Week 26, 2012 Highlights!

I  now 27 weeks pregnant; Sweet Pea is grasping the fact that there is a baby in her momma's belly. Of course all babies need to be fed so she grabs a bottle, lifts up my shirt and says "I feed baby" and proceeds to stick the bottle in my belly button!

Maiden Voyage 2012

A few weeks ago we took our boat out on the lovely St Croix river. This is a place where I grew up: swimming, caking myself with mud and pretending to be mud monsters, collecting algae (and lots of it) becuase my brother said we could earn a lot of money making soap out of it, sharing laughs, jumping off the back of the boats and just generally having a great time.

Sweet Pea: 4th generation on our boat and future fisherwoman. When asked what kind of fish do you want to catch she responds "woweye". AKA the ever elusive walleye.

Can't be on the river without good company

Then there is the nature that kept flying into our boat:

First catch of the day:

I grew up with Twizzlers and Tootsie Pops on the boat; Sweet Pea gets Sour Patch Kids and Blow-Pops

Nothing like the rocking waves to soothe a toddler to sleep:

All smiles after nap time:

Another great family outing in the boat. We'll have to do it again very soon. Someone is getting the itch to do some fishing.

my garden

Yay! Another post...thank you nap time. I was able to get into the yard this morning and take a couple pictures of the beginning of my garden this year. I have a lot of weeds to take care of, but I will get there. Enjoy!

Here is a beautiful yellow tulip

 An Anenome Snowdrop.

 Yes, here is one of the nasty dandelions that I will be pulling out very soon.

 One of my clematis vines.

 The power of nature. This asiatic lily pushed right through this leaf.

 My Gold Heart bleeding heart.

 A heuchera-I wish I could remember which one it was...

 All my hostas are up and full except the Hosta Patriot.

 My parents gave me a Jack in the Pulpit last year. I was afraid it would not come back but here it is!

 Another Heuchera-Yeah, another one I can't remember, but the leaf color is intriguing.

 The raspberry bush (ok, there are only two canes) from my sister-in-law.

 Our Hat Trick apple tree. A budded apple tree that carries three varieties. Unfortunately, half the buds have died so I am going to espalier a Honeycrisp tree right on top of it.

 It looks like just weeds, but really it is all poppies. I can't wait for them all to bloom.

 I cannot wait for these peonies and iris to bloom.

 Some beautiful and super smelly lillies. I can't remember which ones these are either...

 The corner garden. I need some more sunflowers along the short fence this year. In front there will also be a water feature by the end of the summer.

I had to have this plant when I saw it in the new varieites! Sedum Thundercloud! Sounds impressive huh, but this little guy stays close to the ground.

 The first plant that I HAD to have! Hydrangea Great Star, just wait till you see pictures of these flowers!

 Good bye dandelions! The front yard is about half cleaned out.

Front garden. I love my Euonymus tree!

Hooray for spring!

I'm here for your humor...

I have always felt that I am the one that keeps people positive. Heck, my whole softball team started saying "put on your positive pants" because of me. I know that some days those positive pants can fall off so you need those big hefty suspenders to hold them up. Without further adieu, here is a little snippet to get you to smile and maybe pull up your positive pants a bit higher today.

This morning was like any other. Sweet Pea did not want to get out of bed. I could not find clothes for her to wear. Her hair was a tangled mess, but we mangaed to get in a good morning snuggle. As I rushed to the door to get on my shoes Sweet Pea made sure to give me a big hug and proceed to tell me to give Daddy a kiss goodbye. Well, I put on my winter coat and out the door I went.

I got into work just on time (like usual) and started up my computer. My boss came over and chit chatted about her upcoming ice fishing trip this weekend and then went back to her desk. My other co-worker came over and started chit chatting about what, I can't even remember. Now this is where it gets funny. I'm sitting at my desk feeling like my collar is awkward so just as I go to adjust it my co-worker comes in close, looks at my shirt, grabs the tag and says Oh my! your shirt is on inside out!!! Ha, so now that you have had a good chuckle I hope you can have a better day. I'm just glad that i did not have any BIG meeting to go to or something right away in the AM.

Here's to making your day a bit brighter-I'm here for your humor :)