Dance Parteeeeeee, Er, I Mean.....Baby Shower......

Wow, another blog that was a lifetime ago (j/k, but not really).

My dear, beloved, friend, Amanda,  whom i hold dear to my heart was getting ready to welcome #3 (now named Amanda Lynn) into the world and so we of course had to throw her a baby shower to celebrate and supply her for the next few months with goodies and love.  :-)

Seen as we did this not that long ago from when she was pregnant with Evelyn, i decided to skip the "traditional" games and whatnot of a shower and instead opted for good food and friends.  All was well.....and then Sara, grandma-to-be for the thrird time, suggested the game of all games for us all to play.....

"Just Dance" on the Wii!

Yep, that's right and even Amanda participated, although i'm pretty sure she was just tryng to go into labor.  ;-)

There's not much else to say other than it was one of the most entertaining times i have had at any shower (even with my awesome poopy diaper games that i usually do).  The pictures speak for themselves.  Thanks to all involved and for everyone for being such good sports.  You women are amazing and are definitely my favorites!  :-)

Loving the kids sneaking inthe background to dance too.  :-)

The Gardening Club......

Well, not really, but i am thrilled to have my mother here who was my mentor and founded my desire for gardening.  She has a love of gardening from her father and now it seems that Eden has a love of gardening from me!  :-)  Edy is always eager to help plant and dig, and even weed from time to time.  It makes me happy to see her learning such an important and useful skill and to enjoy doing it at the same time.

This year we have much more land to work from and i no longer have to garden in plant pots on the porch.  We are lucky that the owners of the house we live in were also gardeners and pretty much already had a designated spot for a large garden which all we had to do was till and weed.

This year my goal is to can as much spaghetti sauce as possible for food storage and so i have 34 tomato plants, most of which are Romas that i grew from seed.  I also have i think 8 green pepper plants, and numerous cucumbers growing and butternut squash.  I also have a rhubarb plant that i love, but have never grown before, but it will be 2 or 3 years before i will most likely be able to harvest that.  In addition to our vegetables we have a variety of herbs growing.  We have basil (my favorite), parsley, oregano, greek oregano, dill ( although it's not doing too well - gardening tips welcome on that one), mint, blackberry mint, chocolate mint, and......i think that's it.  :-)

Here's for happy harvesting!

Here's what they look like now, less than 2 months later:

Easter...And More Pagan Rituals.....Yes That Happened Too....

Well,  like i said, i'm playing catch up here, but today's blog is the Easter one.  So this year i pondered on the all beloved jelly beans that go in eggs, that are put there by rabbits, and thought, "What the heck?  How did we come to this utter nonsense?"  ;-)

Well i never told the (to me) utter nonsense that there really was a giant bunny delivering candy for the kids, to my kids.  Call me a hypocrit, but for some reason Santa and the Tooth Fairy just seem way more believable. No one seems to mind that the Easter Bunny isn't real, in fact i think it's quite frightening.

Anyway the kids do like jelly beans and candy (go figure) so even though we really try to put the focus on what Easter is really about, which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we do still celebrate it with Easter candy and i lately have been buying them some sort of present too.

This year Sarah and Iman got MP3 players, Edy got a Rascal Flatts and a Taylor Swift CD, and Jack got some more Lego.  They were all pretty pleased, and this year seen as half of my kids cannot have food coloring we put pennies, nickles, and dimes in the plastic eggs for the egg hunt.  To prevent tantrums and fights we hide exactly the same number for each child and tell them that when they have reached that certain number they have to stop looking.  Everyone seems to be fine with this and they all had a great time on their "treasure hunt."