March- the first half

March was a fairly busy month.

Will fought with a tree on our hike. 

Birds were building a nest on our garage. It made me laugh because we hardly ever keep the garage door open, but we must have kept it open just enough. Because every time it opened, there they were building! I eventually removed the nest. We didn't need fledgling birds on our garage!

Lee is pretty funny about certain things. He doens't realyl like to be teased- which is a product of being an only child. He's not used to it. But one thing he's funny about is floors. He likes them to be perfectly clean. Pristine condition is hard with 3 children, a mom who gardens and a dog. But he had finally had it and rented a carpet cleaner. He was in his glory.

While Lee was cleaning the carpets, somehow the dog knew and balanced on the chairs to look out the window. Its the only time he's ever done this. We thought it was pretty funny.

I recorded a Master Gardener podcast with there two- Justin Stefanski (our Ag agent) and Byron Glenn. It was fun.

 

February

Anna has a cool story about adding the E to the end of this road sign that says Sloan. Her neighbor had a grandchild who passed away (age 3ish) and it was spelled with an E. At the request of the mother, Anna and a friend went out in the stark of night and added the E the night before the funeral. It was a really cool story, I'll have ot have her write it so I can share.

Cynthia West, Marisa Tipps and I went to the temple.

Amy leaves a smiley face pretty much everywhere she goes- we call it her mark. This was at the neighbors house while she watched their dogs. The neighbor was so tickled about it when she got back.

I got to be on the radio! It was fora local station for Master Gardeners. I've done it a few times, it's fun.

The demo gardens at the Master Gardener area has a vineyard. We prune the vines every Winter and then harvest in September!

More Archery. This time Amy and Tyler got to shoot next to each other.

We saw an albino deer!

We got a fairy egg! It's a little tiny egg that happens every so often. I didn't get a picture of it when I cracked it, but there was barely a yolk.

We had some wind damage to our roof. Which was good as we needed a new one, we were just waiting for the right storm to mess it up enough for insurance to pay for a new one.

Tyler enjoying his Valentines Day box. This kid loves Valentines day treats. His box is always his favorite thing.

He goes through his box and reads every card.

This is how I feel driving with Amy. Luckily, Lee nearly all the time takes her driving.

I did the Hot Chocolate run- again! This was year 9. I'm shooting for 10 years.

More archery. At the time, Amy wouldn't wear her glasses or contacts. The glasses were a vanity thing (even though she looks adorable in them) and the contacts- well she said she couldn't get them in her eyes. The family rule was she couldn't get her license until she wore her contacts consistently. When she was frustrated with her archery score, we suggested that her glasses/contacts would also help with that. Lee liked bringing his iPad so he could "send messages" to the kids while they were shooting. Amy was not a fan of this one. haha. 

 

The Rest of January

More Archery! This time Will offered to carry both Amy and Tyler's cases. And Lee added a funny magnet to his car.

 

Amy's bestie, Kate Forrester, made me a cake for my birthday. I told her once that I thought my grandma name should be Daisy and then I said Crazy Daisy seemed to rhyme well about was probably appropriate. So now that's our theme. Daisies!