Our Weekend

It has been non the less, a very busy but fun weekend. Friday started out, actually Thursday night, with helping Jennie's parents move into their new home. We got the POD unloaded in a few hours and then we were able to get some things put away. Friday night we went back over in the afternoon and helped some more. It is looking so good and it is fun to see them start a new chapter in their lives. We had two really late nights with the kids, but even so they still cannot sleep in. I don't know how they can do that.

Saturday morning Dave was able to get one of our many burn piles going and then left to go pick up a much needed riding lawn mower. He went to view it , from a craigslisting on Friday and made a down payment so we could wait to pick it up on Saturday. We had been waiting and watching the listings for a while now and we wanted one that the kids would be able to handle. Ethan is very excited and couldn't wait to start mowing.  We call it "little red". Our tractor is " big red". I know pretty generic but it will be easy for me, Jennie to remember.

Today was a big day too for Mia. She is officially a no training wheel bike rider. She is so excited. Sometimes a little to much and scares me as she goes so fast and crazy with her steering. She has been working on it this last week almost every day. Her bike is small enough that she could just touch the ground very easily and push off by herself. The boys helped her get started on Monday and took off her training wheels and were helping run along with her. That was so sweet of them and they were really an encouragement to her. They could keep up with her a lot easier then I could since they were so much shorter and didn't have to bend so far over for a long period of time. I had tried that one day with her and boy did it hurt. I'm realizing that I am not that young anymore as my body is hurting at things that it didn't use to a few years ago. That 30 year mark really starts to change things. Hmmmm!

Bees are buzzing and doing their business. Dave took some really neat pictures of the bees coming into the hive. You can actually see the pollen on their legs. So amazing. It has really been fun to learn more about them. I always thought that they were bad. But they are actually really nice if you don't hurt them.

Spring has started to come about. I love this picture of a tree that is in our front yard. It is a small weeping cherry tree with pink flowers. We took the saw and clippers to it a lot earlier this year. It needed some much needed pruning. I have a lot to learn about gardening and taking care of plants. I'm sure to kill some on the way because I don't know what I'm doing, but that is the process of learning things.

We also got a lot of other things accomplished.. Dave got a big tree stump taken out. That is huge. We got some more bushes either trimmed or chopped down, we found more garbage hiding in the bushes that we cut down, the ducks got lots of yummy worms, and we all got some fresh air.