Garden

All our plants and flowers are starting to come to life.  The Flowers are all so pretty.  I went around taking pictures of most of the stuff.  One of our garden beds is not doing as well as the other.  I think when we had so much rain last month it had water logged everything. It's all drying out now and getting better but I'm not sure if some of the plants will grow to full size and produce anything.  I guess we will see in time.

Lillies

Lillies

Stella Doras

Pink Lillies

Orangie/Red Lillies

Pretty Yellow Lillies

View of our Path way in front of the house.

This is the garden Bed that is doing really well and the plants are growing really strong.  I love the look of Gardens and I'm so happy about this one.

This is the gardent that looks like it's not growning as well as the one I'm showing above.  Everybody do the Garden Dance for us to help make it grow and be plentiful. :)

My Cherry Tree finally is getting big but still not fruit.  Been dealing with keeping the Japanese Beetles. Oh they are a pain!

One of first of Zuchini....so excited!

We planted strawberries this year too!  We actually have some there if you can see.  They will probably be ready for picking by the end of the month hopefully.

Timmy is planting lots of Hot Peppers again this year.  here is one that we found.  It's a Cayenne Pepper.  He loves to hang these to dry in the house and then crush them up to use in his meals.

Not sure if you can see but there are 2 small cucumbers there growing.

Marigolds

Something has dug a big hole in the garden and also started a small circle one on the right by the rock.  I don't know whats living down there and not sure I want to find out.

Butterfly Bush

Butterfly Bush

My Lilac trees are hiding in this mess.  Timmy has to get it chain saw out and cut down some weird looking trees that just look ugly.

We have these 2 really tall pine trees that are pretty close to the house. They look like they are leaning sometimes.  I hold my breath every winter hoping for them to NOT fall on our house.  They sit right on the line of our property and our neighbors.  We would like to have them taken down someday when we can afford to have them do it.

My Hydrendra Plant

Impaitents looking good.

I have a little flower garden right out our door.  I have Turtle Head Plants, Bishops Weed, Hosta and one other that I don't remember the name.

Stella Doras

Don't know what this one is.

My flower garden that goes along our driveway.

Pierced Ears

We finally had the chance to take Emily to get her ears pierced.  A Birthday Present from Memere. :) Thank you Memere!!!  She could hardly wait to have them done.  She was so excited sitting in the chair but only got a little nervous when they went to put marker dots on her ears to show where they would go in.  When the girl did the first ear she asked how it was and she didn't even flinch when they went in.  She just smiled and said it never hurt.  She is so proud that she did it.  And they look very pretty!

Pictures from our Beach Trip to White Lake

Here are some pictures from our day trip to White Lake State Park.  It was a georgeous hot day and was well enjoyed by all.



Vacation

I didn't realize it has been a bit since I've last posted something.  I guess when we went on vacation I stayed on vacation. :)

We all decided this year not to go away anywhere for vacation so we can save up and possibly be able to rent a condo or a lake front cottage for a week somewhere next summer. We will be trying really hard to do this so we can actually go somewhere.

Lot's have been going on around here. The kids are on summer break and we took our family vacation the last week of June which included us just hanging around the house and visiting our local Lake to do some swimming. The weather had been very warm so it was great to just relax with a book at the lake.

We took the kids to the Drive-In again to see "Brave". What a wonderful movie and you can't beat the price of $15.00 for a car load. Another Princess to add to Disney's collection. Can't wait for it to come out on DVD to add to our BIG collection of movies that we love.

Timmy continued to work on replacing the siding on the back side of the house around the new door that goes out to the deck. Almost done! It's looking really good.

We also managed another beach day at White Lake State Park in NH which is only 25 minutes from the house. This is a really nice park.  Very clean, bathrooms, picnic tables, playground and lots of water and sun to enjoy. You have to pay to get into the park so we don't go to often only because it costs us almost $30 for just one day.  We like our own towns "Free" Lake to swim.

As you can see we had a very inexpensive vacation but that is what we love.  We had lots of family time together swimming and eating and having lots of fun which is totally priceless. 

I wish we could be on vacation everyday, all summer long with all of us. What a life that would be....

I'm trying really hard to try and get back into posting.  It may not be daily but you never know. I'll do pictures in the next one.

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