nap.

Trent Sings in Church

Today Trent sang a cute solo in church as part of a piece that the Children's Choir performed. This video picks up in the middle of the song...Lindsey S. sang the first verse and Trent sang the second verse.

Christmas Parade 2008

This year our church decided to participate in a local Christmas parade. It was absolutely FREEZING but we had a wonderful time and can't wait to do it again next year!

Getting ready at the beginning of the parade route to start!

Ella and her best friend Kayleen from church.

Trent and Ella Enjoy Their Christmas Presents!

For Christmas, both kids got new bikes. Trent was ready to upgrade to an ADULT SMALL bike. Those legs may look just a bit to short for this bike now, but I guarantee that by this spring we will probably need to look at raising the seat. It's unbelievable how big he has gotten!

Ella wanted a "Big Girl" bike. Not a bike with 3 wheels...a bike that has 2 big wheels. I'm wondering how long it will be before she's asking us to take off those training wheels?!?!?

Gingerbread Houses in January

Building Gingerbread Houses has become a yearly event with the Wilson family for us. However, both families are so busy around Christmas that we don't get a chance to do them until sometime after the holidays. Last year we weren't able to get together until MARCH! This year we were able to get together within the first week of January. Here are a few pictures of the process.

Tubing in February

We went to West Virginia with some friends to "tube" for the first time. It was freezing cold but luckily we had all our good snow gear to keep us warm.

Trent and our friend Matt play around in the parking lot before we go inside the tubing park.

Ella and her best friend Kayleen from church.