Lanscaping - 1

We have been looking into sprucing up the curb appeal of our house

and so been surveying things we would like to have/have done...

 

Like these colorful trees

 

These lovely island kinda landscaping...



 

getting a few professional estimates in the coming week

to help us decide

 

For now we are enjoying seeing everything come back to life in our yard...

 

 

Guess what my veggie seeds have germinated! :)

 

 

Mom to mom sales

Today we hit one of the big Mom to Mom local sales

this was after doing an inventory of her closet

and realizing that we do not have any clothes that fit!

 

So on the left we have clothes that won't fit in a while

and on the right are clothes that will last a few more months

as you can see left > right

hence the need to buy more clothes :)

 

This is the second time we hit this sale

the last time was before baby Z was born 

Here she is with the loot! and Miki checking it out

 

Not bad for 2.5 hours of shopping...

25 outfits + 7 sleepers + 4 pants + 6 headbands

all in really great shape, some still with their tags on

enough to get us thru the summer months and all for

drum roll....$87

That's less than $2.50 a piece...such a good deal!

 

Looking forward to having fun garage sailing this summer :)

Carrot Day

 We decided to get some carrots for baby Z to try...

turns out the unprocessed whole carrots only come in

a 3lb size quantity

 

So after using 2 carrots to make her food... 

 

there were enough carrots left to cut up to munch on...

 But that was not the end of the carrots

so decided to make a carrot cake

or cupcakes....





Not enough room in the oven so tried making the rest in the toaster oven

It came out great!

And there were too many for just two mouths

so froze half

 



And made some cream cheese frosting

for the rest

YUMMY!

Vegetable garden - 1

Here is baby Z watching dad mow the lawn

first of many times I am sure

...yaaaaay for spring!

 

We finally got started on the vegetable garden

after last year's failed attempts

I decided to not bother starting the seeds indoors and

decided to sow the seeds directly outside

I am probably too late anyways

Oh well...better late than never!

 

First the two shallow flower boxes that we bought

needed to be stacked.

 In order to do that we have to take a bottom off of one of the boxes. 



 



 Before deciding on where to place them

we covered the bottoms with wire mesh to prevent any underground intruders



 

Then we ordered a bunch of organic dirt...

    

While the cats just lazed around...

Baby Z was not very happy about having to wear her hat

and she has learned that throwing things and then reaching to get them is fun!



 

 

A couple more bags of compost and we were done with the soil 

 Then I painstakingly added irrigation to my beds

and then added some lettuce, green onion, tomato, carrots, chillies, peppers and cucumbers :)

  

    Now we will just have to wait and see

Hopefully something will grow :)

Baby Z....Fun in the sun

I have a total of 6 blogs to post... yikes!

they have just been piling up...not enough time in my day or night :/

 

Just going to post this one for now

cause it's the easiest

just pics no explaining needed :)

will post the rest in a day or two ;)

ENJOY!