April weather is crazy!

 April is going by so fast and we are constantly finding ourselves turning on the heat, then opening the windows for fresh air to come inside and we even had the AC running for a day and night.  This Spring weather is being very up and down. Cold to hot.  Then back to cold.  I do hope the frost is gone till fall!!!!  

Back in December when the children were asking what I want for Christmas, I said dahlia tubers!  They had to look them up and I picked out a collection I loved!  They arrived just the other week and I have them all planted and tucked in the ground out by the garden!  I CANNOT wait to see how they perform!!!  This is a gift to me that will give back again and again and I hope to grow these varieties for many years!  What a gift!!!!!! 

Can you see the heavy frost in the field?  I hope this is the last frost of the season!

Then we have the most gorgeous days to walk at the park.  You never know if it will be in shorts or pants?

We tried to cover the fruit trees to protect them from the frost but it may have been a fail?  One sheet was laying on the ground the next morning.  I think the trees are OK!

We covered the garden beds that have foods already popping through the dirt!  

Lettuce, Kale, Radishes and Kohlrabi are doing just fine in these temperatures!

I called and ordered the mulch and it came the very next day!  Time to work!  I have 12 yards of premium bark mulch and one yard of mushroom mulch for the garden!

Last week was a week of fun things!  Ashlyn and I went to our church ladies spa night and ladies did nails, facials, pedicures and even got massages!  It was a fun night!

Hadassah and I met up at Goodwill once again!  This has been really fun for us to do together!

Here I have a container of tubers from last year that I planted into the ground and then my new gifted dahlia tubers from the children I put in the center!  I hope this raised bed shows us a lot of beauty this summer!

I love this space!!!!!

We went to the theaters to watch Sight and Sounds movie "A Great Awakening!"  This has such a great message and you should watch it!!!!

We took the whole crew!

The weather was so lovely on Thursday that I rushed through my cleaning duty at home and then raced off to the greenhouses!  Everything is full and thriving and beautiful!  We have so many local greenhouses in our area that I just love to walk through many of them.  Over the years, I have found my favorite plants at different greenhouses and I went to a few and bought my flowers for my pots!

Because I wasn't far from Twin Valley Coffee, I grabbed my all time favorite drink ... Cold Brew Lemonade!

It is wonderful to have the garden sprinkler running again!

Flowers don't keep but these from the tulip farm were so pretty!

We have another favorite little coffee truck and their Strawberry Matcha is out of this world!!!!!

We may have ordered three large after intern for Ashlyn and taken one to Hadassah!

Saturday these guys sat in the woods at the cabin hunting for turkeys while enjoyed the Gospel Express Sale!

Austin didn't get to shoot one but Colson did!  Making memories!

Saturday afternoon, all of us girls went for another round of Strawberry Matcha with Daisy, Lena and Zayla with us.  The kids were over that night and we didn't get to bed till after 12:30 AM because of talking and hanging out!  We are in a sweet spot right now with the kids!  They come over and chat and play games and watch sports and just be here!  Love it!

On Sunday, we yawned through church but went back that night for worship night!  So good!!!!

This was a full week of fun things and the weather was lovely!  April ... you do surprise us with the weather but the earth is full of blooms and beauty!  What a wonderful God we serve!

Tulip Farm!

 I've always wanted to visit a tulip farm and I checked that off my Spring bucket list this week!

It was a gorgeous, very warm day.  90 degrees actually and that's why I really wanted to get this done this week because the tulips will not last long in that kind of weather!

Hadassah and Gunnar went along!  We went to a farm in York and then over to Matt and Lenas market for lunch!  It was so much fun!

These beautiful tulips I picked from the farm!

We just walked the fields and loved our day together!

So adorable!

Gunnar is not walking just yet but getting closer!  He crawls everywhere and gets around!  We love him so much!

This was such a fun little outing!

Spring.

I love Spring time!  We are out of winter now and everything is bursting with buds, color and growth!  I am so amazed at the difference between one month.  There's a huge difference between March 15 to April 15.  We are having unusual warm temperatures for April some days and then back to frost a few days later.  I actually turned on the AC for a day last week.  It was 92 degrees outside.  Truly unusual!!!!

 

The park is full of color and fresh mulch and it's beautiful!

Matthew stopped in one night and I put him to work.  We planted ten peony plants!!!!

I love tulips and I grabbed these at Target last week and they are gorgeous!!!!!

We are back at the ballpark eating hot dogs and watching balls hit into the air!  It's so much fun!

Austin is playing for a team with a church league.  He's played in this since he was six years old and really loves it.  They had an opening, tournament style day for the players to meet each other and get excited for games to start later this spring!

I love seeing Mike coaching Austin's team and having fun together!

We participated in a Legacy Drive in memory of Carson and Annika Rollman.  What a long journey of grief it has been this past year for the Rollman family.  Please keep praying for them!  I can't imagine life without two children!

I also got to a few greenhouses last week and bought some Kimberly Queen ferns and white petunias!  

Mike and I had dinner with friends and of course I had to order "The Worlds Smallest Sundae" for dessert!

Lena and I were in charge of Grandparents Day at school again this year.  We made 17 huge breakfast casseroles the day before and helped serve over 500 people at school on Wednesday.  What a day!!!!

Austin is also playing on a Spring baseball league this Spring and he's loving it!!!!  Many practices already and games played!  

Such a great group of boys that are now friends to Austin!

The blooms outside the front door are outstanding right now!!!!  Everything is bursting with color!

On Saturday, PV had opening day for the baseball teams!  It was picture day, home run derby day and a game with Dad's VS Boys day!  The weather was perfect and warm!  Mike was in Florida and missed out but I was there with Austin and I loved watching him have so much fun!  We had a very dramatic moment in the morning when I told Austin to go get dressed for the game!  He could not find his jersey anywhere!  We looked in every closet, every drawer, behind things and in things and it was no where around.  We prayed we would find it!  Austin was in tears.  I was sweating because where could it be????  Finally, we found it behind his dresser drawer in the nick of time.  We grabbed our breakfast, ate on the way to the park and he was off to find his team.  Soon he came running back in tears saying he forgot his hat in his bedroom.  Good thing we don't live far at all from the park and as I was still unwinding from not knowing where his jersey was, I told him I would go quickly back home for his hat.  I wondered if I should go back to bed?  This was stressful!  I got back to the park in plenty of time for pictures and his game and he really had a good time!  

Spring is in full swing!  Ashlyn is still in volleyball.  Austin is doing baseball.  Mike finished up taxes and evaluations at work and I'm over here trying to keep things together!  🤣

I love Spring time!