Vegetables, A Vow Renewal, A Baptism, and A Birthday Party = How We Celebrate Cinco de Mayo

Is that a crazy blog title or what?  Well, that is exactly what we did over the Cinco de Mayo weekend.  One month after we planted our vegetable garden we picked the first cucumbers and tomatoes!  We were all pretty excited and let me tell you, they were tasty.  Since then we've gotten a lot more tomatoes and a few more cucumbers.  I will have to do another post with pictures of the garden now -- it is huge and taking over our backyard (well, it is taking over the back corner of our yard anyway).

We spent the weekend with the Horton family to celebrate 3 very special events.  First, my sister in law and brother in law renewed their vows...how sweet is that?  They had just celebrated their 10 year wedding anniversary and I told Luke we need to start planning our vow renewal now.  Ha, just joking...kind of.  I loved witnessing this milestone in their lives and we were so happy to be there to celebrate with them!

That same afternoon our youngest niece Jillian was baptized by Daddy Jay.  She is the sweetest little girl and when she and Colin are together they are double trouble for sure.  She is a blessing to our family and I can't wait to see what God has in store for her. 

The rest of that same weekend was spent celebrating Honey's birthday (Luke's mom).  We had the best time playing outside and just hanging out all together.  The cousins were exhausted at the end of the day.

I can't go without posting a picture of all the yummy food that Sharon and Angie made for the vow renewal...it was so good!  We pretty much spent the entire day eating between the vow renewal and Honey's birthday dinner (we had bbq ribs which I sadly did not get a picture of).  Fun times!