Spring has finally Srung....

After a dreadful and LONG winter, I do believe that Spring is FINALLY here! Yeah! Unless Mother Nature is playing a cruel cruel joke on us, as she already has a few times these past few months. But I think that its safe to say that Spring has arrived and I've been busy this week....gardening! Yes, that's right, I started a garden! It was something that I really wanted to do last year, since we had just bought the house, and it has a beautiful back yard. But with a 4-5 month old, and working full time last spring, it just didn't work out. I really wish I would have taken pictures of the whole process, so you could really see how MUCH I have been working on this thing, but let me tell you:

• 2 weeks ago my dad and I built a garden box- 6x10 feet. And when I say my dad and I, I really mean, my dad. I would jump in every now and then and hold something for him, so he could hammer or saw. But I did do all the weeding and clearing out of the area!


• Then, I borrowed their truck, went down to the dirt store and bought a yard of dirt. Since our fence doesn't have a gate into the backyard, I had to haul the dirt by little wheelbarrows full into the garden box, from the truck in the garage. (this was Tuckers favorite part)
  

  

  
  
  

  I meant to take a picture of the box at this point, when it was half full, but I must have forgotten!

• So...finally on Saturday, I went to the garden store and bought:

A Tomato Plant

Cilantro

Red Onions

Walla Walla Sweet Onions

Green Beans

Sweet Peas

Baby Carrots

Corn

• And Woala...Here it is... my beautiful creation! :) If you can't tell, I am very proud of this! :) I have about two rows of each veggie and I'm going to put the row of corn in that little space between the box and the fence, I just haven't done it yet!
  

  

• So then on Sunday, I made these cute little cards to name all of the veggies I had planted:

I forgot about the fact that once I watered the garden, which was immediately after I put the name cards up, that they would get destroyed. I will have to make some more and laminate them:

So that's the story, it might not seem like much to you domestic divas/gardeners, but I have to say, that it was a lot of work, and I'm so excited for the fruits (or veggies in my case) of my labors. Lets just hope I don't kill off everything in the garden, and come up empty handed.

In other yard news, the beautiful flowers that bloom every spring have finally come up and they are so pretty! I love them because I don't even have to do anything, they come up and hide, well distract from, our hideous fence! ( You would think that since my husband works for a fence company, that our fence wouldn't be such an eyesore.... but we're working on that, and hopefully this summer, we'll be getting a new one installed.)

Ok, one last pic of Tucker. I had to share this one, because its so cute of him. Note the car in hand... Anyway, yesterday we were off to a 'cinco de mayo' fiesta and I was in the bathroom getting ready and Tucker walks in with Bens shirt on. He was literally running all over the house in it, and it was hilarious, he looked like a little Oompa Loompa just floating over the floor because you couldn't see his little legs going, just him gliding. :)