Happ Birthday Dad...

Today he celebrates his 67th year. He shows no interest
in retiring. He approaches life with a quiet determination.
Believes in telling the truth, and fairness. Works hard,
and does the job right.
Happy Birthday Dad, you are my inspiration!

peek a boo....

Rosie's favorite game is peek-a-boo. Often this is her
choice of entertainment at night, rather than sleeping.
She found this red tote on Saturday as we were
setting things up for graduation...soon she had
everyone pausing in their tasks to play peek with her.

Dippin' Dots.....

I Surprised Cassandra with these for her graduation open house.
When UPS delivered them on Saturday she was speechless.
Needless to say she was very excited, these are by far her
favorite form of ice cream.

Cassandra's Graduation

unday June 3rd, 2007

Graduation....

a few pics from Cassandra's graduation (yes there will be more)
(and yes this would be the reason for no blog posts for the past several
days, I've been just a wee bit busy preparing for this "big" day)
before, during and after....whew! more to come, but right now
I'm to tired to post more....

baby bird update....

snapped a few pics of the baby bird hanging out in
my hanging planter. There are four of them,
all have hatched and are definitely looking like
something only a mother could love. We are having
so much fun watching them develop and change.

Did you know....

You can grow a pizza in a garden?
The kids are so excited by these two
container gardens...simple because of
the names I think. They can't wait until
the vegetables begin to grow and we
can actually make salsa from the
ingredients and pizza sauce. I fear if these
gardens don't make it, it will simply be due
to too much love. Ok Kelly this and all
other posts today are for you...you asked
(a long while ago) for pictures of all
my garden spots, so today I finally deliver.
Enjoy!

a few more...

containers...love how the lights look at night, and
the colorful pots and containers. So far everything
is doing well, amazingly well. The bottom pic is the new
location for the sandbox...a much happier solution to
little toes and bodies that are incredible tough on grass.

Vegetables...

The top two photos are all the containers which
currently have vegetables growing in them..due
to my lack of space to put an actual garden in this
year we decided to try containers...a wonderful
solution. The bottom photo is a work in progress, this
is where the sand box used to sit, but naturally all
the grass was killed by those little feet so we planted
grass and sweetcorn...I know why sweet corn? Well
I saw this really awesome idea of planting sunflowers
to make a hut for kids to play inside...thinking with my
crew sunflowers would never hold up...I switched it out
for corn...durable and an added bonus come fall I will
have my corn stalks. Sometimes I just simply amaze
myself with the ideas I come up with. I will post more
photos as the summer progresses to share the growth
of our little play hut.

Containers...

Scattered throughout my yard are many plants,
housed in containers...the top photo is a mixture of
vegetables and flowers, this is in the daycare area
and receives a lot of attention and love (perhaps not
the kind required of these plants but all in all they
appear to be doing well) In the middle is a hodgepodge
of flowers and herbs, the lantern is a solar light and at night
it casts a soft light over this area and the bottom photo is
my weathered and worn bench which sits under the apple
tree one of Yahaira's favorite places to be.

flowers...

Some of these are established plants...who have
survived years of my neglect. Love the lilacs that
grow on the west side of my house. Love that
these plants require so very little care from me.

Fruit patches....

The top photo is the raspberry patch, red and black.
also towards the end of the house are grape plants,
near the trellis. The middle picture is of the blue-
berry plants, you have to squint and look close to see
them. The last photo is the strawberry patch. We
will have a veritable fruit market when all are ready
to be picked.

My front porch...

Loving how this came to gether...love sitting out here
in the evenings...last night Rosie and I sat outside
for quite awhile listening to the rain.

playing in the grass...

I know the bottom pic is a bit blurry and out of
focus, but I simply love watching Rosie run. Her
little legs do triple time in order to keep up with
her big sister....so love how that little body moves
as she runs...so love the excitement and joy she
finds in the simplest things...just so love that little
girl!

a few more pics from Monday...