it seems since we moved in i all of a sudden have gardening fever! i dont know where it came from...but i love it. last week i was in the yard everyday! ive planted all kinds of stuff in our front flower bed, have some pots with seeds, hanging baskets..joey and i finally got rid of all the ugly lava rock on each side of our driveway, put down some fresh soil and planted a few things up there. last week i planted 3 gardenias along the side of our screened in porch, and 3 butterfly bushes on either side of the door. as SOON as we get our fence up i plan on planting a bunch of hydrangeas and maybe some roses back there :) i cant wait!
its hard work but really fulfilling, not to mention i dont think ive ever slept as well as i do after a day of gardening!
summer is most definitely here, it is SO hot outside. We are SO looking forward to our 4th of July trip at Topsail Island, i fell in love with it last year and have been so anxious to go back. Not to mention my God daughter Lilliana will be there this year :) SO FUN! Claire is still prego though, poor girl-- shes 39 weeks and has been on bedrest for the past couple. shes more than ready! hopefully my next post will be all about showing pictures of Lilliana :) i cant wait to meet her!
other than work not a whole lot has been going on with us. with joeys job he has to work every weekend...which as first wasnt so bad but now im kinda over it! i hate not being able to spend time with him. his off days are always random, and during the week when im at work. very frustrating!
this past saturday he got off a bit early though, and we were looking for something different other than the standard dinner and a movie-- so after a friend suggested it we went to Washington Farms, bout 10 minutes from our house to pick strawberries! it was so fun! and alot cheaper than dinner/movie! we were there about 30 minutes and we paid 10 bucks for a pound of fresh home grown hand picked strawberries :) joey said there was no way we'd go through all those but in 24 hours? they were gone! they were the best strawberries i think ive ever had! so we'll have to go back again before the season is over :)
James,Shannon, and Kilian are here right now! Theyve been here the past couple weeks cause James is doing some training for the marines here in ATL. Remember Kilian!? Check out some of my older posts from July :) He's doing GREAT and im so stoked i got to meet him finally! he is such a sweet little guy! they came over to our house one night for a cook out and delilah fell in love with him!
we've really enjoyed having them here, we keep tryin to convince them to move here when james is done with the military ;) itd be so cool havin the bakers/soignets a few hours away in NC and the fideros here with us! we'll keep dreamin though ;)
thats all for now! life is good, the weather is HOT, and lookin forward to a great summer!
some pictures from gardening....
