ABC Eggs

I made Lilly some ABC matching Easter Eggs with stickers and modge podge. You match the capital and lower case letters together



Lillys Easter Lunch

Lilly eats lunch at school a couple times a week for "Lunch Bunch" and I surprised her with this when she went to get her lunch! Each egg is filled with a little bit of food! She was so excited when I picked her up and she was the hit of the classroom, even other teachers stopped eating their own lunch and came into her classroom to look and peek in her eggs! Ha, so funny! I will be doing it again tomorrow for her and when she gets home from school I will have a secret Easter Tea Party set up for Raley and her!



Hive

Look what was in our wall...! Creepy? Nahh, it was over 30years old. It is a paper wasp hive. My parents my gutted the bathroom, they wanted to redo the bathroom and after they found out there were problems with the bathtub they had to tear the bathtub out to fix the floor under the bathtub... anyways this was in the wall behind the bathtub. When my parents bought the house 30years ago they said it was really over grown that ivy was covering the back and even climbing in the windows and they think it was from then. Makes sense this thing was so fragile it crumbled as I held it. But its still pretty rad I think! I called my sister and told her and she rushed over because she wanted to see it too! I think the pattern in the chewed up wood ( the top of the hive) is so neat!

Bits & Pieces

 Whoooa, I am really late on this but I have had a lot going on so.. forgive me. But this was some of our spring brake 2 weeks ago.
 Pictures 1-3: St.Patrick's Day. The Leprechaun left a treasure hunt! With a hat of Gold Chocolate coins at the end. 4leaf clover hand prints. We had a green lunch with green bread even!
Pictures 4 &6: I took Lilly to a Dino exhibit
Pictures 7: Me working on a quilt, I will have a post about that soon!!
Picture 8-12: A trip to the zoo
Picture 13: My sisters new In Ground trampoline! I have been trying to talk my mom in one for almost 2years!! Its was not back filled yet in this pic.



Gardening Planning

http://www.smartgardener.com/

Good news and Bad news... Good news, I found this great site to help planning my garden.. Bad news I got hit with this "Vertigo Virus" and am laying in bed. My mom was doing yoga at the gym last week and could not get up and had to go to the ER and they told her it was a Vertigo virus, the virus you get messes with your vertigo,anyways She got hit really bad from it and had to lay flat on her back for 5days.. now I have it but not as bad. Good news, this site even uses the company where I buy all my heirloom seeds so I can put the exact seed in the "garden" online.. Bad news I have 6 beds that are 6'x6' and one 6x3 ( Last year I only had 2, 6x6 beds) annnnd I am already out of room in my garden and I still have not put all my Plants in my "garden"!! Holy Sheet, what's a girl to dooo!?

Check it out if you need planning and you can start planing your fall garden too. I know that is crazy to think about a fall garden already but the early bird gets the worm.. or time is money.. or.. I think I need sleep..

Have fun Friends!

Going on in the Greenhouse

Things are growing in the Greenhouse from Radishes and lettuce to Amethyst Basil and so much more

Oh yeah, I have big plans for those succulents like a growing wall!

Planting Seeds Part 1

We started our some of our seeds! By now most of them are started.. I still have some to start today and some I have to wait to start for a few more weeks like the "Watermelon Jubilee" and the "Banana American Melon" because they grow so large so fast and do not like cramped spaces! I seem to have a problem.. more of a sickness you could call if you will. I. Can't. Stop. Buying. Seeds. Today I bought a pack of seeds while at Whole Foods "Radish Easter Egg" seeds and a Sweet Potato to start. My sister has these same Radish seeds and already started hers but I think they will all get sold at the Farmers Market that we are doing this summer! So I got some to keep for my greedy little self! Yesterday I bought some more "Sweet Peas" and "Cypress Vine" seeds for the Trellis. The day before that... I told you, I need help..

Anyways in the pictures above, you can see how we are getting ready! I have been saving all sorts of planting containers from take out, Costco boxes, egg cartons, I still bought two garden starter kits with the tops because I was worried I would mess it up. So I started with the kits to keep my confidence up and put my more treasured seeds in those. Both the girls are really into gardening with me they filled the trays with dirt, put the seeds in and watered them. I also showed them the difference in the seeds. They loved that, being able to hold the seeds in there little hands and feeling them. Lilly especially loved the sunflower seeds because they all looked so different. The seeds above are pumpkin, broccoli, morning glory, and nasturtium. Some of the seeds require soaking a few needed to be soaked and filed down on the sides like the pumpkins. Then we covered them lightly if you do not have a dome then saran wrap will do but make sure it is not to tight. You want the humidity but you also want air circulation so loosely cover and make sure the seeds still can get air to breath. We also made our favorite snack, frozen bananas with a little bit of  peanut butter and a tiny bit of coco.