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.

Snow Scam 2009 is NOT a Scam!!!

Every year I refer to the local weather hype as "Snow Scam Year XXXX", but this year it wasn't hype... we actually got some nice powdery snow that came down all day long. Of course, this is so exciting for kids, so we took some time to play in it and enjoy some special treats of cookies and cocoa. Justin even suited up to grill our pork loin in the snow tonight, which is a good thing because we kept having short power outages during dinner preparations!

Lana made her first snowman and a snow-duck... well, she helped a little, mostly with the face and arms. She ate snow for the first time and drank hot cocoa for the first time! Lots of fun first today! Justin enjoyed making some menacing snowballs and was very kind not to use them against us!

Pregnancy is Going Great

Just a quick post to show how huge I look and to say all is well. I'm tired mostly, but we are healthy and fine. I am starting to get excited about the upcoming birth and we are doing some preparations around the house to get ready. Mostly we need to move Lana to her own room and so the baby can use the nursery. I already put together the crib and we are working to clear our our stuff from the room that Lana will be taking over. Next step is to finish reorganizing and paint.

On another note about my pregnancy. No, I am not having twins! I am getting asked that a lot and I've only gained a net of 10 pounds and this is just how I look when I'm pregnant because I have no torso... the baby has to go somewhere so a giant belly seems to be the best option.