Memorial Day Weekend

 Our weekend started out at the Fisherman's Breakfast.  It is a breakfast that they do in St. Anthony to start out the fishing season!  We ate pancakes and sausage.  It made us just a little sick, so we most likely will not be going back next year...sorry St. Anthony.  It was fun though! 

 Andrew's parents came up for the weekend and we really wanted to go fishing.  The Schauerhamers told us we could go on their land, so we went out for the adventure of a lifetime.  It was raining all weekend so it was not ideal fishing weather.  But, Andrew and his dad really wanted to go, so we headed out.  We had to drive down this field and on our way back...WE GOT STUCK!!!!  Ooops!  It was so "fun" getting ourselves out of it!  We didn't even get to fish!

 Later in the day it stopped raining so we decided to go out again.  This time we stopped at the end of the field and walked down the trail! 

 We didn't catch much....but some STICKS!

 Dad Walker and my fishing line got stuck on each others!

 Then on Monday we had a BBQ for our friends and family.  It was too much fun!

 These girls just LOVE our hammock!

 We got to play croquet. That was fun

 Dad Walker's fork melted when he used it to flip the chicken on the grill!

 We played a game and our ball went into the neighbor's yard.  She was the perfect ball retriever!

At the end of the day we brought out the SNOW CONES!  Yum!  Yum!

 It was such a great day!  Thank you to all of our friends who came to celebrate Memorial Day with us!!!!

Fire in the Backyard!

 It is that time of year to do backyard fires in our fire pit!

 The Schauerhamers came over and we roasted some marshmallows!

 In this here picture you will see our friend, Morgan...AKA...Satan all covered in FLAMES!

 The girls lovin' the fire and the CHOCOLATE CHIPS we put INSIDE of the marshmallows! They got so sticky and so did everything else around them.

The girls and Andrew enjoying the hammock!!

 Some people aren't happy when a good time has to come to an end....but alas all things do have to come to an end!  But, no worries there will be more BBQs in the near future!

FRONT YARD LANDSCAPING

Before

After

We purchased a new hose holder for the side of the house but first Andrew had to untangle the mess.

We can now easily water the new landscape. But we have to plant it first.

We bought a tree and some bushes (roses and this other bush thing) and a bunch of seed. We'll see if any of these seeds spring up and bloom. We sure hope they do.

Andrew did a great job of marking out the area and we worked hard to dig it up, add edging and prepare it for plants. We learned quickly that we have really good soil! Hopefully that means lush and healthy plants!

We did run into a few roots that we had to tear out. Fortunately they were dead and came up easily.

Margie worked hard to level the dirt.

Andrew planting one of our wild rose bushes. They are supposed to bloom small pink roses all over. Cross your fingers that our plants will actually bloom.

Andrew planting the yellow flowering bush under the window.

Margie is planting pretty flowers around our new tree. Hopefully everything blooms and grows. We are so afraid everything will die. We are not green thumbs and this is all new for us. So we'll water it all and pray that something blooms!!

There has been NO time

 For the past two weeks -- we really have had no time to do our dishes...

Our countertop looks like the above picture.....

 Our silverware drawer looks like the above...

We have used almost every bit of silverware in our house....eating cereal with serving spoons is always so much fun!

 And out plate/bowl cupborad looks like this....We even went over to our tupperware cupboard and started using those for bowls!  Why have we not had much time you ask....because we have been working on......

 The High School' Musical production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  We have been the producers/directors and this week has been Dress Rehearsal and performance week.  It has been insane!  But, man is it such a great show!  Luckily, Thursday night we didn't have rehearsal or a performance.  Our first free night in about two weeks.  We decided to use our free time to do some much needed cleaning.  After 40 minutes and some great conversation our kitchen now looks like this....

Back to normal in the kitchen!  Things are looking good!

May Day Festivities

This is how we spent our May Day!  How did you spend yours?

Leave a comment and let us know if you had SUNSHINE on the first day of May!

Because we had a BUNCH of snow!

I walked onto the trampoline.....

The second I stepped onto the trampoline...

I slipped and fell!

We had a great time jumping...BAREFOOT on a trampoline full of snow!