Catch up!

Our garden is starting to look like a garden...maybe a little anyway!

The girls participated in Rally Days at school this past week. They loved performing for the school. It was really fun!

I had a wonderful wonderful mother's day. Lots of sweet love and breakfast in bed. Cuddles and fun presents. My clan really know did well for their mommy this year I begged for either homemade gifts or something very practical that I really wanted. Steve is a "go all out" present guy---which is really sweet but I really like practical gifts most always...especially right now since we are almost done with out debt...I don't want to get off track! A retractable clothes line to hang all these towels all summer from the pool on and sheets on. Now we really look like rednecks in Tennessee.( I can hear steve's family now laughing at my rough towels) A promise to them before they come for a visit I'll fluff the towels so they won't scratch any precious solomon skin!!!!!! and a screen back door. I was so excited. It was the funniest day. I loved it all! I am so blessed to be a mommy - I couldn't wait to have my very own babies when I was young I would day dream about being a mommy! Now I just want to put a brick on their heads so they will quit growing so fast!

And this week we have the matheny kiddos after school while H and M are in Washington. We have had so much fun and the girls cry when they leave each other. Today we made a worm compost for Blake and Andrew's scout project the gardening mer. badge. I think collecting the worms was the funniest part. My old neighbor Rhonda taught us this trick to pour a little bit of bleach in a bucket...then put the water hose in and let the water spill over lots into the grass...worms will start to appear every where... we all collected them and filled our compost again. We actually killed the first batch of worms from a couple of weeks ago. So we thought we'd try it again. If you have any compost pointers let us know!