May Excitement

May brings flowers...but also birthdays and holidays and family fun! Here are a few of the highlights!

We got the bikes all up and working, including the new-to-us bike trailer for the littles to ride in. My oldest really enjoyed pulling little sister and cousin around the driveway. We have since taken two rather long family bike rides and Daddy plans to take the older two on a few miles of Ragbri in July.

Ben went out of town for a few days with some friends, so I took the opportunity to get some major projects done (I don't sleep well when he's not here anyway). My favorite is the transformation to the flower bed out front. I wish I had a "before" so you could fully appreciate how amazing this "after" is!

Mother's Day was combined with three family birthdays for a lovely Sunday brunch at our home. We had eggs, potatoes, corned beef hash, sausage, biscuits, gravy, pancakes, waffles, muffins, gluten-free muffins, fruit, and a few other items I'm sure I'm forgetting. We all ate and visited and taught grandpa and grandma to play Qbits.

 

As we near the four year anniversary of losing our home, we still have an exhaustive list to be done...including tree clean up. Ben took down the last two "widow makers" this month, cut them into sections and the kids helped stack it. We have a lot more to do, but it feels really good to have the dangerous ones taken care of.

The week before Memorial Day last year, I had this great idea to display military flags along with our US flag...but with little time and no budget, it didn't happen. This year, I started planning in March and was successful in pulling it off. I found 2x3 foot flags for each branch: Army, Marine, US, POW/MIA, Navy, Air Force on Amazon. I attached eye bolts through the grommets on the flags and inserted into holes I had pre-drilled on sections of pvc pipe. I placed large fence posts in the ground (the one for the US flag a bit higher than the others) and slid the pipes over the top. It was a bit more expensive then I had planned and I will probably make changes in future years. We plan to display them for Flag Day, Independence Day and Veteran's Day, too.