I'm so excited that it's Springtime! I love being able to get outside without freezing to death and love seeing signs of life springing up all over the place. Flowers, buds, green grass. So great.
My little boy is getting bigger all the time and is growing up so fast. Remember these trees from several years ago at our townhouse? Well here's my boy standing in front of one of them. My baby trees have grown up as well. :)
My most recent crafting venture was out of necessity but I also enjoyed adding some cuteness and color. X's new car seat is not top-of-the-line necessarily and I'm assuming for that reason didn't come with any protective padding for the seat
belt straps. If they never rubbed up against his little neck I wouldn't really care, but when cinching down the strap to belt him in, if I'm not careful enough, it does tend to give him a little strap burn and make his neck red. During the winter it hasn't been much of a problem if he has a jacket on with a hoodie, the straps end up encased in the hoodie rather than right on his neck. But it's now time for some intervention. I came across a few tutorials online at some point and used the general concept. I probably should have done the binding a little different and done it more like a quilt instead of doing each side on it's own. It was a little more difficult to keep everything tucked under and held down while sewing and seemed to take longer than I expected. In any case, the job is done and now I can look in my rear-view mirror and enjoy some cute polka dots along with my little cutie and know that his neck is safe from strap-burn. Hooray.
My dear husband has also planted the most excellent vegetable in 'our yard'. I say 'our yard' because it's really on the outskirts of our actual property line. But there were just a bunch of weeds growing back there and who knows if or when they're going to do anything with the property behind us so we decided to try and tackle the weeds and make it look a little nicer since we have to be the ones to look at it all the time. So we're planting things there knowing full well that they may be bulldozed someday. I've tried to convince him that this is probably not the greatest idea, but at the same time it works well since we don't have to dig up our yard to do some gardening. I'm just nervous that we're going to get some great things established and love having them around, and then have to give them up. So far we have a raspberry and blackberry bush, mint, and asparagus established. We're working on adding a blueberry bush and a few strawberry plants. They're all perennials and I'm loving the no-fuss aspect of not having to re-plant every year. So the vegetable I started out referring to is of course, the asparagus. I've never seen it grown or picked it until this year. We started some crowns (roots) last year as well as some seeds. The plants that grew from seeds are still not mature enough this year to harvest and are the feathery plants pictured to the right and left of the taller stalks. But the crowns have started producing stalks thick enough to eat. We've been able to have a handful of freshly picked asparagus at dinner the past few days. At some point we're going to get a full garden going but I think it'll be in another year or two yet. Fresh vegetables and herbs are the best. It also helps me realize how amazing God is in creating such diverse and interesting things for us to eat. Asparagus is like no other plant I've ever seen before. No traditional leaves, just these stalks that shoot out of the dirt. If you don't pick them they end up a couple feet tall and then feather. So strange, it amazes me.
My little boy is getting bigger all the time and is growing up so fast. Remember these trees from several years ago at our townhouse? Well here's my boy standing in front of one of them. My baby trees have grown up as well. :)
My most recent crafting venture was out of necessity but I also enjoyed adding some cuteness and color. X's new car seat is not top-of-the-line necessarily and I'm assuming for that reason didn't come with any protective padding for the seat
belt straps. If they never rubbed up against his little neck I wouldn't really care, but when cinching down the strap to belt him in, if I'm not careful enough, it does tend to give him a little strap burn and make his neck red. During the winter it hasn't been much of a problem if he has a jacket on with a hoodie, the straps end up encased in the hoodie rather than right on his neck. But it's now time for some intervention. I came across a few tutorials online at some point and used the general concept. I probably should have done the binding a little different and done it more like a quilt instead of doing each side on it's own. It was a little more difficult to keep everything tucked under and held down while sewing and seemed to take longer than I expected. In any case, the job is done and now I can look in my rear-view mirror and enjoy some cute polka dots along with my little cutie and know that his neck is safe from strap-burn. Hooray.
My dear husband has also planted the most excellent vegetable in 'our yard'. I say 'our yard' because it's really on the outskirts of our actual property line. But there were just a bunch of weeds growing back there and who knows if or when they're going to do anything with the property behind us so we decided to try and tackle the weeds and make it look a little nicer since we have to be the ones to look at it all the time. So we're planting things there knowing full well that they may be bulldozed someday. I've tried to convince him that this is probably not the greatest idea, but at the same time it works well since we don't have to dig up our yard to do some gardening. I'm just nervous that we're going to get some great things established and love having them around, and then have to give them up. So far we have a raspberry and blackberry bush, mint, and asparagus established. We're working on adding a blueberry bush and a few strawberry plants. They're all perennials and I'm loving the no-fuss aspect of not having to re-plant every year. So the vegetable I started out referring to is of course, the asparagus. I've never seen it grown or picked it until this year. We started some crowns (roots) last year as well as some seeds. The plants that grew from seeds are still not mature enough this year to harvest and are the feathery plants pictured to the right and left of the taller stalks. But the crowns have started producing stalks thick enough to eat. We've been able to have a handful of freshly picked asparagus at dinner the past few days. At some point we're going to get a full garden going but I think it'll be in another year or two yet. Fresh vegetables and herbs are the best. It also helps me realize how amazing God is in creating such diverse and interesting things for us to eat. Asparagus is like no other plant I've ever seen before. No traditional leaves, just these stalks that shoot out of the dirt. If you don't pick them they end up a couple feet tall and then feather. So strange, it amazes me. 
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