Things are growing here at the Gray's!

OK, I don't want to say this and jinx myself, but somehow we must have figured out how to grow things here in the desert! It's taken us almost 5 years but we've done it! (Now that I've said this, everything is probably going to start dying!)

So this year, I decided to expand my horizons and plant some veggies in our little planter box Aaron built for me a couple years ago. I used to just do flowers in it. The Bedonts did a little salsa garden in their yard and had some extra red onions, so we took those and I decided to add some more to it to do a salsa garden of our own. With this pregnancy, I have been eating chips and salsa like a mad woman. Maybe our little Bambino is part Mexican! :) Anyway, they won't be fully grown until the summer time so I can't enjoy them now, but it's doing so well and I'm very pleased with myself!

Here's what it is in case you're curious. Starting closest to us: cilantro, the onion sprouts, the larger leafy ones on the right are anaheim chilies and the smaller ones on the left are jalapenos, and in the back corner I did some zucchini. I wasn't going to attempt to grow tomatoes so those I will just have to get from the farmer's market to make our salsa.

I also got a big surprise when I was out watering this morning. I looked at our dwarf lemon tree (aka bush) and look what I saw:

The previous owners of our house planted this tree in the yard and we actually moved it twice since we have lived here. Aaron was pretty sure it was going to die both of those times (it was a lot smaller then) but miraculously it survived! And now it is thriving. We got big, sweet smelling blossoms this year and now after the blossoms fell off we got these little baby lemons! There's actually a lot of them on the tree. Is it weird that I almost jumped up and down with excitement when I saw these?

And finally, the other thing that is growing here at the Gray's:

A kind of profile shot of our second boy! He was not very cooperative so this wasn't a total profile shot but whatever. This is, of course, the most exciting of all of these things! So far everything is growing well and in another couple weeks I'll have a follow up to check on everything they couldn't quite see as well as they would like. Yay!