Spring Pictures

No baby yet!  We're still waiting.  It's probably a good thing because the kids and I have been fighting colds for the last week.  Hopefully we are on the recovery side of things but it seems to want to hang on. I figure this little gal will make her appearance when she's good and ready!  And so far she's not ready! :)

I thought I'd share with you a few fun spring photos that I've taken over the last two weeks.  It's been mostly rainy but we had about 2 1/2 days of beautiful weather that we had to get out in!

A puddle

We had three new baby goats but two didn't make it.  Zayah wants to "hold them."

Our farm girl feeding the goats

Little Stockings

My DH also finished the kids bunk beds and they slept in them last night.  They love them!

Spring Day Pictures

Today was such a beautiful day that I couldn't help but take a short walk with Liesel.  And of course I could resist taking some pictures of Liesel in amongst the flowers! :)

Here are some of the pictures we took on the way!

What a lovely walk we had!

Spring Blooms

Signs of Spring

Our 1st bloom





My DH got these for my birthday.  I can't wait to see them bloom!

Happy May Day!

Well, I don't have a basket of flowers to give to you all, so pictures will have to do!

Happy May Day!

Tip-Toeing Through the Tulips

Today my DH took me out on a date to a tulip farm. The sight was just breath-taking! There were so many beautiful varieties and colors. I took lots of pictures but one still can't capture the beauty of it all. There was just so much to take in!

This greeting card personalized with Smilebox

Projects

Today has been the day of projects. JB is on spring break so he's been keeping himself busy on building a fort in the barn. I have to say its a nice fort! It even has a carpeted floor and right now my DH and JB are working on wiring lights into it. Last night JB slept in it but today he along with my two brothers-in-law added some more touches.

Before starting into the fort today, JB weed-eated all the way to the sign post along the ditch, so I began raking and cleaning up the debris. I spent a good amount of time doing that and once I got most of the ditch cleaned up I came in a took a break. I wanted to go down to Grandma's and dig up some more poppies but I decided to wait a little. Before I could go down there she came up and was checking on the already planted poppies. I came out and thus began the planting process again. I dug holes while she got the poppies from her house. She then planted them as I brought them down into the ditch. She told me this is a project she has wanted to do for over 30 years! Well, better late than never!

Callie decided she wanted to be helpful so she started making my holes a little bigger and soon she discovered that there was a mouse tunnel. That kept her busy for quite some time.

A short while later my dear mother-in-law comes walking by and decides to join in on the fun. She found a rake and began raking all the debris at the bottom of the ditch into piles. Eventually we got the boys to come over with the lawnmower/trailer and cart the piles away.

We now have more than half of the weed-eated area planted with poppies and decided to save the rest of the planting for another day. We joked with each other that this was becoming a "neighborhood" project. Of course we knew that but anyone driving by probably thought we were one of those work crews on the side of the road filling our time. No, we're just a bunch of crazy neighbors trying to beautify our ditch! :)