Reason For Being Late

This might explain why we were late for school the other day!

Happiness is Muddiness

Jaxson finally got to turn on the hose in the mud and he was one happy boy for quite a while.

Cheap Gardening

The yard looks a mess after all the snow melted, matted yellow grass, rocks that have risen to the top of the flower beds, dead plant stubs, dead leaves entangled in the ground cover. Have been wanting to do something out there so I started by edging the flower bed out front and removing rocks. It was looking good when I went to start on the other flower bed. It is one I made myself and I have never liked the shape of it. I call it the pregnant omebea. It is such a pain to weed and take care of. So we decided on the spur of the moment to remove it. Started digging up all the flowers and moved them to the smaller bed and smoothing out the dirt in the big bed to let the grass take over again. That is where the grass wants to be anyway so I am going to let it grow. Feels good to get rid of it, it was tons of work and not that pretty. Hopefully we got the plants transplanted early enough in the season that they will adjust and do well this year. So now I have had my need for gardening and digging in the fresh spring soil satisfied, without spending a dime!

Here is the smaller bed:

And here is the big bed that will be going back to grass:

Spring is Springing

And the kids are off to school on their bikes today! Last week when we got the bikes out there were two flat tires and some really dusty tired looking bikes. We got the flats fixed up, I guess last fall I was prepared and bought new tubes, just never found the need to put them in with all the snow around. The bikes have new life in them now that the kids are using them. They were so excited to ride their bikes to school. Just notice the coats and the gloves to protect their little fingers from frost bite. It is still pretty cold when you get moving on a bike in the crisp morning air.

Sledding After Dark with Friends

Here is the photo I wanted ya'll to see, it was very dark out there and the hill was steep. Took tons of pictures, but most of them are blurry, it is harder than you would imagine to get a camera to focus in the dark when you can't really see what it is you are taking a picture of!

Sledding After Dark

Well you know that we got slammed with a foot and a half of snow on Monday while we were out of town. The kids didn't have school on Thursday and Friday for parent teacher conferences, so I decided that in order to truly enjoy this fabulous snow we had better get out there quickly. The calendar said Full Moon so we called up a few friends and met at the park for some awesome sledding in the dark, apparently the moon doesn't always come up when the sun goes down! oooppss! Oh well, we had tons of fun anyway and didn't even end up in the ER.