Category : Garden

A Happy Mother’s Day

A Happy Mother’s Day

Mother Nature did her best to put a kink in our annual Mother’s Day celebration…but she ended up failing miserably.    Despite cool temperatures and a rainy morning, we were able to not only get to the garden store and pick up all the necessary goodies – but we were also able to get [...]

Spring Has Sprung

Spring Has Sprung

Well wouldn’t ya know it…Spring is here!  As for Winter? – meh…it didn’t bother to show up this year, rather it sent it’s unpopular-cousin, “Mr. Extended-Dry-Boring-Autumn” to keep us company from October to March.  But alas, this past weekend was the first weekend of Spring – and boy did it deliver!  We had clear blue [...]

Our wonderful garden…

Our wonderful garden…

So, somehow we made it an entire summer without doing a post dedicated to our amazing garden.  Every year we plant our garden on Mother’s Day weekend, and spend the rest of the season maintaining and enjoying everything it has to offer.  Our summer was mixed up this year due to a number of circumstances, [...]

A Memorable Memorial Day Weekend

A Memorable Memorial Day Weekend

   WOW! What a fun (and amazingly busy!) weekend! Looking back, it seems we crammed an unbelievable amount of work and play into just a little over 3 days, but it sure was a blast.
   All-in-all, the weekend can be summed up as 3 BBQ-Nights, 1 freshly sanded/stained deck, 2 visits to Grandparents, 1 game [...]

“Thay Cheeeeth!!”

“Thay Cheeeeth!!”

For those of you that haven’t heard…poor little Ellie had quite the eventful day this past Friday. After Cameron’s Mother’s Day show at his school, a bunch of families and their kids went to McDonald’s for lunch – sounds innocent enough, right? Wrong. Ellie decided to add a little excitement to the [...]