These next two are in our front yard.
Mom Balsley visited me this last week and has been a terrific blessing! She helped me get land cleared for our garden, among many many other things. Our backyard is grass and then a very dense hodge podge of flowering plants. I was feeling more than overwhelmed at the prospect of clearing the area for the garden! (Not to mention, I could not physically do it all.) Here is the results:
I really wish I had a "before" picture for those of you that haven't made it out here, but oh well. Take my word for it, there were plants everywhere! The plants left here in the back ground of this picture are raspberry bushes. We also found a random little rhubarb planted. I am excited to try my hand at gardening, (thanks to Sara and Jonathan and the gardening seeds/tools for Christmas) and nervous!
Mom also made me a cake and helped us celebrate my birthday. It was a blast to actually have family around on my birthday.
(1) Yes, I have to wear maternity clothes!
I thought the following variety of tulip was pretty interesting. It has a shredded look when it opens. So far I have been pleasantly surprised at what has come up. First the two-tone tulips and now these:
Basically no doorknobs in our house work properly. In our 3-seasons room, Lucy found out that she can push on the doors and they pop open if they aren't dead bolted. Here is her grand escape... followed by a roll on the dirt mound that is our power line trench.
Here are the new sprouts on one of the rose bushes we hacked away at last fall. I hope we get some great roses this year!
Here are our beautiful tulips. The first one finally showed its color and I think they are gorgeous! I was worried that the bunnies and deer would get to them before I got to see what color they were.
Happy Resurrection Day 2010! As we are so far from our families, I thought I would post a new Easter "family" picture again this year. The Easter Lily was a gift from Andrew. It is beautiful and had two new blooms open this morning!
