new back yard

I finished my back yard project. (for now) after two weeks of laying sod, tilling the side gardens, and filling them with bark, my (half) project cost us $30.00! was a bargain. I guess it's worth the blistering toes and palms.
where the (junk) is, will be a continuous garden. All where the bark is will hopefully one day have trees to shield the neighbors beaming garden lights in the middle of the night, and some pretty bushes and flowers, but until I have more money, this is what I get.
Oh and the grass will continue were that mound of dirt is as well.


EXCITING!

IT's a BOY!

Josh finally fills like he isn't so female'd out anymore. We got us a new kitty. We still haven't given him a name yet, but I personally like Willow. Only for the fact that if he's lost Bridget and Josh will be yelling out "w-i-l-l-o-w!!!"
Not really, but I do like it.
I personally don't really care for cats, but it will hopefully help out with the field mice problems.
Bridget was very excited about getting a kitty, but not so much getting close to one. She is mainly concerned that he will "get" her SHOES.
The first day we brought him home, she would just look at him, not touch him, but now she feeds him his food by hand!

At least Joey gets a break! We took him to Bear Lake a few weeks ago and he just sat there while she dumped sand on his head. What a Trooper!

Memorial Day

Summer TIME!!!

We are very excited for all this warm weather! Bridget, mostly for the sake of popsicals, sandals, new sunglasses, and her frog pool!!! I filled it the other day, but it was too cold, so she would just crouch with her bum barely touching the water, then jump up.

I think she found the fan sprinkler more fun today. She didn't like when the drops fell on her, but she had a blast touching the streams with her fingers and toes.

Oh, what I would give to be a kid again!

Once again...

Yes. A girl who LOVES lipstick!

Laying it down,

YEAY!!!

So yes we did get it all in, and we ended up with a lot more than we thought, so it covered all but about 3 feet of what we wanted to do all together, however, we had to rake and pull rocks as we went since we had more than I have planned on. BUT, It's all but done now!

Hopefully we will get some rocks in this week around the patio-deck areas, and maybe the flower/tree gardens in sometime soon, and it will look more like a yard.

Progression in always exciting.

Sod

I had made the comment to one of our friends that I would like some sod (grass) for the back yard for my Birthday. So, that's what she decided that she wanted to do, so I made her call and ask about it. She wanted to do it last weekend.
Well let me tell you first. Josh had thrown out grass seed last spring, but morning glory and all sorts of weeds filled in, and we just kept mowing it down.
So in preparation for this new grass, there's a LOT of work to be done, and I took the day off today, because two days of raking and raking, and bad body mechanics, I found that it really hurts your back and wrists! ...unless I'm just old.
Heidi (friend) wanted to lay it Friday, um... today is Thursday, and I don't think it's going to happen this weekend either.... unless we just do one pallet at a time.
I have about a 4th of the space ready. (almost)

This is the small patch of leftovers that our neighbor gave us when he did his back yard last fall.

I could use some free labor! :)

Stinky

Ok, I know I tend to blog more than one thing in a day sometimes, but this one made me laugh.

I laid Bridget down for her afternoon nap after lunch. She usually just talks to her self and sooner or later falls asleep. Well today apparently she isn't tired. After a little while she is knocking on the inside of her door. "Mom? ...Mom...?" I open the door and she tells me "Poop, stinky" so yes. I had to change her dirty diaper. then I read her part of Curious George, and lay her back down. Maybe ten minutes later I hear her knocking on the door again... "Mom...?" then a little gibberish, I tell her through the door that it's nap time and time for her to lay down and go night night. Then she starts pounding on the door and trying to tell me that no, it's not nap time, and something else was wrong. I opened the door, then she runs over to grab the wipes again and trying to get a diaper down. I check to see if she is stinky AGAIN, but no, she was good. I asked what she needed, as I handed her the demanded diaper. Then Bridget turned and grabbed her Bunny out of her bed and said "stinky!" as she attempted to changed the bunny.



I guess it's not nap time.

Bag Day

Since Josh needed new fabric for his seat, Bridge, and I get to keep the other for domestic things.
Today while juggling Bridget grabbing scissors, dumping pins, and taking my thread off the bobbin holder and attempting to sew, I made her a little purse. It didn't turn out as good as I had imagined, but it's still fun for her.
I was going to make one for myself, but I don't think I can manage a "professional" look on my bag, so I gave up and just made Bridge, her own with purple stitching.