The Yard is coming together!

We have been trying to beautify our yard.
also the Garden had to have a Max fence!!!
I believe that my wonderful husband did a great job with the Max fence.
He has worked so hard in the garden and with the fruit trees.
I also replenished the flowers in the planters..
I could not pass up the Calla Lilli's!!!

Also Geraniums are my favorite.. My sister in law
has them in Urns on her front porch and I love them!!! They look so fabulous!!!!


The lawn is a work in progress, we were infested with CRABGRASS!! YIKES! We have tried everything from spraying them with weed killer to burning them with a torch! And still they live!!!
Also, we realized , by just looking at the green part.. that we kind of missed part of the yard! Ü
So , NO it isn't dying, just not fertilized properly!
My Sweetheart is trying something different this year, using soaker hoses for some of the garden, instead of the furrows that he usually does.

I am so excited to see the yard slowly coming
together. We had decided to redo some of the things that we had already done... I believe that if
we can figure out how to dig up one of our shade trees, we will plant it at Tom's.. We realized that 2 will make having a garden impossible when they are full grown...

We had let a bunch of weeds invade our garden last year, so this year we had to put a pre-emergent on it.. so everything has to be a plant, no seeds.. that is really hard!
We were amazed that Star nursery had corn starts!!
We just might try it?? Who knows...

We have planted Grapes besides the fruit trees. I think that they too will be years before we ever see any real crop from any of them. Ü
I would like to grow asperagress, but that takes years to get a good crop. We love them dipped in olive oil and then put on the grill!! But are soo expensive!! Maybe we will need to find a spot! Ü

We are trying to leave the middle for soccer or football or just a place for the boys and Max to run around and be crazy! Ü

Since it is still a work in progress, things still may change!
We will have to see how things work out in the next year or two..
We don't always have the real vision of thing at first..Ü
Usually it is my ideas that don't always pan out..Ü
I am not a visionary! If I had been, I would be rich by now!! HA HA HA

The weather has already frozen 9 of our tomatoes.. Luckily we have 6 more that we had not planted.. There is a storm coming on Wed. so I am guessing that we are going to wait this time
to plant those..Ü We just could not wait to push spring to come.
We were hoping that our excitement for good weather would influance the Weather. Ü
Saddly, we were wrong.. Good thing that it will be only about $5.00 to buy the rest of the tomatoes to replace the dead ones...

I am still crossing my fingers for SPRING!! Ü

15 year anniversary on March 25th

Fifteen years married Plus 2 years dating!!! How Lucky are We to have each other!!!

New pictures of Max

Max is the craziest dog that I have ever known!
In my reading they say that max is about 2 and will jump to his teen years next!
Who knew that we would get him in the terrible two's and then jump to the teen years!! YIKES
No wonder people take their dogs back or to the pound! HA HA
I know that it did cross my mind with each of my kids as they went through the same stages. Ü
I already have a 13 year old, I really don't need another one!!!
It is a good thing that he is sooo Cute!
I am sure that is why everyone comes in small packages!
You know how shoes are always better looking in really small sizes and as you increase the size,
they seem to loose something!!
All I can say is that he better stay small! HA HA HA

We really do love him...
I just have no skill at potty training him!!!

I am praying that he will just eventually figure it out himself! HA HA HA
Kind of how the kids did!!!! Ü

Just pray for us! Ü

I believe that he was to come to our home to bring laughter!
I find that we are always laughing at him and his antics..
Some how he has not figured out that he is a small dog!
So he will grab something in his mouth and almost get flipped over due to it's large size and his small size.. He really could keep my Husband laughing all day long!

So I guess we will just have to keep him!

Max Is HOME!!!!!!!!!! Ü

We are so happy to say that Max is back with us!!

I believe that dropping him off was one of the hardest things that I have ever had to do!!!

The pictures are old ones.. I haven't had a chance to take a picture of him since I have been feeling YUCK most of the day! allergies!!! YIKES
New ones will be posted tomorrow! Ü
The first thing I did after bringing him home,
after he had a good romp in the yard...
A big Bath!!! I am sure that they took very good care of him, but for some reason, I felt that he was flea ridden! HA
So.. a bath it was! He sure is fluffy when he is clean!!
His hair has grown even more while we were gone.
We had to trim around his eyes!
He has been very clingy also..
But is getting back to his old self! Ü

We are all glad to be back together!

Monday In Tucson

We stayed a little while longer than usual so that My Father In-Law could go on the Boneyard tour.
I hope he Loved it! I thought it was very interesting! Worth the ride.

Sunday in Tucson

Sunday started Early!
With Church starting at 8:00 AM..
My Niece, who is getting her Personal Progress Medallion in the Pictures, was talking in Sacrament. She did such a fabulous job!!!!!
Quite a public speaker!

She also did a Great job that evening, presenting her projects! What a Great Girl!
We could all learn from her and her goal setting!

My cousin S.G.P. was also there to Cheer my niece on! That was nice to visit with her also.

Second Day In Tucson!

We Went to see the Diamondbacks play the Royals for their Spring training.
It was very exciting till it got so hot we thought we would melt! HA HA HA
We are all sunburned!!!!
All the Boys had to buy Diamondback hats!!! Ü

That night we had a Great party at my Brother's home.
His Wife always does things up nice!

First day In Tucson!!

Here we are the first day in Tucson!
We arrived around 2:30 and wanted to take a bus tour at the Pima air museum but were too late.
The Bus was already full.
So we bought tickets to see the museum instead.
That was to be the next day but since we were already there...
My Father In-Law Loved the place..
We stayed till they kicked us out!! Ü

The boy's and I were able to visit my Brother and his family today also..It was Good to see them!

We have been up since 4:AM and we had had it!