Monday, March 29, 2010

The prophet said to plant a garden...

So that's what we did!
Last Saturday, we planted strawberries, tomatoes, lettuce, onion, cucumber, brussels sprouts & beets. We also have carrot seeds & a potato that still need planted. Hopefully we'll do those this weekend.
Before we could plant, we had to get the soil ready.


So far things are going really well. We have little lettuce sprouts,
a few brussels sprouts have sprouted and 5 of the 8 strawberry plants have blossoms (only 1 had blossoms when we bought them).
Hopefully things will continue grow and in the upcoming weeks we can enjoy the fruits of our labor (literally!).

Friday, March 26, 2010

What's new with us?


Well...not much! Zach is still working at ASU and he should be getting a raise in the near future. Yay! He enjoys working there and loves the convenience of working on campus but we are both hoping that he can get a job working in the field he is studying before he graduates.
We also found out today that Zach got a $300 scholarship! Not much, but hey it's free money!
Here are some pictures of one of his latest projects. It is a model of a graveyard.


I spend my days crafting, counting, coloring, reading, watching movies, swinging & teaching colors. Ok, so pretty much I'm a mom all day & try to squeeze in some crafting time when I can. I can't believe how grown up Madie is getting. She climbs the ladder to the slide all by herself (which makes me nervous), she knows several colors (pink & blue are her favorite) & she loves to sing, especially primary songs & veggie tales songs. She also loves to help me cook, but is no longer content to watch me do things...she needs to help. I think that just about sums things up, so here are some cute pictures.

Madie loves to help Grandma (& mommy) with sewing projects.


She loves to dress herself.

Did you notice the bandaids on her knees? :)

She loves to play with her cousins.

(She loves Dustin & Sarah's kids too...we just don't have any pics of her with them. She does pretend to call them on the phone on a regular basis...it's pretty cute.)

She's becoming quite the artist. Yep, that's ink pen on a tortilla.

And, yes she is trying to paint with her face here. That was fun to clean up.

She loves to hide,


and dance,
and dig,
and snuggle (well, occasionally she enjoys this),
and just be stinkin' cute!