Its finally Spring!!

Sorry, I've been a bit lazy about blogging. Easter weekend was great because Jenny came home with John and Charlie. John is getting so big! They actually stayed at our house that friday night because their flight got in pretty late - this was mostly uneventful considering the crazy dog, so our crib got its first (partial) use. I'm a bad aunt and didn't hardly take any pictures at all. But I did take a few with my crappy camera phone....here John is playing at Great Grandma's house.


This weekend was good because we finally got to do some yardwork. I spent a lot of time weeding my flower beds and cutting back dead branches. I planted a lot of daffodils and tulips last fall, and they are all blooming and beautiful right now. I love spring! See the cute dogs in the doorway? Lucy is harder to see since she's black; you can really only see the white of her chest.



Kevin finally got the garden tilled up, and planted some onions, broccoli, and cabbage so far. Of course only hours after the garden was tilled, it poured rain, and then the dogs ran through it.....my house is a mud pit.



Kevin made a new bed for asparagus! I LOVE asparagus, and he doesn't even like it...but he planted some for me. What a good husband.



I am fascinated by crazy unexpected colors in nature. We had a few trees cut down last fall, and one tree stump is growing the brightest orange fungus I have ever seen. I think it looks more fluorescent in real life than it does in the picture!


Seems like lots else going on, but not much worth blogging about. Yesterday morning I went with Jessica to watch Jackie run the half marathon downtown. It was very interesting....the race started at 7:00, and it was raining, and then we walked to see Jackie at the 6 mile mark and at the finish. Crazy Jessica ran to try to catch her around the 10 mile mark! There was no way my fat self was going to make that, so Allen and I just went to the finish line to wait. She did great, especially considering the disgusting weather!
I had a doctor's appointment today. The only interesting thing is that I'm measuring more or less normal now.....At my last appointment the doctor measured my stomach at about 29 weeks (when I was 24 weeks), and she said something like maybe I was having a moose. But today (at 28 weeks) I measured at 30 weeks....much better. Other things on the baby front.....Jenny helped me register at Babies R Us last weekend, and then Kevin and I went to Target on Saturday to register for some more stuff. Its impossible to know what we'll need though. I'm just most excited about the crib bedding. We've also been shopping for a dresser of some sort, and I wanted something oak that would match my rocking chair. My mom found an interesting posting on craigslist, and we went to look at it today after my doctor's appointment - and we bought it! Woohoo! Its a very different piece, which I'm sure we'll have forever. I'll have to take pictures once we get it in the house. But I'm excited to be done (I think....) as far as furniture goes.
Coming up this week - Lucy is getting spayed on Friday. Do girl dogs calm down after being fixed? Because don't they say that boy dogs do? I'm at least looking forward to a hopefully calm weekend for once.