Blossom by Blossum Spring Begins

Last weekend, because it was snowing and raining, Dennis was so good to work on some inside Honey Do's for me. He took everything down off my shelf in the living room, dusted it and rearranged everything so that I could add a few things that I inherited up there. (How fun it is when a good friend remodels and passes things on!) Even though I almost burst into tears Sunday when I saw all the snow, by Monday night it had all melted and greened up the front lawn. Spring is officially here and what is more important, this week, it's acting like it.

I noticed that we had crocus' up. There were even enough of them for Khora to pick a bunch and give it to our neighbors! So with three amazingly sunny days this week I've built up a good amount of time spent outside with park trips, picnics, and yard work. Dennis has been busy too. He pruned our fruit trees and fertilized the lawn. We had our lawn aerated and we've been clearing out old weeds and getting our grow boxes ready. I'm planning to plant peas this week.

Yesterday we finally knocked out the project of repainting our front door frame. You know that is the one cheap thing you can do to fix up anything! It looks like we have a new front door! Check!!

What a fabulous week. I just LOVE spring!!!! I have been one happy camper. Amazing what a little sunshine on your face can do!!!

11 Years

I just had to post something about our anniversary. Dennis and I have now been married for 11 years. Usually for our anniversary we drop the kids off at grandmas and take off for a couple days, but this year it isn't working out until April. Sooooo, Dennis took the whole day off work just to be home, a sure sign that he loves me!!!!! We cleaned out the van and with the Afton and Khora drove to Pleasant Grove to pick up a new dresser. How romantic, I know, but it's a practical thing to do since he was off work and that's pretty much Dennis and I. The only thing I asked Dennis for this year was for him to get my wedding ring fixed. I haven't had it for 8 or 9 months now. (I smashed it between a shovel and rock last summer and couldn't get it off my finger without some effort.) Apparently it was a super easy request that took all of 5 minutes and he got it cleaned too. In a couple months I'll get it resized, when I'm not all puffy and swollen anymore.

Dennis and I went to the temple that night to do sealings, which has also been an anniversary tradition of ours over the years. It was so nice to be there together. Of course the dinner before and the ice cream after wasn't bad either. Chocolate!!!!! YUMMMYY!!!

I'm not big on the mushy stuff so I'll spare it here, but I love you Dennis! Happy Anniversary! Here's to another decade together!

Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday. The kids had a blast because it was a "Family Day" off school so we all got to play instead of do work. I tried to get some more of my scrapbooking done, but didn't get too much done. I had to go to the hospital so that I could have my RhoGam shot. It took a lot longer than I thought for the paper work and just to get blood drawn and then I had to go back again to get the actual shot. Not exactly what I wanted for my birthday. I did treat myself to some scrapbook supplies though to make up for it, which always makes me happy.

Dennis got off work early and came home and he took me out to dinner. After that we looked around the book section of the DI. It was good to just be together, which doesn't happen much. I could have spent a lot longer browsing, but we had to get home and play some Mario Cart (gift from the kids) and eat strawberry shortcake. It was fun playing together I don't usually get too involved in video games so it was a specially occasion indeed. Dennis and I stayed up and watched 2012 which isn't my first choice of movie since I'm not a big fan of end of the world movies, but it was pretty good I will admit.

So I had one play day and today I've been organizing and cleaning up in the school room which has been "The Cave" for some time now. It feels good. Boy it sure doen't take much to make a birthday special anymore. Thank goodness I'm easy to please!

Space Derby

This year in Scouts the boys made rockets for the Space Derby. It's good looking back, mostly because I know that we'll never have to do that one every again! Here they rotate so every scout gets to do a rocket, boat and car within their cub scout career. It took a long time to wind up their rubber bands, (Jacob has multiple cuts on his knuckles from the propeller getting away from him.) not to mention all the mechanical difficulties we had with two rockets and six rubber bands, Dennis and I were both working on one of them all the time it seamed. The rockets are a bit more work than the other derby projects and we won't have to do with again. Yea!!

Jacob and Isaac just had fun anyway, their rockets actually moved. They got awards and ribbons and we all had a pretty fun night.

Isaac named his rocket "Zeus", it was pained red and blue with a lightening bolt on it and Jacob's was called "Stars to Mars" with blue body accented with a comet tail and stars across it. They were kind of silly by the end of the night, but I was grateful they at least let me take a few pictures of them both.

Our pack leaders were awesome and did a lot of work preparing for this meeting. Our pack leader has even been nominated for Pack Leader of the Year. We're lucky to have her. She's great!! Dennis has even been put in as Weblos Leader by default which Jacob is excited about. It's good time spent.

Light & Shadow

Ok I posted earlier that I was going to post some of the pictures that I'm taking for the Photo club I'm in. Here is one that I thought was a lot of fun. This might be pushing the theme of shadow and light since there really aren't shadows, but all I kept thinking about was black (shadows) and white (light) and the piano keys on our piano. I also wanted to take the pictures in BW mode since I've never done that before, I've always just changed it in PSE.

As I was taking these pictures I began to noticed how dirty our piano was. I think there is probably someone who's said it better, how you start seeing things differently through the lens of your camera. Well I did. Had to stop and clean the piano before I could finish.

I haven't finished the scrapbook page for this one yet. But I'll post that as soon as I do.