Friday, April 16, 2010

Spring is here!

Finally! We are able to get outside and play! After such a long and cooped up winter, the kids are thrilled to be outside. We are working on our yard, purchasing a new wooden swingset for the kids, and building a new playground. It's the season for sandboxes, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, and slip and slides! It's been so much fun working on the yard with Darius. Dad even came up and helped with his tractor, smoothing out the side yard.
The cows have been put back out to pasture, which thrills Selah to no end. Here she is watching them come down the hill behind our house and yelling at them. Adah is convinced that all the "baby cows" are hers. Thanks, papaw. :)
The apple trees are blooming! We hope to do better this year than last with the apple and peach trees - they started off really good but something happened - bugs or something and all the fruit died. We'll see what happens this year!
I love the simple joys spring brings; making wishes on dandelions, everything turning from the boring grays and browns to a sweet smelling green, with pinks, purples, and yellows thrown in by God for some extra pops of color. :)
Bailey helping daddy with the tractor, moving dirt. That little guy can really drive! I'm so thankful for the things this spring has brought us. We've been so blessed. We found out a couple of days ago that we're having another boy! No names picked out yet.
Well, its off to more organizing, cleaning, and enjoying this wonderful season! Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Friday, April 9, 2010

On the move

Spring has sprung here at the Walker house! I am finally feeling better and getting more productive! I suppose I've been "nesting" all morning, I've had the urge to re-arrange and move stuff... (sorry, dear!) We are working on our flower gardens, we got some stone to build small retaining walls to replace the landscaping timbers. Bailey's playing Upward soccer and loving it! He's on a team with his little buddy and they are so cute! The girls just turned 2 and 4 and are wild as boars! :) They had a nice pink birthday party and were blessed to have wonderful friends to celebrate with. Today ends spring break for Roane county - the weather has been absolutely wonderful all week until today! Papaw and Bailey are out hunting for mushrooms at the moment - I hope we get enough to dehydrate some this year! Most of my seedlings I started indoors have died (my thumb is SOOO not green!) But I'll just start them again outdoors when the weather breaks. One week till we find out if our little peanut is a boy or girl.. then we can start really planning!! So things sure have been hoppin' here... hope all is well with all of you! :)