Helping Daddy

Brad had to build one more privacy gate for our back yard fence before putting the house on the market, not to mention lay 4 truck-loads of sod, make some flower/bush beds, etc... So we had some amazing friends who actually traded our car with their pick-up for an entire week so we could get a lot of this work done. Here is Annalise proudly helping daddy unload the wood for the fence.

Trip #1

Trip #2

...still going

time for a refreshing drink!

Yay!! all done. LOVE it!

First Thing In the Morning

This is Annalise, first thing in the morning. She always comes crashing through our door to see if we are still in bed. Sometimes yes, sometimes no... Then she quickly comes to my side as she repeats "mama, mama, mama" over and over as many of you know! So she climbs up my side of the bed and wriggles inbetween daddy and mama. This morning I couldn't help but laugh! Where did she get this cottonball hair? not mama! We think it is from the Carley side of the family(brad's mom's side). It is so funny! Take a look.

Front view seems normal...




And then the CRAZY backside!!

First Flower Pots

For our 4-year Anniversary my mom took me to Helten Garden's a local greenhouse and bought enough flowers to fill these three whiskey barrels on my porch. I really wanted something to freshen up the front of our home for the selling season this summer. I have NO green thumb so my mom's knowledge on kinds of flowers and how to pot them was extremely helpful!

Here is Annalise helping. She picked up every flower and brought them to us to pot. She LOVED the dirt and especially liked watering the new flowers.

Here is the final product. We did so many different flowers I can't remember all the names. But I did do color themes. Pink and yellow in two of the pots and then a Red, purple, and white for the third. It's been a week and they are all still alive! Yay!

GRATEFUL

First of all, I really do not have the hang of this blogsite set up. These pics are in the wrong order, but anyway

back in january

I had a clever idea to take pics

of Annalise with all her fun Christmas gifts which we are grateful for. Then print the photos and mail them to the people who gave her the gifts. Needless to say, we only got through a few gifts before burn out tiredness hit as in the pic to your bottom right. And, who am I kidding? Time to print them and mail them? Crazy mommy idea I guess. SO all that follows are the pics I got. Annalise got into a CRAZY giggly mood that day over the "Thank You" paper thinking it was a game to step on or take down the sign before mommy could snap the pic. Thanks to everyone for brining a little joy to our family life!