Gardens Galore

While my mom was here Chad and I were able to put in a new garden. We already have 3 large barrels filled with sprouting veggies, but I thought since we are outside so much- and had some extra space that we should try our hand at growing a few more things. I didn't know if Chad would be interested, but he liked the idea and made it even better than I imagined- Chad got the awesome log border idea while shopping at Home Depot for soil and a watering system. In our barrels are carrots, green onions, potatoes, garlic and banana peppers. In our new garden we planted strawberries, cilantro, yellow onions, watermelons, celebrity and early girl tomatoes and green beans. We also planted sunflowers all along our back retaining wall. We are having lots of fun watering and checking every day to see if anything new has grown. Hopefully my thumb will get greener as the summer rolls on and we will have lots of yummy foods to eat!

Carrots in a barrel.
Sunflower popping through.The new garden.
Close up.

Cabin Fun

We went up to Mimi and Papa's cabin this weekend and we had a great time! The weather was beautiful, the food was good and the company was amazing!

Brother screen fun.
Fresh air.
Adventuring!
Calon is so happy!
Mimi and Cal.
The Pine Cone war begins....
Steve and Kes vs Chad.
Now Kes switches teams and tries to get Papa.
Cal was grouchy, but loves to flip- oh, the inner emotional turmoil- laugh or continue crying?
Cabin fun= dirty bottom boys.
Keston discovered GI Joes while there.

All tuckered out.

Grammy Time

My mom, Grammy, was able to come spend a 10 days at our house while she was recuperating from surgery. She had to take it easy but we still had tons of fun! Our family decided to meet Ina and Steve at their cabin 2 days after she was going to leave, so instead of flying home she stayed longer and went with us to Show Low, AZ and drove home with them from there. We love you Mom!!

On the Carousel, at the mall, before we go see Monsters vs Aliens.
weeeee!

Gotta get a gumball for the movie too!Make that 2 gumballs!Contemplating which tattoos to put on.Grammy brought suckers for everyone- Calon double fisted his.Target practice at the cabin.
Pine cone ammo ready.
Grammy got a bulls eye!
Cute!

Auto Show

We just went to this year's NM Auto Show- we've gone every year since we've lived here. Chad loves it and so did the boys- I see many many years of auto shows ahead. Here are some pics...

They loved getting in all the cars...and trucks.
Trunk boy.A race car like on Cars!!
Kid car area- Kes is a great driver. Fastest and safest one out there!Keston got a little 'tudy toward the end....
and had to have a little time out....it didn't last long though, then onto a photo with "the judge".
Calon practicing his new climbing skills- wanted to get all the way over, I had to dive in to save him- huge bruise on my hip from landing on some weird piece in the back- thank you Calon.
Here's a pic of Kes going down the slide at Hoot's a couple days before.
Cal at Hoot's too.And one last pic of Cal giving Kes a ride- they take turns- they are so cute!

Hoppy Easter!

We had a great Easter! It was too rainy to find eggs outside, but the boys didn't seem to care. Keston loved his new swords and loved popping the eggs open by stepping on them. Calon loved his new board books and taking all the eggs Kes found out of the basket. We had dinner with our friends/neighbors, which was really fun and delicious. It was a good day. Here are a few pics as well as a few from today when we had another egg hunt outside and some from a week or so ago when it was actually warm enough to swim one day!

Backyard Makeover

We have finally redone our backyard!! Our yard was landscaped when we bought it in zeroscape- which is fine for some people, but for us it was awful- no comfy place to play for the boys. It also had a large slope at the back that was covered in rock that made half our yard unusable. Now that the weather has been nice we finally have fixed it to be what we want. We had a retaining wall put up in the back to give us more unusable space, we pulled out some awful bushes, took out 3 yards of crusher fines, we made a little play area for the "castle" and we laid sod!!! Hooray grass!! Most of the credit goes to Chad- he is such a good worker- really Chad rocks- except for the retaining wall he has done everything else. Thanks Chad!!

We went in the back so seldom before we have no before pics, but here are the afters- we still want to put in some trees on the sides and more bushes up top, but here it is so far...

Calon Walks!!

Well, Calon didn't want to be rushed into walking- we thought he'd walk by 11 months, then he learned to speed crawl and lost all interest. He would hold up his legs in protest if we tried to hold his hands to get him to walk. He has cruised for months and even taken 2-4 steps from me to Chad or Keston, but nothing on his own. But on Sunday I was on Chad's laptop at the kitchen counter and the boys were on the "castle" (20 ft away) and out of the corner of my eye I see a toddling Calon, with Graham crackers in both hands walking over to me- so cute. We got some videos from his first day walking and some videos of him walking to Keston ( his favorite person to walk to) that I am putting on here. I'm sure it will take a few weeks for crawling to become obsolete, but he is well on his way- Yay Calon! He seems like such a big boy now.