Cloudy Day !!!

We are expecting rain later on today, I don't mind at all we went 3 weeks with nothing but sun.We have completed some more projects around the house since I posted last. I finally have my own laundry. We converted one of our closets into laundry. We bought a stacking front loading set. Works great, extremely quiet, only noticeable thing is when it winds up to 1000rpm for the spin cycle the floor vibrates..lol Logan was quite upset when he saw his blankey in the washer and he couldn't get it back out. As soon as I gave it back to him nice and clean and dry he never let go of it for about 45 mins..LOL
We've also been doing more gardening and building up the flower beds around the yard. The vegetable garden is doing very well. We seem to have tons of tomatoes coming, I just wonder how many will actually ripen.

Logan has become a going concern that is for sure, he's shy of 18 months and has been getting into everything..lol *sigh* Long toddler stage ahead..LOL

We are also planning a trip for the end of summer vacation along with some day trips for the kids. Time to relax a bit....

Pictures

Been Pretty Hectic

Sorry for not posting for almost a month but here I am giving an update. The weather has been beautiful for the past few days I have been outside enjoying it. This year we put our pool up exactly at the right time. It heated up to 30 in no time flat. My tomato plants and potato plants have sure taken off. Today mother nature is giving everything a well needed shower.

We have been also cleaning up the front yard, weeding all the flower beds and doing some planting. Everything was let go by the previous owners, so we are extremely busy. We order 6 yards of garden topsoil to freshen all the existing plants and flowers up as well as fresh start to some plants to be planted. The mix has compost in it so it should do really well in the garden beds......

Mikayla did great in school this year. She not only was promoted to grade 6 but with honours !!!! We are very proud of her.

Logan has been walking like crazy for about the last 3 weeks or so, he's out grown his 2 naps and is down to just hias afternoon one. I must add I look forward to that time, now that he is getting into everything...LOL

Between 3 kids, a husband I still find a little time for Stampin, I haven't really made too much, still getting my supplies. It seems there is always something missing to complete a project. I have also started scrapbboks for the kids.......

I think I have covered everything.....Will blog again with some pictures.....

Sunshine....

Finally, we are getting some. We are enjoying the beautiful weather and it seems that our garden is too. It seems that the previous owner may have left more behind then first thought. It seems that we might have potatoes, pumpkins AND squash as well as what I planted. Cannot be 100% sure but hopefully we are right and we do have a variety of veggies.

We planted peas, carrots, tomatoes, and strawberries along with a bunch of different flowers. I thought this year I would just play around and see what I end up with..LOL This is the first year I can actually say I am gardening......

I will add a photo later to this post of what the garden looks like since Mother's Day.

Some of what you see in the pictures, I didn't plant. The previous owner did and now we are trying to figure out what is a weed and what isn't..LOL Fun Times !!! If you can help, please leave a comment on what you think something is...

Mother's Day 2008

Today it was spent having Breakfast delivered by my hubby from Tim Horton's followed by a trip to the nursery where we picked up a few flowers, tomato and strawberry plants. Rushed home and got work planting it all before it rained too much. Luckily it actually didn't rain much at all just drizzled here and there. I also got my gift that I had been waiting for some time. A flat screen computer monitor.

Yard Update !!

Well Sunday we spent all day outside in the front yard cleaning up an area of the garden that we have decided that once we get rid of the yard trimmings we are going to plant grass seed. We took out all the dead cedar bushes out from the front and pulled up as much cedar trimmings and waste that had built up over the years.....We had already pruned the yellow bush and now just waiting for a bob cat of some sort to come and pull up the root ball, shovel just isn't gonna do it. Luckily we were able to dig out the cedars pretty easily. The main goal here is to make it easy to maintain until we decide what we really want to do. We need to clean up the mess left behind before starting anything. The pictures aren't the greatest but hope you get the idea..no yellow bush or cedar trees or at least the pile of rubbish in the yard..lol

Soon have to think about tomatoes plants and cucumbers. I think they go in late May ???

Sunny but Cold

Looks very sunny outside today but quite breezy and cool, makes me want my blinds even more now. We get sun through our kitchen windows in the morning. I am very anxious to have my blinds put up, they will make the room. I get tired of being in there at night working away and having my windows bare and can see the blackness outside. The neighing house that backs our yard also is bare. That house is the one we first saw when looking to buy, it was awful, either someone actually bought it or the ppl decided to move back in ..LOL That house was located on a corner so the backyard is triangled shape..The driveway is lined with cedar trees. VERY private...too private for us. I like privacy but openess is nice too....

Anyways I have started digging up one of the garden boxes in the backyard, just have to get down on my hands and knees and finish picking all the weeds out then start preparing the ground for planting.... Blog soon...