Green Glorious Green

Thanks to many, many, many, hours of hard work in the yard by Tyler our yard is full of green glorious green grass. Tyler spent last week getting the yard ready and Saturday morning the pallets of Sod were delivered. We hired a young man from our ward to come help and together, with the occassional help of Abigail, they got the yard completed by early afternoon. Our yard is small, but it makes all the difference to look out the windows and see such green green grass.

Oh Baby

We are thrilled to share the news that we are expecting a new addition to join our family come mid-November.

Indeed, we have much to be thankful for.

A Wish to Grow

April showers bring May (and June) flowers.....and vegetables. My #1 goal for the summer is to can tomatoes--hopefully from my garden. In this pursuit, we have planted 13 tomato plants of 3 varieties. Bring on the tomatoes I say! (I am happy to report that 7 tomatoes have already been spotted). We also planted 5 pepper plants, 1 cucumber plant, and 2 basil plants. Not too much variety overall in the vegetable department--but we have plans to expand next year.

Abigail helping her Daddy build the garden boxes.
We have two large pots filled with these Zinnias. I'm in love.

As crazy as it sounds, doing my dishes and looking out my window to these flower boxes---somehow makes doing dishes a bit easier (usually).

I love beginning my day by checking on our garden. Each morning Abigail and I go outside and take a look to see what has been happening while we were sleeping. Abigail loves to help water the vegetables, flower pots, and hanging baskets.

The first year we were here in Georgia we planted Petunias. Within a week they were all gone and the bunny we thought was so cute became our enemy. This year, we dare that bunny to get to these Petunias.

p.s. Ignore the dead grass. It is purposely dry, dead, and ugly--sod coming soon with pictures to follow.