Garden planting time!

The garden and flower beds are planted! It doesn't look like much now, but I'm always amazed when I compare spring pics to end-of-summer pics and see the miracle of growth that happens over the season.

Flowers and herb bed (to the right of the trellis)

I laid a new stone path this year.

The garden area. Green peppers, tomatoes, green beans, watermelon, pumpkin, cantaloupe, cucumber, lettuce, onions, spinach. The green plant off to the right is garlic.

Cardinal family

We discovered a nest of baby cardinals in our rhododendron bush right outside our living room window. We welcome more cardinals and hope they make it because they are one of the nicest birds to watch.

Here's papa cardinal keeping watch nearby.

Graduation Day!

Phew, it's been busy around here. Sorry for the lack of postings! No wonder I don't have any new comments. :-)
Trevin is out of preschool for the summer and had his preschool spring program and graduation on May 6th. What a hoot! They did a good job singing and they all got their certificates, and other than that it was nothing short of chaos! :-) The kids were cute.

Here is Logan cheering on Brother!

All lined up to go up to the stage.

Ms. Amy handing out the certificates.

The proud graduate! :-)

Time to relax!

Yeah right! How do you relax in a hammock with 2 squirming little boys? :-)

Happy Birthday to Trevin!

So we did a rocket theme this year! I tried my hand at a rocket cake, and it didn't turn out too bad. After cake and ice cream, we headed to the park and launched the rockets that Trevin and Daddy have been so patiently waiting to launch. They were a success! It was so fun to watch them shoot up so high and then slowly float back down. Luckily the wind had died down, so we were able to safely recover the rocket each time. The kids had a blast...and so did the adults!

The launch pad crew.

Back on the ground.

Trevin and his buddies!

5...4...3...2...1...Blast off!

Trip to the zoo!

Trevin's preschool had a trip to the zoo today and Mom and Logan got to go along. The boys had on their animal shirts, so we had to take pictures next to their animal. The weather was great and we had a yummy picnic lunch at the end. Thanks to the Parks & Rec. crew!

In the rainforest...

Mr. Bear snoozing

Who let these monkeys out?


This ape was just sitting there - watching us! :-)

Little Guys Escapades

Well as you may have noticed, things have been a little quiet on our blog. Our computer crashed a couple weeks ago, so we've been waiting for it to get fixed. Luckily it just needed a new hard drive which was promptly ordered. Corey was even able to save all the files on the old hard drive. Thank goodness! I would have bawled if I had lost the pictures that were on it. They were just Jan. till now, but still! Must have back-up in place!
Well, here are a few pics to catch up. More to come!


Making room in the pantry for a little boy.

Enjoying a snack out on the deck.

Mr. Scooter man.

Man, we love this warm weather!