Gardening Help

My kids love to “help” in the garden. Really I am tiring to keep them (especially Siesa) from stepping on or digging up the plants. Today we picked sugar snap peas and green beans. One of the best things about having a garden is that not only does it taste oh so good but my kids love to eat the vegetables. I guess there is just something about being able to pick it by yourself that the kids love. A few Sundays ago Derek and the kids were outside for two hours picking and eating sugar snap peas. Yum Hopefully all the other plants will do as well as the green beans and sugar snap peas have. Time will tell.

Mothers day (a little late)

The best thing about mother’s day this year is that Derek didn’t have any church meetings. Yeah! He and Jensen both cooked me breakfast and they gave me a helping hands plant. They all traced their hands and put things that they were thankful for and things they would do for me like a foot massage, making the bed, taking a nap etc. Jensen told me that “it was my responsibility” to pick one out and give it to them so they could do the things on the hands. What cute kids(and husband)

Field Trip

We went to the Yellow River Ranch last week. It was a one mile walk to look at animals (dear, pigs, goats, ducks, rabbits, etc.) All the animals were very used to people and would come right up to us so we could pet them. Some of the animals were a little aggressive and wanted to be fed but unfortunately we didn’t have any thing to give them.

Jensen’s new phase is to wear “gyubs” or socks on is hands. He likes to pretend to be a garbage man and a few weeks ago he noticed that they were wearing gloves so now he always wants to wear them too. I often wonder what people think is wrong with him when he is at the store or running around the park with socks on this hands. Oh well.

In Honor of Mother's day

Happy Mother's day we love you Mom/Grandma

Love Derek, Sidsie, Jensen & Sisea

Mulch pit?

I made a sand box this week. OK, so really right now it is a mulch pit. The kids love to play in the garden dirt. Now that our garden is planted I didn’t what them to play in the garden. The other day I went outside and Siesa was sitting on a strawberry plant digging and I decided I needed to give them somewhere else to play so made the sand box and filled it with mulch (Free mulch that is). In June the city does a beach party and brings in 60 tons of sand and at the end of the party you can have the sand for free. I was planning to make a sandbox in June when I could get the sand for free but we couldn’t wait that long if I wanted our garden to grow. The kids love the mulch box and have already played for hours in it. The only thing is that it is dirty but I guess a little dirt doesn’t hurt, so my kids have just had lots of baths this week, like almost everyday.

Siesa blinking

Siesa learned to blink (kind of). I have not idea where she picked up on it but, it is soooo cute to watch.

Adventures

The last few weeks have been so fun here are some of the things we have been doing.

Birthdays - When Jensen woke up he walked into my room and asked very excitedly “Am I three today?” After I said he was he ran down stairs to see his cake. I made him a cake with trucks on it he looked at it very perplexed and said “mom why are there trucks on my cake, that’s silly” and insisted that we take them off. For lunch we went to MacDonald’s and played in the play place. Jensen got some books, some more music and the big hit was a remote control car. He was complete blown away by it, he had never seen one and was so entranced by it. We was laughing hysterically, jumping up and down yelling “I don’t believe, I don’t believe this” for 45 minutes. Siesa was chasing it all over tying to catch it and Derek and I were laughing at Jensen. It was a fun evening. Wednesday it was Siesa’s birthday which was also fun. She liked to open her presents because she loves to rip things and opened some all by her self. Siesa got a sleeping bag, a book and a front facing car seat. She enjoys the new view from her seat. Her cake was in the shape of a one. It was a banana bread cake and she enjoyed eating it and of course making a mess.

Family Reunion

We went for the week to Nashville for a family reunion. The best part of Nashville was of course all the family time. We had some good laughs, card games and discussions, we got no sleep and were sad to leave. Jensen and Siesa had a great time with there cousins. We did some sight seeing. We went to the hermitage, (I still don’t know why it is called that?) Andrew Jackson’s home. The set up was very nice and there was lots to see. We walked all around the grounds seeing the slave quarters, the gardens, looked at the animals, we toured the house and the museum. We were there for almost 3 hours. We also went the Grand Ole Opry hotel. There were 5 huge atriums with a river, waterfalls, trees, flowers, fountains, etc it was beautiful. I was very impressed with how big it was, it was a tropical paradise. We also went to the Parthenon . . . Oh wait, we went to a replica of the Parthenon. It had an art museum inside and was pretty cool and big. One night we left the kids with grandma and grandpa and went out on the town. We went to a dueling piano bar, it was very fun. There were 4 men that all sang, played the piano, and other instruments very well and could sing anything that people requested. We enjoyed all the good music. We went (or should I say Derek and Jensen) swimming almost everyday and a few days twice. Jensen just couldn’t get enough of that pool. Siesa liked it OK but enjoyed sitting on the side with her feet in the water watching. It was a little cold for her. On Sunday we had a birthday party for both Jensen and Siesa. We played a few games, pin the bow on the balloons, sheepy, sheepy come home and a relay race. We made homemade pizza and had cake and ice ream. Jensen and Siesa got spoiled with gifts (thanks everyone).

Our next adventure my parents and Erik came for the weekend We did some sight seeing on Friday. We also hiked to the top of Stone Mountain, and had a picnic. Saturday afternoon we colored Easter eggs and had our hunt. Jensen was excited of course and amazingly Siesa caught on very well. She would get so excited when she found one. She didn’t want to put them in the basket but wanted to eat them. She opened a plastic egg by her self and started enjoying candy before I noticed and she also broke a hard boiled egg in half and started feasting on that too. My parents brought both the kids and me birthday gifts so it has been a birthday few weeks. Erik gave me a pot that he made.