Pretty Yard Wildflowers

Zane and Rachel love going on wagon rides and picking yard wild flowers.  That is the good thing about not having lots of grass.  We have lots of pretty flowers!

Here are two wagon ride videos taken a few weeks ago:

Growing Garden

Here are more pictures of our little garden! I love seeing it bloom!!!!

I'm going to try growing some seeds from this plant.

Pretty tiny flowers on one of our cuban gold plants.

Bubbles

Rachel and Zane love blowing bubbles and have become pretty good at it! I hope that will help Rachel blow out her two candles on her birthday in August, but I'm thinking she might be shy and not want to do that. I could be surprised though! Anyway, I bought a big refill bubble container-maybe a gallon? and we've been refilling their little ones. Rachel and Zane spill them sometimes, but I've also spilled so I can't get too upset when they do it. :)

New Additions!

We have two new additions to our yard!  Back in February, Jeff purchased two beautiful clementine trees!  We finally got them planted and they are standing tall!  Jeff had lots of helpers and it was a fun time.  At least for us-we didn't have to dig the holes!  So, thanks, Jeff!

Rachel and Zane ride in the wheelbarrow!


Rachel falls into the tree hole at the beginning of this video, but don't worry, she's fine!

Zane's Garden

Last month we planted a garden!  Everyone had a part in it.  Daddy tilled, and Zane and Rachel helped plant seeds.  Zane decided he wanted his own garden!  So, I gave him the leftover seeds and let him have at it.  I didn't think much about it because he planted them where he digs his digger.  Well, several days went by when he wasn't able to dig and low and behold, several seeds had grown!  Then I went to the other side of the driveway and there were more coming up!  So, Jeff transplanted them to pots and they continued to grow.  This last Saturday we decided it would be fun to plant them where they had a chance to grow.  And we got rained on!  The kids had lots of fun and we had fun standing under the eave, watching the rain.

The next day, I spotted approximately 15 seeds that had sprouted by the barn door in the grass.  Zane sure was busy with those seeds!  I think those are just going to have to take their chances.  :)

Another already!

We have started in on our third potty chart!  Zane's reward for filling up this one was a super long and awesome video about cranes! He just loves machines of any kind and I am happy he thinks it's fun to watch them!