Ready for Spring!

I am ready for Spring time!  Last week, we had a few days in a row that were in the 70's and it felt amazing!  The warmer weather and sunshine gives me so much energy!  I wanted to do all the things!!!  I walked out to the garden and hoed the dirt.  I pulled out my tulip bulbs from the barn and got them planted into a pot!  It's so amazing to me that something as simple as a bulb that has no brains, starts to sprout and turn green in the spring!  I can't wait for these to pop through the dirt and display some color in the garden!

 

I sat down with my seeds catalog and wrote down plants that I want to plant and grow this year.  I make a simple drawing of how I want the garden to look.  A lot of it stays the same from year to year but I just like having a visual of the garden.

I save these same old branches every year and every spring they get stuffed into a pot of soil on the porches!  Spring please come soon!

Mike and I cheered for the girls basketball team and what a fun win for coach!  100 wins!

We've had a few days of teasing spring weather!  70 plus degrees for two days straight and I wanted to do all the outside things!  I hoed the garden beds!

The neighbor kids were all around the tree in the field across from our house trying to smoke bomb out a ground hog!  Of course, the boys in our house had to go help too!

I took my list of seeds to Royers and bought some packs!  Now I just need to wait till it warms up a bit and plant some radishes, carrots and lettuce!

Every day walking at the park is wonderful!  But today we see the flagstaff at half staff because of a police officer was shot and killed.  So sad!

Got the rake going in the back yard and there's so many sticks and pine needles and yuk in the grass.

Not anymore!

We are in the new workout gym for my weekly workout class I attend!  

It's lovely and so nice to have the doors wide open!

Hadassah and I love to thrift together and it's been so fun to go to Goodwill and see what we can find!

Baby dear is watching the boys in the back yard throwing baseballs!

Mike and I are honored to be part of the Joshua Premier at Sight and Sound!  The show is incredible!  

Go watch it!!!!

Austin's been having fun making new friends on his spring baseball team!  Instead of practice, they met at a pizza shop and watched the World Classic Baseball game!

My favorite basketball player is still wearing number 14 and we went to watch Matthew play last night!

The weather is cold and even a bit of snow fell on the ground last night.

Today is St. Patrick Day!  I love to read the origin of the holidays we celebrate and they usually always have a good meaning!  Today, we will reread about Patricks missionary opportunity and drink an Irish coffee!

March.

March is here!!!!  Hello more sunlight days!  Hello spring blooms!  Hello garden seeds.  Hello baseball gloves and muddy spikes.  Hello Spring!  Hello robins and green grass!  Hello daffodils and pansies!  Hello March!

 

I'm so excited to flip the calendar page over to March!  This year is going fast and we are ready for our very cold winter to end!  We are ready for spring time!  

I don't follow politics closely.  I don't watch the news regularly.  But when there a moon phase coming up or a hurricane roaring in the south ... I look into it.  I was really hoping to watch the Blood Moon turn red early this morning!  I woke up to watch it but when I stepped outside, I couldn't find the moon.  It was too cloudy to see this happen at my house.  Bummer.  I did look it on up on Fox News and watched it live with their camera views but it would have been so cool to watch this happen on our front porch!  Maybe in 2028 Ill be able to witness this live!

Enjoy this new month of March!

Snow and sports.

 Winter is still here and something I wanted to do for a few years is go to Lititz to see their Fire and Ice Event.  In the past, we are on vacation or it just didn't work out to go but we had one night open and we went!  Austin wasn't into it at first but he ended up liking the ice sculptures and enjoying the fire show!

I finally finished this winter scene puzzle and this book.

More snow is coming and I made a quick stop to buy the essentials.  Milk, bread, eggs, heavy cream and Florida strawberries.  The kids came over to watch it snow but went home to sleep on Sunday night.  Austin was found doing school work on Monday morning because school was canceled.  We got about 4 inches and not 12 inches like they predicted.

Fresh snow was scrapped off the back porch.  Mike started the campfire on the back porch and made some shrimp and smash burgers!  

Mike and I have been having a lot of heart to heart conversations and sometimes our differences need to be worked through.  We never intend to hurt each other but it happens in moments.  When I got into my vehicle, the radio was turned on and this sermon was being preached.  I know that God put this sermon into my lap for me to hear!  Loud and clear!  I came home to look up the sermon and listen to the entire sermon.  Then I realized this is a series and I listened to every single sermon (seven sermons) and it's like every sermon here was written for me!  Going through hard talks and challenges DOES NOT have to be in fights or arguments.  This has been convicting to me and the Lord is working on me!  Maybe you would also like this sermon!

My family loves these and it's my favorite food art!

I was looking up some quotes on Pinterest and this one hit me!  I printed it out!

I was so happy that I may have done a happy dance when I saw these peony plants at Costco last week!  I love these flowers and wish for more plants in my gardens and now I can!!!!  Let's bring on Spring time!

I love when I get to hang out with little buddy!

We are in the home stretch on basketball and we cheered for the girls in this district game!

The Warriors ended in second place but still moving on to States!  Mike and I love to turn these game nights into date nights!  

On Saturday, it was time to cheer for Ashlyn at her volleyball tournament.  We met the team at Crumble Cookie to start things off sweet!  It was such a beautiful, sunny day and Mike and I grabbed some hot dogs and ate outside to let the sunshine hit our faces!

On Sunday, we had day two of the tournament.  I try to not feel like a twisted pretzel with sitting in folding chairs for two days straight but it gets me!  This time it's just me cheering for Ashlyn.  Mike and Austin stayed home.  It was another day of sunshine and the snow is melting.

The girls had some wins and some loses.  It's all this practice and all these games that will help Ashlyn grow in her volleyball skills and ultimately help our school team bring more wins!

February is closing.  Winter is ending soon and I'm so excited to have March arrive and let Spring begin!