lisa and daniel gooden

March 31 - 17 days

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Lettuce Blend

Red Corn
Herbs

March 22 - 8 days

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Red corn!!!
Zucchini!
Oregano starting to peek out

March 20 - 6 days

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Johnny's Red Corn starting to pop up (his favorite)

March 19 - 5 days

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Spinach and lettuce coming up.
No herbs yet.

Our Vegetable Garden

2011-03-22T20:58:00.002-05:00

We've started a few seeds in the basement for our vegetable garden this summer. We planted everything March 14.

Keeping up

2010-01-20T20:22:00.002-06:00

Since most of what this blog is for is sharing photos, and I find it tiresome the time it takes to upload photos, I recently began experimenting with other photo sharing places. Snapdish is fine, but you have to have an account to see them, I think. I like Flickr quite a bit. Easy to upload and easy to order prints. A link for all your friends. I uploaded quite a few photos from the summer and some more recent photos and then discovered that you cannot display all your photos with only a free account. So I am back to the beginning. I may decide to pay for an account and keep up only on Flickr, which I find very easy to use, or I may try and get back to blogging and hope someday uploading will be faster and easier. Or if anyone knows something I do not and there is a setting I have not selected to make uploading easier, please let me know! In the meantime, you may now view more photos here at our photostream. For those of you counting, we now have photos spread over a variety places that are listed on the side bar. Enjoy.

July fun

2009-07-25T22:15:00.000-05:00

Friday nights at Gilham Park.

Reading together, my three fellas.

I said, "Smile Sam!"

Visiting with Meme and Papa in Napoleon, MO

2009-07-06T21:47:00.000-05:00

Johnny tried hard to catch the new goose at Meme and Papa's!

My Birthday at Bass Pro

2009-07-05T22:05:00.000-05:00

I wanted to eat out at a place that overlooked the water. It just happens this place also has a shootin' range, giant catfish in an aquarium and delicious seafood to boot. Ta da - Bass Pro Shop!

Block Party!

2009-07-04T21:15:00.002-05:00

Daniel organized a block party for the 4th of July. Lots of neighbors came, as well as Aunties Holly and Emily though they technically live in the next block over.

Johnny loved riding his tricycle all around in the street.
Loads of fun for everyone!

watching the fireworks.

BBQ at Mike & Cary's

2009-07-03T21:09:00.001-05:00

Our former next-door neighbors threw a BBQ at their new house. My parents were in town and we brought the whole family over for some summer cook out fun.

Johnny is quite the snuggler.
Playing washers with Grandma.

Visiting with Grandma and Grandpa

2009-07-03T20:45:00.000-05:00

My parents visited from Indianapolis in July, they met Sam for the first time and celebrated the 4th of July and my birthday with us.

Making a placemat with Grandma.

Johnny showing off his Federer tennis racket. He got to go play tennis with Grandpa and Daddy.

Playing at the park by our house.

Summer garden

2009-07-02T20:40:00.001-05:00

Our summer together

2009-07-01T22:46:00.004-05:00

I cannot describe the supreme joy I have felt being home this summer with my boys - all three of them now. Pictures below are from the first few weeks of our new family of four.

soaking up the sun.
blue light blanket for jaundice.
brothers!
in the batman tent on the camo sleeping bag.
Headed out for dinner at Minksy's for Sam's 1-week birthday.living room haircut.can you spot Johnny in the mess?
waiting for customers during the neighborhood garage sale.little old man.
punk rock mohawk baby.lazy pajama morning.
"I'm holding his hand, mama!"Paola, KS
Visiting with the Snouffer's.

Last day of my sister Amy's visit.

Samuel Mitchell Gooden

2009-05-29T22:33:00.002-05:00

Well, it turns out I did not have to wait very long after all. Samuel Mitchell Gooden was born May 28, 2009 at 11:42 PM. I worked late Thursday evening and was surprised with consistent contractions around 6-7 PM. After coming home, convincing myself this was real labor, and then getting Johnny off to his uncle's for the night, we headed to the hospital and a little over an hour later we had a baby! He is a sight to behold.

Waiting for baby

2009-05-24T22:25:00.001-05:00

Lately I've just been too tired to blog. Daniel is hard at work finishing our new bedroom, so we will have enough room for ourselves and the baby in the bassinet in the room. We're currently holed up in the room that will someday be the baby's, which is tiny holding a full sized bed, Daniel's desk, bookshelves, etc. It's hard to imagine fitting the baby in there, too. But happily, Daniel is nearing the end of the job and hopefully Wednesday or Thursday of next week we can start moving in furniture. Baby is nearing his due date as well, next Saturday, May 30!

We've been shopping a lot, getting last minute things we need for the baby. During a trip to Target this morning with Johnny, we bought the tiniest size 1 diapers. We also got Johnny a new swim suit for summer, which is darling. He is super excited about the summer and going to the "water park" spraygrounds.

The baby, who we are pretty sure will be named Samuel Mitchell, is due in less than a week. At the last midwife's appointment, everything was healthy, but the baby hadn't dropped yet. So we'll just have to wait and see when Sam will make his appearance.

BBQ at Dean and Laurel's

2009-05-17T21:51:00.002-05:00

Daniel's parents were gracious enough to host a couple of families from our neighborhood playgroup out at their house for a BBQ. The dads all left early in the morning and rode their bikes out and the moms and children drove out in a caravan later for lunch. Between our family, the Nodlands and the McDaniels, there were 6 children running around and 2 babies on the way. We all had a fun afternoon together.

Mama and Johnny

2009-05-13T22:09:00.000-05:00

Mother's Day as we head out for a nice breakfast.

37 weeks pregnant.

Checking out the new camera with Daddy.

Tea Party at Liberty Memorial

2009-04-18T21:47:00.001-05:00

Easter Fun

2009-04-15T21:21:00.003-05:00

Gilham Park Easter Egg Hunt and Festivities

Dying Easter Eggs at home.

Spring seedlings

2009-03-31T21:34:00.005-05:00

We've started our basement gardening. Here Johnny is helps Daniel water the newly planted seeds with the sprayer. Daniel joined a community gardening co-op and got all kinds of super-cheap supplies and seeds.

New room for Johnny!

2009-03-31T21:21:00.004-05:00

We moved Johnny into his new room this week! It's beautiful and green and he's even got a new (huge!) twin sized bed.

Lego Train Depot

2009-03-12T22:16:00.004-05:00

Close-up by Johnny.

March Snowstorm

2009-03-12T22:15:00.003-05:00

All bundled up.

Tiny footprints.

Backyard sledding.

Icicles!

February Fun

2009-02-26T21:41:00.009-06:00

A little light reading with breakfast. (it's the insert from the gas bill)

Train photography by Johnny.

Somersaults off the sofa!

Happy Valentine's Day

2009-02-26T21:35:00.004-06:00

Johnny smells a red carnation he and Daddy bought for me for Valentine's Day.

Photo by Johnny

men with facial hair

2009-02-10T23:05:00.002-06:00

Johnny helps Daniel shave his winter beard.

Clementine the bear

2009-02-09T23:14:00.000-06:00

a Christmas present from Auntie Holly

Baby bump #2 - 22 weeks

2009-01-31T23:12:00.000-06:00

Bathtime fun for Johnny and mama!

2009-01-11T23:00:00.002-06:00