More artwork

Here's more artwork. This is a picture of Bob (notice there's no hair. She draws me and herself with curly hair). There's also a border of dots "to keep it safe". The dots are made from big stamp markers....she didn't color the precise circles. She draws a safety border around everything these days.

artwork from school

Here's some of Parker's artwork from school. This is an "ice painting"....where they dip ice cubes in paint and use them to paint the picture.

New Garden! New plants! New spring look!

I decided to change the blog masthead to look more spring-like. I wish I could say that I did it myself, but I had it done by a local digital scrapbook designer...with my detailed requests of course. I think she did a great job! Check out her digital artwork, and buy things! She has free stuff here: http://seebeesfreebies.blogspot.com/

And she sells things at Digitals too.

Now that it's spring, we are spending lots of time in the yard. Our first big project was to build me a garden. Yay!!! No more container gardening! Bob whipped up this raised planter, out of cedar I think, and I filled it with a carload (literally) of dirt and I've planted 2 tomatoes and a jalapeño so far. I'm going to add a cucumber or zucchini soon. Sort of a lot of effort just for 4 plants, but if it's successful, next year I'll do another one.

Parker found a worm to torment when I was planting herbs in another bed. I convinced her he'd like living in my garden, so she shortly set him free in there.

The finished product. We have it located in the back of the house by the trampoline. It's probably going to be too much sun, but hopefully we'll add another tree back there soon to give it a break part of the day.

Our winter plants are looking great, like they always do in the spring. Maybe their know their days are numbered. I'm so glad we planted the kale/cabbage stuff this year. It looks so pretty as it grows....plus it takes up a lot more room than pansies.

We got 3 new hydrangeas...the one in the picture is an Oak Leaf hydrangea, I've wanted one forever. Even if it doesn't bloom, it has such pretty leaves, and grows a little bit taller than the normal kind I think. The hosta is old. We also got 2 'pink lady' hydrangeas, (not pictured) that have reddish stems and back of the leaves. We put it out by the dogwood in the little circular bed.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone! We've had a nice family weekend. Bob took Friday off, so we've all done lots of family stuff and home projects.
Yesterday, Parker dyed her eggs. She's so confused by the term "dying" when talking about coloring eggs though. She'll say "die the eggs?!". Instead of dip dying them like usual, we dripped food coloring onto them and then rinsed it off for a tie-dye effect. I think they look great.

The Easter bunny was pretty generous when filling up her basket this year. Here she is unpacking her loot. She got a stuffed kitty cat, just what she's been wishing for aloud for weeks, and various other stuff and lots of candy of course. She has a candy bag in the cabinet, and knows she can have one piece a day, and she's pretty compliant.

When it warmed up a little bit, we went outside and hunted our eggs. Parker is really good at hiding them!

Tomorrow, school starts again after being off for a week for Spring Break. She's going to be so excited to see all her friends!