New Neighbors

London is hoping for some new neighbors

Who wouldn't love to live in this "rainbow" birdhouse

We check it almost daily

no new neighbors yet

hopefully soon

Bloomin'

 Just a few of the flowers bloomin' at our house

 peonies from Grandma Velvick

 knock out roses

 columbine

 carnations

 mouse ear coreopsis

the climbing rose that will NEVER die

this rose is probably as old as the house

we have dug it out several times

Russ' comment this year "if it wants to live that bad I will leave it alone"

Everything is looking great this year

planted 6 more perennials

more pictures to come as they bloom

Butterflies

 We've had a lot of little butterflies around this spring

London was very determined to catch them

They are very quick and tricky

Finally, she caught one

I thought she won the lottery the way she was hollering

this little guy was in no hurry to leave

I remember running through the neighbor's pasture trying to catch butterflies

it was always an accomplishment when you caught one

We caught  Monarch, Yellow Tiger Swallow Tails,  pretty black and blue butterflies

joys of summer

Pansies

This bucket of pansies has sat here since September 2011

London picked this out last fall when we got some pumpkins

I left them alone since they were fall colors

winter came - didn't want to take the time to toss them out

never watered them

nothing

just let them sit all winter

And now look at them

beautiful

full of blooms

they actually bloomed all winter

I wish I would of taken a picture when they were sitting in snow

Easter 2012

My parents were able to join us this year for Easter

They were on their way back from Arizona to Ohio

We colored eggs

This year it was very "painful" for London to cooperate in taking Easter pictures

You can see that in this picture (I had many others like this one)

So, I moved on to something a little more sweet

I made the girls' dresses and headbands

they looked adorable

We hide eggs 4 times

Does anyone else have a  family who does that?

Twice for London

Once for mommy

and one more time for Nana

those poor eggs!

Post

I have been delinquent in posting

just too many other things going on in life

it is hard to decide what to do first during "my time"

I have a lot to post and hopefully will get that done in the next week

Quick post before I pick up Kennedy (10 minutes)

I love my older daughter 

you never know what will come out of her mouth

sometimes I don't understand her way of thinking

Easter weekend - we were peeling hard boiled eggs

she wanted one to eat when we were finished

mind you, she hadn't had one in a very long time

I asked if I could cut it,  no

I asked if she wanted anything on it,  no

she skipped out of the kitchen

A few minutes later she came into the kitchen

all excited "Mom"

what?  I replied

"Look - there's cheese in the egg"

She was showing me the center of her hard boiled egg!

I explained that wasn't cheese but the yolk - etc etc

London replied  "well, it sure tastes like cheese"

Gotta love this little girl!