Home Made Fresh Yummo!

I lOVE Strawberries!!!! They are so good. Well I'm not talking about Ms. Strawberry Shortcake but my own berries that I grew all on my own. I have finally started getting large amounts of ripe berries. Did you know that when you fresh pick them and eat them they practically melt in your mouth like chocolate from the heat of the sun. I had no idea but they all taste amazing. I won't be able to make a pie cause I am eating them off the vine too many times during the day. They are so wonderful. So here are a few pix of my strawberries. Oh and yes don't forget to wash them after you buy them from the store, sometimes I forget, but mine had dirt all over them and you never know if the people wash them well enough.

Grow Baby Grow!

So our backyard is done, now I am just waiting for my little seedlings to grow nice and tall and thick to have a great backyard. But here are some pix as promised! Our river rock is really cool. Right now it has this like white powder stuff all over it but when it gets wet it is a ton of different colors like dark red blues and grey. I love it. Today it rained lightly and providing plenty of water for the grass seeds and my rocks looked awesome! YEA IT IS DONE!!!

Kudo Points for the MAN!!!

Matt knows my feelings about Mother's Day so he has officially re-named the day to Wife's Day! Here is what he sent me:

So all of you Ladies out there who have yet to have children, HAPPY WIFE'S DAY!!!

Landscaping Updates

Ok, so I am a little behind on things. I wanted to upload some pix of our current project that is still underway. We have been getting a ton of rain out here and that has hindered the project from being completed as quickly as we wanted. Well we have 2 of the 7 projects done, the concrete and the pergola are now finished. Everything else is half done.

The recital went really, really well. Everyone attending said said that is was a very wonderful evening. Our reception afterwards got canceled due to the aforementioned rain but it was overall a wonderful evening. We have 107 people attend so it was quite the turn out!

So here are some pix of the backyard I don't have any pix from the recital. Still waiting for some parents to send me some.

~My Butterfly Garden~

~Our Patio now feels so huge with the pergola over it. I will be putting a flowering vine over the top of it to help with the shade issues that Matt is concerned about. But I love it and it is a really nice addition to the house.~

~We had a visit from Mickey Mouse (in the black outline), who sadly didn't survive the destruction of our back hill. Bambi and Shrek's father-in-law has also paid a visit over the past week.~

Second Year

Today has finally come and will be such a wonderful day. Tonight is my Piano Studio's SECOND Spring Recital. I can not believe that it has already been a year since the last one but it has. My students have grown so much over the last year and it is amazing to see how much they have learned. Next year will be the year that some of my students will be playing the "real" stuff like actual pieces such as Fur Elise and such. I am so excited for tonight and to see how everything goes. Unfortunately there are 5 students who couldn't play in the recital, 4 because of a school commitment and the other cause she has been sick all week. So I will have 16 of my beautiful student's playing tonight. I am so excited for them. Good luck everyone!

WE HAVE BEEN...

The HOA committee has officially given their stamp of approval to ALL of our proposed landscaping plans! YEA! So we will get all of our projects done when my contractor aka my Branch President gets back in town from a wedding. More pix to come.

YEA!!

After almost 2 full days of waiting we finally got our approval for our landscaping, on most of the things. The hill, riverbed and pergola needed more clarification. I sent out modified stuff tonight with some pix on the Internet that I found to help show what I wanted but we are approved for the minor things and the patio. But today we already started most of the projects and will finish them tomorrow besides the patio which will be done next week. My contractor got a killer deal on the stone blocks for the flower bed edging. We will get a weeping cherry probably tomorrow and yea most of this will be done. I got fried today, me not wearing sun block what a shocker, anyhew I dug out the "mystery bushes" and dug their new holes and filled them in so I can proudly say that I did almost all of the project, the men moved them for me. Anyhew if I ever find the thingy to connect to my computer I will show you. Have a great night. Oh Happy Birthday, Jordan and Elizabeth! Love you!

**UPDATE**

Here are some pix of some of the projects that we started.

~The Allen Crop Circle~