So Jill's cute post about her garden inspired me to write all about my spring fever! I still don't have a home computer so I can finally post Gracie's bday pics, but it's on order! So I have already broke out the flip flops a few times when its warm and I seriously don't even want to put my socks back on! I can't wait to get this baby boy out of my growing belly and take off work for the summer so Grace and I can fill the kiddie pool in the back yard and dip our feet and eat popsicles! We actually have a community swimming pool kiddie corner to our house, but I like to chill in the comfort of our own back yard with the doggies and hang out. We BBQ all summer long (almost every night) and so we spend almost all of our time outside. I love to make a fresh batch of salsa using veggies right from our garden! YUM! The garden is Kyle's baby, but I do help water and pick (sometimes)! I'm pretty bad when it comes to helping with the yard. I mostly sit in the shade and watch :) But I really think Kyle enjoys (for the most part) taking care of his yard with his garden and all of his plants. You would think that I had the bug in me because my Dad spends all summer long in his yard too. He keeps his yard looking great and has tons and tons of plants and trees. I love their yard! He brings Kyle and I plants once in awhile to help fill all our empty dirt in the front!! Thanks Dad!! So we've already hit up Lowe's (had a coupon) and bought all of our garden seeds for the year. Sure wish we had more room for garden, but we (Kyle) makes do with what space we do have. This year we will have tomatos, cucumbers, zuccini, corn, jalepenos, onions, few different peppers, watermelon and pumpkins! We have never tried to do watermelon or pumpkins so we will see about those this year! We actually bought pumpkin seeds last year and never planted them. My aunt Judene (Auntie!!) used to do a pumpkin patch and she would let all of the kids come and pick a pumpkin and paint them! I keep hoping to take over her tradition for my neices and nephews! Cute little Gracie found my pumpkin seeds from last year about a month ago in a drawer and decided to plant them in one of our house plants! Few weeks later we had one pumpkin plant about six inches tall that had flowered and everything! Made me laugh!! So anyway, we also bought some more strawberry plants (only had a few last year) and then we are going to try raspberries and grapes this year! We'll see how that goes, hopefully good! Kyle did plant a baby apple tree last year and it actually grew one lonely apple (we didn't even expect it to produce until possibly this year) and that cute little Gracie of ours picked the apple before it was ready!! Kyle tried to eat it anyway, ha ha, he said it was totally sour! Not to mention our lovely dog Chloe chewed every branch off the apple tree last year that she could reach. Poor tree, I hope it comes back this year! I'd love to learn how to make a fresh apple pie, or apple sauce! Ooo not to mention, apple cobbler. mmmm! So one thing we do need to figure out better is how to keep the lovely Chloe out of the garden this year. Kyle did put up some wire fencing last year, but she hopped right over! She likes to dig holes next to the plants in the shade to lay in the cool dirt. Naughty doggie! So I definetely have spring fever and can't wait for the sun to come out and shine!! We also like to do a lot of camping in our trailer when its warm and I can't wait for that. Hopefully with the new baby I will still be up for doing it this year! I think I will.
