Enjoying Spring

I haven't put much in here lately because we have been enjoying spring so much. I just about put in "too busy" but that's not the case at all. We are enjoying spring but not being too busy...priorities have been on trying to spend time with my family and not at the computer.

Peas are blooming in the garden and everything else seems to remain alive. Flowers are planted and blooming around the house - I lost count at the number of different color of iris that have bloomed. The curriculum for home school has been finished. Finals are over for my wonderful husband. I haven't had office hours for the last two weeks. All of it has been really great! One more week and we have to come up with routine again :(

Making ketchup is the next thing brewing in my head. I'll let you know how that goes...As for my list of homemade stuff, I created it but it didn't paste into the blog well and I haven't messed with it more.

Congratulations Big Guy

Today my older son had two really cool things...

He rode his bike without training wheels basically the first time that he tried. (We took the wheels off a couple of weeks ago and the pedals too to get some balance - the pedals got put back on today. One trip with mom and he was off!)

At the AWANA awards ceremony he was given the Outstanding Clubber award from the K'ers! That was a fun surprise. One of his best friends also received the award to from the 1st grade class. It's great to have a good kid.

End of bragging now!

Quotes of the week

From the budding vegetarian upon mom (the vegetarian) having him try some sloppy joe she just made, "It could use some beans." (Using up all of that venison that we acquired in the fall.)

From the one with the budding hair-do when I commented that he was putting his shoes on the wrong feet, and his response was, "I guess you are good at a logical survey." (Age 4)