Watermelons!!

August is watermelon season for us. Each year Cale's grandad grows a gigantic watermelon and we all go up and watch its progress. The boys love to see the big watermelon!

Grandad and the boys.

At the time of this picture, the watermelon was about 3 feet long. He has not picked it yet and it is still growing! Of course with this run of cooler weather that we have been having it is not growing as much as it was before. Watermelons love HOT weather!

They are attempting to put the watermelon on the scale to see how much it weighs. At this point it weighed 185 pounds. I think grandad is hoping that it will grow to 200 pounds!! That is like 2 of me!! (not really, just wishful thinking!!)

Here is E wanting to see the weight.

Cale and Grandad checking the weight.

After looking at the big watermelon, E had an idea. He was wanting to eat a melon right out of the garden. And he wanted to eat it while we were standing IN the garden! What is a grandparent supposed to do except say...sure!!

E also wanted a yellow watermelon! I think because we normally eat the red ones!

This was his idea of a good night!

The boys love going out to the farm. Notice that I dont have many pictures of L. That is because he spent most of his time playing on the four wheeler. That is also something that we have to do every time we go out to see the great grandparents. Also included is raiding grandmothers chocolate stash, having grandmother read a book or two, playing INSIDE (literally) the toybox, and sitting outside on the porch swing. The boys definitely have a routine when they go to the farm! We always have a good time!! Thank you grandmother and grandad!