Spring has Sprung

Oh, it has been so long since I've posted. We went from snow to spring. (Wasn't it just snowing like 3 weeks ago though!!)
Pappy and the Girls!

And Christian finished well in this, his last derby car race. Next year he'll be too old. He's had a great track record with either a first or second place finish every year. He took 2nd place this year.


Well we spent all day Sunday clearing out the flower beds and washing windows and getting ready for SPRING! Lo and Behold, there under all those leaves were...TULIPS!! Oh, how welcome. The boys loved these pictures of Faith, she's such a ham. She had a ball with all the long grasses we were cutting.



Then there was a job for our resident pyrotechnic. Mitchell and I argued over how short he had to cut the grasses down before he burned them. He thought he should be permitted to let them standing seven feet in the air and just torch them. Stating that he "could handle it" and I should "just stay out of it." I WON. (Cuz I'm the MOM you know). And so, he drenched the ground around them (it was already muddy wet from lots of rain) and cut them to no more than about 8 inches high. Then he told me to "Stay back." So here he is in his glory. And...
And...
And...OHHH...I wasn't going to, probably shouldn't, really shouldn't post these...BUT..Oh...should I or shouldn't I?...Wanna see them??...You know those times when you don't know what you've captured on your camera until after the fact...Oh, man, they're just too priceless not to post... Oh, here goes...

































And about this time, my lovely, organized, on-top-of-things neighbor (who surely must think I'm a few bananas short of a fruit basket anyways) walked by (love you Niki) and said, "Is this a controlled burn?"

Yes, I seem to be losing a grape here and there as time goes by.

...Maybe I'll go read up on what the Scriptures have to say about fruit.