Spring at Happy Hollow

We live on a absolutely lovely mountain that has wonderful views and spring is just beautiful. The family that originally built our house and owned the park behind us loved azalea bushes and cultivated all sorts of original colors and types. So all over their are bursts of colors from the bushes that are at their peak right now. We have whites, pink, red, purple, and oranges.

We also found asparagus growing on our property wild which is exciting since we love asparagus! We have planted tomato plants and pepper plants and have potatoes to plant this week! Looking forward to fresh salsa this fall!

Pride and Prejudice Dress Rehearsal

So this week is going to be long! We had our first dress rehearsal for the play tonight (its actually still going on but I came home to relieve Grandma from babysitting). Its coming together...we have costumes now which makes it more fun and lights...we have a singing practice and another dress rehearsal before the performance on Friday! Come one, come all and see our one performance!

Making Things Ourselves

I feel like the past couple weeks Joshua and I have been venturing out and learning to make things ourselves. It's been pretty exciting!

First I have to brag about my amazing husband who put in our very own diaper sprayer (which is a kitchen sprayer attached to the toilet that allows you to spray off dirty diapers). Since Gideon just started solids it has become a much needed tool and Joshua decided he could do it himself instead of buying one. So we went to the hardware store and Joshua explained to someone that he wanted to attach a kitchen sink sprayer to the toilet and the guy got him all set up with the stuff he needed. So last night we finally had a little bit of time and Joshua put it all together and it worked great! But the sink sprayer end had a crack so this morning he returned that for a new one and now we have a perfectly good working diaper sprayer!!!! I am so grateful that he put one in...

Yesterday I also got to learn how to use our new tortilla maker and I made my very own flour tortillas and corn tortillas! Then I made my own chips from the corn tortillas...I've enjoyed having more time to cook and experiment in the kitchen!

Today I'm making a bumper for Gideon's crib...because we are teaching him to sleep through the night in his own room and he's still working on it but at night if he wakes up and starts crying the madder he gets the more he arches his back and scoots up to the top and bumps his head. So now he has a couple little red bumps...so thus I'm making padding for him!

We had a busy weekend with going to R. for a youth conference and being able to see my family, which was nice. They were so eager to see Gideon! So I've included a couple pictures from that.

Our play Pride and Prejudice is coming...the performance is next Friday and I think everyone will be so glad to finally be done with it...but right now everyone is finishing their lines and costumes and working on their songs...if you'd like to come let me know...

Making Baby Food

Well since Monday and discovering that Gideon was definitely ready for some baby food he has been eating away!!! I had two jars of baby food that I had gotten free that are big size and he is working his way thru those...but today I figured that the sweet potatoes would only last so long and I should make my own baby food for when he runs out. So today I made some green bean baby food and have it in the freezer till I need it. I already made a ton of applesauce last year to be ready for when he would be eating...we also put up his booster seat...he is sooo cute!

Starting to Eat Solids

Gideon decided today that milk was not enough to fill his tummy and asked to be fed some mashed potatoes...thus we enter into the world of solid foods!

Visit from Mimi, and Aunts and Uncle

Gideon Is Rolling!

Gideon has known how to roll for a few months but didn't really start rolling till today...and now he loves it!!!