Hey, Big Belly!

Okay, I finally gave in and took a pregnant belly picture... I am looking so fat... but whatev. Hope you all enjoy it. And sorry for the quality, we're still stuck using our phones as cameras, so it's not too good.

Also, As I mentioned in my last post, we've been helping my grandma in her yard. Here are some pictures you all probably don't really care about, but I'm pretty proud of. I did a lot of gardening, planting flowers, etc, to help my grandma's yard look pretty. You can't see it too well, but we put in an irrigation system in the garden in the back (and will in the others) so that all they have to do it turn on the water, and everything gets watered perfectly. I guess I'm so excited about these gardens because I really wanted to garden this year, and didn't have my own space. So I took over Grandma's. And, it's been getting really hard for me to do much, with my belly growing, and all my new aches and pains when I do too much... But I had fun! Again, poor quality pictures. Sorry!

Here, I planted an azalea bush to help balance the huge bleeding heart you see in the fenced area. Then some petunias, because Dave likes thouse, some snap dragons in the middle, and four bushes in the back, that will grow bigger over the years and really fill up the place and look nice.

Here they already had a bunch of things planted, but I added alyssum around the tree, planted some gardenia bulbs you can't see yet around the back on the top, and there'll be two rose bushes up there, too. The tulips and daffodils have already had their season, or else there'd be more to look at. But step gardens are fun, I think. Lots of ways to play with them!

And last, but not least (my favorite because there was nothing here to work around in the first place, so I got free range on it), I planted four pretty Wine and Rose Alexandrias, with white alyssum along the rocks. Simple, and very pretty. I feel bad you can't really see how good it looks. And ps, that's a veggie garden in the back along the fence.

It's been a long time comin'

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I finally decided to catch up my blog :) So since St. Patty's Day, Josh and I have been up to a bunch of stuff. I only have a couple pictures, because our camera is still packed away, but I plan on taking a few more this week, and will add them along with further announcements, so keep coming back to see what I've added.

This is (from left to right) Mariah, Gabe, and Miranda, Josh's younger siblings. For Easter, I like to color eggs. It's one of my favorite traditions! And as I sadly found out, Josh's siblings have never colored eggs...! I was shocked! So I started a new tradition for them :) We boiled and colored eggs together. It's also one of my things that you have to put your name and decorate one of the eggs just for you. They enjoyed that. I had to force Miranda to want to do it with us, but later she thanked me for forcing her because she actually enjoyed it. Who'd a thunk? And Gabe asked if we could do it again next year. Of course! It's a tradition!

This is a picture of a hole that Josh dug, then filled back up. To help give back a little to my Grandma and Dave for letting us live with them for a couple of months, we've been helping them do some projects in the yard. He dug a few holes for their new patio, filled them up with gravel, and then bricks are going to go on top. That man sure knows how to move dirt! I helped plant a couple gardens (usually when Josh didn't know so that he couldn't get mad at me for doing too much). We also put in an irrigation system in the back garden, and plan on doing one in the front before we move.