weekend wrap-up…

Friday was Abby’s last day of Kindergarten and they had such a great day! They had a big party and watched movies all day. Sweet girl. I can’t believe she’s in 1st grade now! I took half a day off work, picked her up from school and we headed on out to Dad’s for the [...]

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Saturday fun…

Friday was great. We had the Hershey’s Bliss House Party at our house (I’ll explain more later), but Saturday was great! We did tons of stuff and had fun all day. Saturday morning, we had Abby’s soccer game. Afterwards, we went to the Waffle House for breakfast (the girls’ FAVORITE place to eat) and came [...]

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Dear sweet across-the-street neighbors:

You are our favorite neighbors! You let us come swimming in the summer and you give us tons of advice about all sorts of things. We sincerely apologize for the way our yard has been looking lately. It’s a shame that we spent all that money on it last summer and the weeds have OFFICIALLY [...]

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couple of updates…

Here is what my seedlings look like now! I’m excited. They’ve all sprouted and I’m toughening them up so that we can move them to a pot outside. I guess I’ll have to keep them on the screened porch for a while though – until it’s warm enough to put them outside 24-7.

And (drum-roll please)… [...]

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my first garden…

Since all of our trees got blown away last year in the tornado on March 1st, we have TONS of sun in our (newly landscaped) yard… and I intend to take complete advantage of it. I’m going to try my hand at growing various herbs and vegetables in pots this year.

I settled on my favorites [...]

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