Springtime fun!

Well, I know it's been a while since my last post, but I've been a busy girl! It's spring time (almost) so that means I've got work to do!

Every year my husband and I plant a garden! We love to grow corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash. This year, I'm going to try lettuce, carrots, and potato's as well! I'm super excited! Every night that it's been pretty when we get home from work, we've been working in the field and the garden. One night we burnt off the field, the next night we tilled the garden. Then you always have a few nights of nasty weather, or you have to factor in the days/nights we have church. So it's a long process getting all this stuff done!

Well, tonight we finally got a row of potato's planted! I'm soooooo excited to see them grow! I got Noah some of his own garden tools and gloves! He loves them! We played in the dirt, we ran around in the yard, he chased me in his truck! It was a great night! I am looking forward to more of these great nights in the future and  can't wait to see my little guy grow!

Disappointments=frustration=exgaustion

I have been trying to work on another arts and crafts project for a gal that is having twins. I'm using the exact same pattern she's using as the theme in the room for the kiddos.

I have gone to store after store trying to match up ribbons to the main colors that she's pulling from for the boy and the girl. The boy was easy and his is almost finished. However, just like a typical girl, hers is hard to complete! I'm having the hardest time finding just the right color of ribbon to match up as well as the little buttons/pins for accents! It's so frustrating! However, I try not to get too upset, because I know that when I finally get this project finished, I know momma will like it and I myself will finally be satisfied and done with it!!!

Lazy Days

Some days you get up and just feel like doing absolutely nothing!!! Well, I've felt like that all day, but I had to work. Not sure if it was because Gabe had the day of or if I just felt like being lazy.

Tomorrow Gabe has to work, so Noah and I are going to sleep in. Then we are going to get up and make chocolate chip cookies and surprise Gabe at work with them!! I'm so excited! He's going to love them!

Then Noah and I are going to come back home and have some more fun driving his "big black truck" around the yard again. He's been talking about it since last weekend when he drove it during the nice weather! We get home so late in the evening that there isn't enough daylight left after we eat dinner for him to drive it. Hopefully it won't be too much longer before the longer days arrive and we'll be able to spend some time outside during the weekdays!

Finally we are able to go outside and enjoy the weather! After Noah woke up from his nap, he just HAD to have some "icecweam and spwenko's". So he got his ice cream and sprinkles! Afterwards he wanted to watch a movie, but I told him how nice it was outside and thought it would be super fun to drive the truck in the yard! He quickly agreed, so that's what we did!

He had a great time! He finally figured out that you can get farther, faster, if you keep your foot on the gas instead of stop go, stop go!! He then finally started to understand a little more about how you need to turn the wheel to go different directions. This is the first time he's drove it in about 7 months or so and he never really drove it very much last year...I'd say he'll be a pro racin speed boy by the end of this summer!

Catch up

So many things happen through our lives all too often speed  our lives up and we can't catch our breaths! That has been the way my life has been going this past weekend.

So many people I know are having babies, one person is getting married and we are planning our vacation, not to mention getting ready for this summer which includes landscaping the house (finally after 6 years!), planting another garden, and getting a new weed eater.

Thursday even I spent about 2 1/2 hours making pictures boards for my mother in law and my sister in law (which I have posted on my arts and crafts page). Neither of them expected to get one, so it was nice to see their faces when I gave it to them! Friday night after work, we went to my parents house and visited until about midnight! Saturday I spent the day shopping for a wedding gift, a baby shower gift, some material to make another baby shower gift and I also had to find patterns and material for my sister to make me new dresses for this summer! Needless to say,  I was pretty wore out by the end of the day!

Today I am trying to clean up and arrange the spare bedroom, it's a little bigger than Noah's current room, so I'm planning on moving him into it this summer and redecorating it for him...it's so exciting and sad at the same time how big he is getting! I can't believe that almost three years ago I gave birth to the most amazing child I could ever ask for!

Needless to say, I'm ready for some much needed R &R! But, why rest when you can get more done staying awake...right??

Handy work!

I've never really been big on doing things crafty. I never felt like I could do it. The most I ever accomplished was make scarfs by crochetting them. It's just been within the past few years that I've really started liking to find things that I could make. At work I decided I wanted to change the "theme" in my cubical and I wanted to find a black and green colored picture board ( for example, the items on my arts and crafts tab!!)

My sisters and mom and I were shopping for our yearly birthday shopping party and I was trying to find ones that I liked. I couldn't find anything that I liked at all! So my oldest sister said "Why don't you just make one?" Duh! Why don't I just make one...but how? So I started looking around for things I could use to make one...then finally I did! I loved doing it and my family liked mine. so I made all 3 of my sisters and my mom one for Christmas this past year!

Now I am in the process of making one for my sister n law and one for my mother n law. I'm able to now think of different and possibly better ways to make them. Either way, I'm really enjoying myself and can't wait to find different ideas to make them more personable for people! So much to do! But, I love doing it!

Life's lessons

As you go through life, you learn lessons. Lessons in which you are to learn from....as you see the world go by and are faced with so many different people, you wonder "Am I the only only that learns from my mistakes/lessons?"

It's scary to bring children in to the world, because you see day by day how the world is dwindling to nothing. How people get by and handle their lives without the Lord is beyond me. If I didn't have the Lord to call on every time I was scared, upset, sad, or was just lonely, well I just wouldn't know what to do! I just don't know how people make it!

I'm reminded of a song, " Jesus, sweet Jesus, what a wonder you are. You're brighter than, the morning star. You're fairer than the lillies that grow by the way. You're sweeter, much sweeter by far."