I just love Spring Time.. It has been so crazy here with the weather.. We have temps in the 80's and 90's then the next day they drop down to 40's.. Welcome to Michigan.. However it has stayed pretty nice since Memorial weekend.. And over the weekend we did alot of working outside in our yard and tried to get some things caught up.. We tilled and planted a garden and found some nests around the yard and this happens to be one of them and guess what had just hatched the day of the picture? Pretty ugly hu? They are baby Robins..
This is a duck's nest we found along our water canal ditch.. We ended up scarring the mother off and we havn't seen her come back.. Hope she does and they hatch.
On Memorial day we spent the day tilling the yard and fencing and planting our garden.. Not sure what happened to the pictures I took after it was planted.. I cant wait.. We planted tomatoes, carrots, peas, beans, peppers, onions, pumpkin, watermelon, squash, cucumbers, broccoli,corn plus not shown we planted 10 rasberry bushes 8 strawberry bushes, 4 apple tree's, 2 peach, and 2 apircot tree's.. I feel like we are turning into farmers..
with 6 acre's we have lot's of space to ride the 4 wheeler. Also with 6 acres we had to buy one of those big zero turn riding lawn mowers.. It still takes us 4 hours to mow the lawn.
Along with spring comes baseball.. Austin has been having a blast playing this year..
Our new kitten we promised the kids we would get as soon as we had our own house.
Then we had the Mormon Prom.. Out here in Michigan they have a mormon prom which is basically like a glorified stake dance where 5 stakes come together for a dance and they dress semi formal... It gives the youth of the church a nice dance to go to that has higher standards with modest clothing.. Allie had a blast and danced all night..
Along with our house came a Hot Tub and we did not really have any clue as to how much chemicals to use and we didnt have any testing strips.. Well on Easter we cleaned out the hot tub filled it and put chemicals in and thought we were ok but little did we know.. Because of our well water our ph in the water was off the charts and our son got a horrible rash all over his entire body.. We took him to the doctor and found out he had what is called hot tub folliculitis.. He was put on antibiotics and a steroidal lotion.. after about 2-3 weeks it finally went away.. It was really bad... This picture does not do it justice.. His eyes were swollen he looked aweful.. We had to keep him home from school for 2 days just because he looked so bad..
Anyways that is how are spring is going so far although I dont think it is spring much anymore.. The last 3 days we have had temps up to the 80's and 90's
Stay tuned my next post will be on our awesome trip to the Bahamas.. Steve made All Star #1 manager in the country for his company so we got an all paid trip to Atlantis in the Bahamas... It was sooooo great...
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