Not Sick!

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This week our Brown grandparent's came over and we spent a lot of time with them. Alison went out with all of the girls and ate lunch together, the kids spent time at the grandparents, Mike ate lunch with Grandpa Mike, and we all also went over to eat dinner with them. It was fun to see them again.

Wednesday evening we went to the nearby nursery and bought some tomatoes, peppers, and onions. Hopefully they grow well.

Rea also planned and executed a may-day celebration. It had a parade of children and a maypole dance. They also ate a picnic of lemonade, peppers, pears and cheese. 

On Friday we were all well enough to go to nature group for the first time in a month. It was hot, and a few of the kids whined, but we stayed the whole time and the kids had fun. Mike did yard work and mowed the lawn with our new mechanical lawn mower. It works pretty good, but doesn't do well on tall grass or sticks.

Saturday we transplanted two new trees: a cherry and an apple which we bought from the Home Depot. The cherry is now in the front yard, and the apple is in the back yard. All we need to do now is to plant the rest of our garden out and we should be great.

Saturday evening Mike started drawing up plans for the grape arbor that we are going to build. Currently it is going to be about 160 square feet. The hardest part that we are not sure about yet is how we are going to get it all square (getting four posts in the right orientation relative to each other in order to build the kids tree house was hard enough, but this one will have six posts, so it will be that much harder.) We plan on cutting the edges of the top bars with curvy angle cuts to make them look fancy, but we are not really sure how we are going to do that in actuality. If anyone has any ideas or a fancy saw or anything we would love to have help with it. We will also be staining the wood reddish so that it looks nice too.

In celebration of mother's day we made eggs, bacon, biscuits and parfaits for Alison. Things came out well, and were tasty.

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