David's Dumptruck

It is so great that David loves to play outside. He will play with his truck, the chickens and anything else interesting out there for hours. When we are out there working in the garden it is works out quite well to have him entertaining himself within sight of us.

Puddle Ducks

With spring coming and snow melting comes mud and mud puddles. Our ducks have been loving the puddles. They are quite cute as the run around to all the puddles!

Our Hoophouse

We are so excited to have a hoophouse this year for growing vegetables in! We put it up about ten days ago. As you can see from the pictures there was still quite a bit of snow left then, now it is mostly gone. We have some lettuce plants and Chinese cabbage plants growing in there now. Later in the spring we will be putting in tomatoes and cucumbers. We think having the hoophouse will be a big advantage to us this year.

Putting up the hoops

All up and ready to go

Preparing the ground

About a week later, most of the snow is gone now

Lettuce

Chinese cabbage

Grandma Kay

November 11, 1927 - February 19, 2011

My Grandmother passed away a few weeks ago. She was my grandmother on my Dad's side. We were able to fly down to California for the funeral. I was so glad we were able to come. I have many special memories of time spent with Grandma. Here are a few photos of her throughout my life.

Me as a baby with Grandma Kay. 1984

Grandma Kay and I, May 1987


Grandma collecting the eggs while visiting us in Montana.Summer 1989


Fourth of July, 1990


Grandma with Melissa and I, September 1991


Grandma and I at an Italian restaurant for my birthday. January 1992


Grandma and Grandpa. Grandma's birthday 2000


Easter 2003


Thanksgiving 2004


Christmas 2004


Thanksgiving 2010. I was so glad we had a chance to see Grandma last Thanksgiving while in California. I haven't had the chance to see my grandparents as often since getting married, so it was special to see her and to get to introduce David to her.

Garlic Is Yummy!

David loves some foods that seem strange for children to like. He loves garlic cloves raw! He likes anything pickled; beets, green beans, cucumbers, even pepperoncinis! He likes sauerkraut.
Andrew got a book all about garlic from the library. It has lots of beautiful photographs of garlic in it. David likes to look at it with Andrew. He points at all the pictures and says Mmmmm.

Staples

Andrew had his third and final surgery on Friday morning. It went well and he is recovering nicely. We are getting ready to go home this morning. We are excited about that!
This time Andrew got staples put in instead of just stitching. It looks interesting.

Cupcakes

The Red Barn

On the Phone

David has really started enjoying the phone lately. He always liked pushing the buttons, but now he holds it up to his ear and pretends to talk. When Grandma is on the phone he doesn't really say anything just listens. He just started bringing his books over to show Grandma over the phone though! It is quite cute to see him holding his book up to the phone. I will have to try to get a picture of that soon.

So Tired