Our friends Amber and Alan and their kids, Kyla and Isabelle, came for a short visit this morning. They live in Calgary and are in town for the weekend. I know Amber from high school and she was a bridesmaid at our wedding.

Their daughter Isabelle is not quite 2 yet, and second daughter Kyla was born a mere week and bit after Jackson. During our visit I think Ian and I saw a flash forward to the future...having a baby and toddler sure looks busy! And having 3 together...whew, it was crazy!! But both Alan and Amber look great...so either they were faking it really well for us, or they have it under control!

Anyway, it was really neat to see Kyla and Jackson together...she's still so tiny (or feels like it compared to Jackson's 10lb+ girth!!).


On a completely non-baby related note...here is a picture of our garden and new back fence. Our new neighbors (behind us) decided to replace their entire fence...this one is much more private than we had before...and its 7 1/2 feet tall!! We still have to stain it...I say 'we' but I can only reach the bottom part...so maybe I'll get out of doing it altogether (we just stained the rest of the fence 2 summers ago...it took forever...ugh...I'm not looking forward to doing any more any time soon).

Our garden has a little fence and gate around it to keep the dog out. Ian just put the seeds in 2 weeks ago - we aren't organized enough to start them indoors then transplant them...seems like too much work. We actually got radishes sprouting about 6 days after we planted them. (the little row of green you can see in the picture is the radish row)..we had really good success with radishes last year as well...too bad I don't like radishes:( We also noticed today that some squash and peas have started to grow...and we think leeks and green onions - but it might be weeds, so we have to wait and see:)