So Delicious Organic Ice cream = BEST EVER!

The title says it all. This stuff is the best! If you have not tried it, you should. It is so creamy and chocolatey! I want to eat the whole container but I did limit myself. That way I could save more for later. There really isn't much more I can say about it other than it's fantastic!

Garden Planted

Saturday was by far the best day of the week! Louis came over in the morning to help out with the garden and we had so much fun the whole day. We laid down bricks to make a border for the garden area. It seperates the plants from the walkway. He also helped me mix the soil with the plant mix I got at Costco. I planted my vegetables and strawberries yesterday. Now I just have to wait.

Then Louis and I helped my parents put gravel into the dog potty yard. The gravel was in the driveway and we had to haul it around the house to the backyard. It was a lot of hard work but totally worth it. Here is a picture of me while working hard.

We got done around 8 pm, had dinner, then watched some of "The 10th Kingdom". If you haven't seen that movie it's really good. It's 8 hours long so you had to be ready to either watch it on a day you're not doing anything or watch it in parts. Louis told me he really liked what he saw so far.

I found WHAT in the Garden?

Yesterday I was out working in the garden pulling up weeds. Since I plan on planting on Saturday, the whole area needs to be cleared out. I was moving some wood out of the space(I didn't put it there my father did) and I lifted up a large wood board. I expected to find lots of bugs, slugs/snails, worms etc. under it, but I was shocked at what I found. Here is is:

That's right-it's a bird nest! I am really happy and excited, but at the same time a little sad. Now I will only be able to work in half the garden and I will have to wait to do the other half until the baby birds are out of the nest. I can't wait to see them grow again. I say again because this happened once two years ago but is was in front of the house not on the side. I will post daily updates once they hatch!

Getting ready for Easter

I'm getting ready for easter this week and I am super excited for it. This year I am doing my mom's and brother's baskets. This should be super fun!

I have also been gardening some more too. It's actually been good weather the last few days, but I would still like it to be over 60 degrees at least once this spring. Oh Well- you can't always get what you want. At least I have been able to get outside! WOOHOO!

Down and Dirty

Yesterday was the first really sunny day for the past two weeks so I couldn't help but take advantage of it. I decided to work in my garden area because I am going to be planting soon. I usually start earlier in spring(around the middle of March) but the weather has been so crazy and wet. It's been hard for me to find a day where it wasn't raining.

I got about half the garden space done but now I have to wait until Wednesday to do anymore. Why Wednesday? That's our garbage day and the yard waste bin is full. I just have to wait one more day, that's not to bad.

Once I get the space cleared out, Louis is going to help me get vegetable plants and plant them. This is going to be so much fun!

Spooky or Cool?

I took this picture of Gollum the other day. Well actually I took several and this was one of them. I decided to play around with photoshop and I came up with this. The effect was called "Spooky" and is it ever. At the same time it is actually kind of cool! I love the way his eye looks with all the detail. So which is it- spooky or cool? That is the question.

Not much sleep last night.

First, I have to say that last night was great even thought it did not go completely as planned. I was planning on having Louis over for a dinner with my family so he could meet them and see how crazy we all are. Well, My mom didn't get home until about 6 pm which was okay because I had enough time to make dinner. My brother Dan and his girlfriend couldn't come because they have a group thing on Friday nights. My father didn't get home until really late last night(like 11 ish) so basically is was just the three of us and our dogs.

I was going to make Chinese Hash for dinner but decided to do my mom's homemade macaroni and cheese instead. I have had a really rough week and I wanted to make a simple dish that wouldn't take too much time. It was really good and I showed Louis how to make it too. He brought dessert this time and it was fudge. It was so good and I probably ate more than I should have, but it was so good (yes, I did repeat myself because it was that good)!

After dinner and fudge we started setting up for the Easter Egg coloring. I bought two different kits the other day and I was interested in seeing how the eggs would turn out. Let's just say it was a process of trial and error. We ended up with some interesting color combinations but we had so much fun. I kept 6 and Louis took the other six.

Then came the games. First we played the Disney Edition of Scene It. It was a lot of fun or maybe I'm just saying that because I won. No, it was totally fun! Next came several rounds of a game called Pass The Pigs. My brother and his wife introduced this game to our family several years ago and we got hooked on it. I won twice, Louis won twice, and my mom won once. We then went on to Yahtzee which is one of the best games of all times. We played two games of that which I believe my mom won both times, but it was all in good fun. We wanted to play Apples to Apples, but there just were not enough people to play (that's partly why I was sad that my father had to work).

In closing: It was a lot of fun. Even though I didn't get to bed until about 2 am and I had to get up for work at 6:30. Woohoo...4.5 hours of sleep! I thought I would be really tired but I'm not. When I get home I think I am just going to want to sleep. I was hoping to pick up some vegetable plants on my way home from work but I think I may have to do it another day. I just don't think I can make it.

More to come soon!