The Teche Family wishes you a safe and happy 4th of July! Happy Birthday, America! We will be having a great day! Kellen turns 12 today! Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday that he was born! I know that is not true but hey I still have baby weight left from him to loose. Do you think anyone believes me? I think everyone must!
So from Flag Cat and the Teche Family Have a great day!!!!

Garden Time!

We went over to the garden tonight and man are things are getting big over there! We were able to harvest two kohlrabies. The boys were so excited to be able to harvest more! We ate them with dinner and they were very good. I don't think that I have ever had a better one. YUMMY!Kellen and the kohlrabi that he picked
Baby tomato, if there are more than one is it tomati?
The garden!
Ethan and the kohlrabi that he harvested. He is fanning himself with a leaf
The boys and their kohlrabi
Baby broccoli
Pretty eggplant flower! The picture does not do it justice. It is the prettiest color of light purple that I have ever seen.

Kellen's Birthday Party!

On Friday night Kellen had his 12th birthday party. He had two friends spend the night and we went to a baseball game. At the game the mascot delivered cupcakes to the birthday boy! We had a lot of fun! The baseball cake that I made Kellen
Kellen opening his new cell phone!
At the game setting up his cell phone!
The bat cake that I made to go with the ball. Blogger has decided to put the pictures in any order that it feels like it so that is why this one is here. I carved this out of cake and iced it. I painted the wood type grain on it. I know it kind of looks phallic but all Kellen saw was a bat so I was happy.

Demonstration Day 2011!

In 4-H in order to show anything in the fair the kids have to do a demonstration. They can do this demonstration on anything that they want to. There were demonstrations on how to groom your bunny, how to train your dog, and how to make puppy chow. There was also one on the different pests that can hurt an apple orchard and the things to do to prevent the bugs.

Kellen did his on how to make a paper balloon. He made a poster and showed the people there how to fold the paper. He did very well. He was loud so everyone could hear and he was prepared. Not all the kids were prepared at all. I am so very proud of him! Now he will be able to show at the fair.

Kellen's Cake

I taught a cake decorating class to some of the 4-H kids. They all did a great job and I was so proud of them. Kellen is in the group that took cake decorating and he worked very hard on his cake.I only taught them stars and Kellen went WILD!

His finished cake. It took him forever to do all those stars one at a time. He will be decorating one to take to the fair this year

Clothing Review 2011

The boys were part of the 4-H clothing review. They were judged on how well they sewed their item of clothing. The boys did well. The judge pointed out a few things that need to be fixed before fair. We will make sure that we get them done.

Kellen talking to the judge. They talked about ripping seams. We somehow sewed a seam wrong and had to rip out a LONG seam. She said that every person that sewed has had to rip a few seams.
Kellen won second place for his pants!
All the kids that made something for the review
Ethan, Kellen, and Logan modeling their clothes
For some reason blogger is putting the pictures in any order that they want today so, here is Ethan talking to the judge. Ethan did not get a ribbon as he is a Cloverbud. Next year, if he does this he could earn a ribbon.

Look At These Beauties!

Yummy radishes from my garden! Some were tiny but Jared and I liked them anyways. The boys tried one and decided not to eat them. We are learning so much about square foot gardening this year that we are going to implement next year.