Sunday, June 2, 2013

Sensational sidewalk and more

For months I've been going through the house and collecting garage sale items, mostly baby gear, with the hopes of having enough money at the end of the sale to revamp our playroom so it was better set up for our needs. At the end of the garage sale, we didn't have enough for what I'd hoped. We deliberated and decided that we'd use the money to work on our front yard instead.

After several trips to Home Depot, we finally gathered all the flowers, tools and cement we needed to add a small bed at the corner of the yard to eat up some of the grass and to extend the driveway over the area that currently held hodge podge rocks.

As we began moving rock and tearing up the (dead) grass, we found out that the previous owners had laid down landscaping cloth under the soil before planting the grass. This is why our grass in the front won't grow- it gets plenty of water but, with the cloth, the roots can't absorb it or get any new nutrients! This is a huge problem but one for another time.

We worked together all weekend and had so much fun doing it. We can't wait to see our creation once the plants start to recover from the trauma of being planted.

We planted all native Colorado plants that require watering only once a week
once established. Along the front ( where the rock still is) we planted four
Russian Sage plants that are doing well!
Our plants from last year have come back beautifully, even after being
moved late last summer. Now I'm waiting for our wildflowers to
show their pretty faces.

Breakfast buddies

Morning, Boy!
With the arrival of summer brings the summer schedule. Mack gets to stay up until 8pm and, with the later bed time, she often sleeps in until 8am. Mason is up and at 'em by 7 so he and Ellie usually have breakfast together:

Cheese!
Ellie likes sitting by Mason because he feeds her generously

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Hungry?

Sometimes hunger takes over and you just can't get the food in fast enough, right, Mason?

Class of 2026 *gulp*


First and last day of preschool


This past week has been full of end of school year activities!  Some where along the way, Mackenzie's teacher, Mandy, reported that Mack's class would be the graduating class of 2026.  Looking at my girl, who grew so much during her preschool year, that suddenly doesn't seem so far away.  Now that school is out, we've filled our summer with lots of fun- play dates with friends, over night trips, swim and ballet classes just to name a few!

Mack and her best school buddy, James have lots of plans for the summer
Mrs. Mandy, our favorite
Mrs. Vazquez





So proud of have her "diploma"
Signing Riley's yearbook






Sunday, May 19, 2013

How's the view?


Nothing is off limits in Mason's mind! He loves to be outside and on the play set. He thinks he should be able to traverse it with the same ease that Mackenzie does and it can make for a grumpy boy when he can't get where he wants. But mostly, he has fun sitting in the top and looking out!

Watch out below!

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Book Worm

Reading her Oceanography book and wearing Grams'
glasses

What we're currently reading. We've already read Ralph S. Mouse
twice but it's a favorite for Mack
It's been so much fun having a new reader in the house! Even though she can read to herself and to us, she still loves to be read to. It's bittersweet to leave behind some of our favorite pictures books ( for a time) but so much fun to read some of the old " classics" that Mike and I loved as little book worms, ourselves.  Mackenzie recently picked out several books from the library to read to Mason.

On the Farm

Imagine Mack's excitement when she heard that Papa had brought home two goats, three calves and a pig from the Auction!

I grew up with bunches of goats and they were just like pets to us. It's so fun to have them around again.


Who needs pants? Mason was pretty excited about goats, too!


The mare, Daisy, gave birth to this colt last spring. He's still pretty iffy around people but he sure wanted Mack's apple!