Spring is here!!!

So much has gone on since the beginning of March and so much more to do!!! Let's talk about outside on this blog. We started all of our spring gardening... including planting onions and potatoes and broccoli. Justin tilled the garden for us and expanded our space and my brother, Travis, came over to help Justin build us some new garden beds which we will be filling with soil this weekend and planting! Lana even has helped with the gardening (and also tasted a dandelion that I washed for her- a little pungent). She's done some heavily supervised pruning, lots of digging, weeding, and planting. In addition to the veggie garden, we've been working on cleaning up flower beds and adding color as well as tons of transplanting of shrubs and trees and plants. I am getting slower and slower as I get closer to the due date for this pregnancy... but I still go out and do a little work most nice days.

So we visited Nana and Pepah Saturday (Easter Eve?) after we decorated eggs. I think Justin had the most fun decorating the eggs. He was like a mad scientist, but Lana was impressed. He went out the next week and bought a couple more egg decorating kits on the after-Easter sales so we could decorate eggs again soon!

Then Sunday we hunted for eggs at our house and at Mammie's. We always find something interesting outside. Last Easter, we had a big, fat toad in our egg hunting path. This year two lizards fell to some sort of torture as Justin caught them and gave them to Lana. Note.... if you squeeze a lizard too hard it will bite you (more like a pinch) as Lana learned the hardway. She now knows better how you hold a lizard behind the head so you don't get bit.