Wednesday Mornings

Jon is taking a class this summer in the morning and luckily we have been able to successfully work out babysitting for  Danny. It is actually pretty awesome because family is watching him the whole time. We weren't able to find anyone for Wednesday morning, but my work was ok with me coming in late so I could watch him for the term. This morning we hung out at home and took some pictures. We went outside to check out the garden and Danny enjoyed playing in the dirt and being outside.

This is one of my peppers and my tomato plant. I took the wall of waters off them because I thought they could use the sun. I hope the tomato does ok because as you can see it is kind of in the shade of a tree in the morning.

 My little peas are also growing nicely. In this bed I planted the carrots, spinach and lettuce all of which are starting to put up little sprouts.

 The weeds in the backyard are growing quite nicely :) Actually I prefer the grass and dandelions to the nasty prickly things we had growing back there last year.

Since Halloween I've had these crates on the porch and have been trying to cute-sy up my porch with decorations in them. This is the summer version of my crates. I might have to dig something else up to go in the little red pot because those things that I pulled up aren't doing too hot luckily I have lots of weeds I could dig up and put in there.

I was thinking that I need to take pictures of more than just Danny, so I took some pictures of the daughter of the girl I visit teach. She is a real cutie, but most of the pictures were out of focus and really dark. I had to have Jon remind me how to use Photoshop to brighten these up a little.

 This may sound mean but I like the tears in this picture. Tears are a reality in life. 

 A girl in the ward made this little tu-tu, sadly there weren't any other pictures that showcased it well. 

 She probably has more hair than Danny does and I just loved it. It was so wild and adorable. 

Mommy always knows how to make things better.

Thanks again Gillian for letting me photograph your little girl!

Easter and the garden is in

I haven't put up the pictures I took of Danny from around Easter. Danny ate a lot of candy and called all of the Easter eggs balls. It was cute. 

I need to get the pictures from the night we did egg dying at grandma Ware's from Jennifer because we didn't bring our camera.

I have planted my garden out back and I'm hoping that things grow. I'll have to take some pictures, but I have planted a tomato, spinach, lettuce, peas, peppers, a honeydew melon, and a cucumber but the cucumber is looking a little weak. I did plant some strawberries out front and a bird has already eaten one of them. I need to figure out some way to keep the birds off them. I'll figure something out.

"I feel a blog post coming on"

The title of this post is a direct quote from Jon, and he was very correct. Before I get to that I need to do some catching up. I have been meaning to put pictures from Danny's Birthday up here since--his birthday. So we will start with that. 

 I think Danny liked his birthday and especially his birthday parties. 

 He was a big fan of the cake I made for him.

 Michael the house elf even helped clean up all of the cake Danny dropped all over the floor. 

 Danny is looking a little too intrigued by that candle.

 He tried to pick up the frosting with his fingers at first, 

 but that wasn't near fast enough. 

 He even shared a bite of cake with mom. 

 After having Christmas to practice Danny did pretty good with the presents. 

 Thanks Grandmas, Grandpas, Uncles, Aunts and Cousins for all the presents!

So Danny's Birthday was good and we all had a lot of fun. Now on to the not so cute reason that Jon said he felt a blog post coming on. As spring has started to get here my mind turns to planting seeds and growing my little vegetable garden. I decided that we should get some more dirt and compost stuff to add to our little garden boxes. We went over to the IFA and grabbed some stuff and then came home and started unloading. I thought it would be a good idea to find something to mix up our dirt ingredients in so I grabbed the wheelbarrow that was upside-down by the back porch and guess what I found when I tipped it over. 

Yeah, I kind of freaked out and told Jon to smash it. Rather than smashing it immediately he went and grabbed the camera and took some pictures. After taking pictures he smashed it and no one was bitten, but I have that nasty creepy crawly feeling and am worried about more spiders outside that did not get smashed. I think we might look in to having someone come and spray around the outside of our house, but I don't know how that works with having a baby. Blech. Well I guess we have a nasty spider to thank for finally getting me to put up the Birthday pictures of Danny; Nasty spider you did not die in vain.