Spring cleaning

our garden

our new flowering cherry tree

strawberries

I hate extra stuff. I went through and needed some changes in our house. We did a couple new things in Siena's room. She had a fabric bulletin board that she would always play with in her room and it would fall down so we took it down for good and I used the fabric for curtains. A long time ago I bought like 500 yard spool of tulle so we tied back the curtains with tulle. It turned out pretty good with just stuff from around the house. She has wanted to paint her room pink for a long time now. I don't want to go to all the work to do it so we are gradually adding more pink accessories in hopes to not have to paint it pink. We had tons of foam paper around. So we cut out a big S and we spent $2 at the dollar store for fake flowers to pin all around it. I found some random sparkly beads around the house and glued those on randomly. She loves it, it's so funny. She is so proud.

Then we started our garden. We made some big changes to our yard. In the crazy blizzard that we had in Feb we lost one of our trees. It was bent over for weeks with the roots sticking out so we knew it had to go. With some help from our awesome neighbors Dave got it down and we got a pretty flowering cherry tree to replace it. Our beautiful Dogwood tree has been dying ever since we moved in but only half of it. So we finally borrowed a chainsaw and cut half the tree down. It looks a lot better than I thought it would. It only blooms for a month out of the whole year and this is the month so Dave couldn't bring himself to chopping it completly down. It looks a lot better and hopefully the other part of it doesn't rot away now. So we have a pretty yard and the weather is great so it is wonderful to enjoy our yard.

We planted our garden. We are trying a couple new things. I planted 2 pumpkins, just to see if we could grow them. I discovered last year my kids love sugar snap peas, so we planted a couple of those plants and we tried strawberries. Our neighbor gave us some potatoe plants so we are trying those too. We will see what grows. We always plant tomatoes and they do really well. We are really excited for our garden this year.

Also, Siena is riding her bike much better. She actually asks to ride it in the street (where we park the cars) and will go fast and actually ride. Before she would just walk the bike around or ride it on our front pation. Yeah!