Spring is here!!!

So, this is officially our second spring in this house.  Last year we didn't really do much to take care of our yard.  Mostly it was because I was preggers and Sean was either working his butt off doing 12 hour days, or was in school.  So...I am sure that our neighbors were extremely embarrassed to be living beside us.  They are the older, love to garden, type people.  In other words, the complete opposite of Sean and I.

Well, this year Sean and I have decided to no longer be an eye sore for our neighborhood.  So this last weekend Sean and I did a whole bunch of work in the yard.  I weeded and tilled the front flower beds, I weeded the side and corner beds, Sean and I raked all the leaves and we cleaned out the main flower bed.  I even pruned the rose bushes, and Sean got rid of all the hollyhocks.  So, now our yard looks great!  And then to top it all off, I mowed the lawn.  Yay for me!!!!  So, we have about 15 garbage bags of leaves and grass clippings.  I have started a compost heap in the back, but the dump has a giant heap and they don't charge you for bringing your compost.  So...away the bags are going!!!!  It is so nice that our whole yard is clean and so now all we have to do is keep it up...

Our Garden Gnome Balder

Now for the house.  I reorganized my living room again.  I was just tired of how it was, so I moved stuff around.  I am happy with it.  Today I did all the dishes, am running the dishwasher, doing laundry.  I am trying to get my house clean, but it just seems like as soon as I get a handle on one area of the house then another area becomes a complete disaster.  It is like I can't win!!!  And...my kid isn't even mobile yet.  She just sits in one place and plays with her toys.  What am I going to do when she starts roaring around the house like a hurricane????

On a completely different subject...I am a beaming big sister.  

My little brother Luke, is no longer a little boy.  I went home to visit my family over the last week and I got to spend some time with my younger brother and his (at that time) girlfriend Darilyn.  It was the weirdest thing...I was looking at him, and spending time with him and I realized that he was a man.  He lives in his own rental place with Darilyn and another one of my brothers, Steve.  He isn't living under someone else's roof, but he is the man of his own house.  And, yeah, his house is a bit of a dump, but he takes care of it the best that he can.  I feel a little sorry for Darilyn because the house does look like a bunch of boys live there, but when she gets a chance I am sure that she will put a bit of a feminine touch into the house.  But they take really good care of the yard which is nice.  So, then the day after I left Luke proposed to Darilyn.  They are getting married!!!  I am so happy for them!!!!  So, not only am I so proud of Luke and the man that he has become, but I am getting a new sister!!!!!!!  Yay!!!!!! 

Well, Jenni is getting 4 new teeth right now and it is not the most fun event ever, but it could be a whole lot worse.  
 
So, I bid my readers adieu.  Thanks for listening!!!!!

A New Chapter

This weekend was a very sad weekend.  One of my best friends here in Three Hills moved away.  She isn't really that far away, and I will still be able to talk to her on the phone and see her every 3 weeks or so...but she isn't here anymore.

It just makes things a little different.  See, before this was my go-to girl.  If I was having an issue, or just really needed parenting advise, or just needed a girlfriend to cry on...she was there, just down the block.  She is a true friend who loved me BECAUSE of who I am, not IN SPITE of who I am.  I know that we are still friends, and we will forever be friends, but it just is not the same.  I am not as heart broken as I thought I was going to be because I know she isn't that far away, but it is just different.  I have other friends in town too, but none of them are the same.  Obviously, because no one can be the same...but still.  See, of all my friends in town who love me because of who I am don't have kids.  It just makes the friendship that much stronger.

So, all that said.  I am going to miss you friend, but I know that the telephone will be great!!!!  Love you!!!!