Dauphin, Wilco, Katie, and Vegetable Garden

Hey thanks for reading our blog. Sorry about the lack of updates lately. We’ve had a delightful March here in Jackson.

We went back to Dauphin Island on the Alabama coast for three days to celebrate my 25th birthday. We had a lot of fun golfing, running on the beach, jumping off stuff, and playing with a big blue balloon. (See the short story below)



We also did an art project on the beach with flowers that we saw blooming all over the island. Emily collected several bags full of flowers all over the golf coarse as I sank numerous birdies, pars, and quad bogies.






After Dauphin we headed north to Meridian Mississippi to catch one of the greatest rock bands in this here country, Wilco. Normally I don’t think Wilco would play a small town like meridian but one of the band members was a local born and raised so we got lucky. It was a great night of music not soon to be forgotten.




When we arrived back home to Jackson we enjoyed a week with a special guest from Portland. Emily’s good friend Katie came to visit and we had a great time hosting her and showing her around the area. On the Sunday that she was here we had the kids who come to church with us over for lunch.






Last week we began work on our new project with the kids, the vegetable garden! We worked throughout the week on clearing our small plot of land in John Perkins back yard of grass and weeds. Yesterday we had our final tilling and weeding day before we begin to plant seeds this week. The kids are loving the garden. They love dirt and mud. Most have never had the chance to use tools like shovels and rakes much less the roto tiller.

We had 10 to 12 kids that came to church with us yesterday. They all came over for lunch filling up our big dinning room table. Half of the children worked with Emily on preparing the meal and the other half worked with me on clean-up.




After lunch we hit the garden. We are really excited about the kids working and maintaining their own garden. When we harvest we will give the crops to the children to take home and share with their family. Its great to see Emily’s vision becoming a reality and to see the kids so enthusiastic about it. We’ll keep you updated on our garden project progress.





This week we have Emily’s parents and Grandma coming out for a visit and we are very excited to have them here.
Come see us!