Daddy Daughter Camping

Dave took Mckenzie camping two weeks ago (I forgot about the pics because I didn't take them.) It was her first time with just her and her daddy. They had fun and it was surprisingly quiet with my 2year old gone. We missed them. Will actually cried because he missed his sister so much!


There's just something about rocks...kids love'em.


Dirty girl with her rock.
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I thought this was a cute pic.

I'm glad they had fun and I'm glad they're back!

Activity Book Idea

I found this on a blog and thought it was a great idea. An activity dry-erase book where you use page protectors as dry-erase boards. I knew a few teachers who did that when I taught.

Here's the link:

http://www.somewhatsimple.com/2010/04/dry-erase-activity-book.html

Spring Plants

I'm loving the spring weather right now and am able to grow some plants. Hopefully I can keep them alive through the harsh summer sun, but for now, I'm enjoying some gardening.

I got some flowers for the front. The allyssum (small white flowers) should hopefully last through the summer and are doing really well. The geraniums are stalks my neighbor gave me from her geranium bush...yeah, I said bush. It was huge and she said it's been there forever. I'm nursing them along in these small pots until after our house is painted and then want to plant them in front.


Here are the tomato plants in our garden. They've really started growing in the past week and some little tomatoes are coming. The little ones are cherry tomato plants.


Our squash, some onions, but mostly some random zucchini plants that sprung up from last season and I decided to keep.


Our whole vegetable garden.


My rosebushes (although I can't take any credit since they were here when we moved in, even though they hadn't had water for about 6 months!) I learned that you don't cut rosebushes back in the spring.




This bush is getting the most blooms I've ever seen on it!




This is the bush with smaller red flowers. It hasn't produced flowers in about a year and now that it is, it has some white disease on it. I'm not sure what it is or what to do about it. I'll have to research it on the internet, or if someone knows, let me know.


Anyways, I love being able to grow things right now, so I just thought I'd share.

Birthday

I just had a birthday and am officially 27...again. :)

My hubby made a steak dinner and got a delicious fudge chocolate cake. And I got my very first sewing machine! Now I don't have to borrow anymore!

Happy Easter

The kids got to do an Easter Egg hunt at Grandma Strong's house this year. Luckily, we remembered our camera.


Allison's first Easter Egg hunt. She soon realized that she liked finding eggs and that there was candy inside.


My handsome boy with his find.


Mckenzie was ready to feast on candy before she finished finding all her eggs.


Good job Mckenzie!


My sweet girl with a runny nose.


We also had a family reunion this weekend. Here are Will and Mckenzie at the family dance. They had a blast.