Sunday Snippets

Our Week in Review

• The flowers in our front yard are just beautiful right now.  It's been raining and it is forecast that it will be rainy most of this next week so my flowers aren't as open or as brilliant in these pictures as they are when the sun is out.  But they'll have to do. I planted red begonias with bonzy red leaves and did a row of red petunia's behind that. I also stuck in some yellow marigolds and an orange hibiscus shrub, as well as a few azaleas (that are already done blooming). There are also red Gerber Daisy's, some sort of tropical red flowers, Indian Hawthorn, and the fig and lemon tree the previous owners planted.   Everything just goes so well together, I think it turned out so pretty!  Although it looks like I need to get out and weed!

 

 

• Home Depot had a spring version of Black Friday (the sale was a four day sale) this week.  I basically lived there this past week.  We picked up a ladder, sprinkler parts, potting soil, and tons and tons of flowers. I'm so close to having the backyard finished.  I just need to bite the bullet and spend a small fortune and get the 4 cubic yards of soil I need to finish filling the raised garden beds.  I also found a Moro Blood Orange tree there so I'm grabbing one of those too. 

• General Conference was so good! I feel so blessed to have the knowledge I do and I'm grateful for living prophets and apostles. 
• After pulling an all nighter I finally finished up my wall project I've been working on.  I need to go out and buy some more nails, I'll be painting the frames, and doing a little rearranging, but here's how it looks so far.

• Isaac was helping me plant flowers and dig up sprinklers outside Saturday night while daddy was at Priesthood.  He found a mud puddle and spent over an hour splashing and caking his body with mud.  Since he was only in a diaper anyways I wasn't too concerned, I figured it was keeping him busy.  The next thing I know he had stripped off his diaper and was standing there butt naked covered from head to toe with mud.  I shrugged it off and let him do his thing, it wasn't until I heard him open our fence gate and take off running to the front yard that I realized people might wonder about me as a mother.  Sure enough just about all of our surrounding neighbors were out watching my naked mud covered terrorist running wild.  Sigh. 
• I enlisted Alivia's help in keeping him in the backyard while I finished up and asked her to play with him for a minute.  After a minute or two of silence I turned around to see what they were doing when I realized neither of them where in the back yard.  Alivia had decided it would be easier to watch him inside the house so she let him in the house.  I cannot even begin to explain the M-E-S-S he made since he was still dripping with mud.  Lesson learned a naked mud covered two year old is BAD news.  
• I made a roast and threw in some rosemary (from my garden) while I cooked it.  It was so good!