Mooserific!

The lovely thing about Madeira is you’re always running into friends. Our trip to the Madeira Art Fair was no exception.

It’s sad to have to take down a tree (or two), but pretty awesome when it can be a DIY project.

Abby’s team won their game! It was a very wet one too. Rain! Rain! Rain!

They used some of the new chalk for drawing on the driveway.

“I am an octopus!” Abby bravely spoke her line into the microphone tonight at the kindergarten musical.

It was a double park day for us! We visited two lovely Indian Hill parks. Camp Livingston in the morning and (King) Stephan Field in the afternoon.

Before and (current) after. This weekend we added two Bloomerang purple lilacs near the garden gate. They were a great find in the clearance plant section at Lowes. These lilac bushes bloom multiple times a year, are deer and mildew restistant, and they only get 5 feet tall! I just hope they tolerate our soil and a little afternoon shade.

With one garden project, two soccer games, and three girls to entertain, I wish we had more than four adult hands this weekend. Busy, tiring, but fun!

Betta thinks we built her a huge litter box.

First soccer game (against another team) today!

Quite a difference – and it hasn’t even been two years!

After lots of hard work (Grandpa’s muscles put mine to shame), the garden bed is nearly complete. It looks incredible! We still need a few larger boards for the top and lots more soil. Thirty bags of soil and compost was too little!

Building our DIY raised garden bed begins! We rented a Home Depot truck last night (just $19!) and hauled all the wood (12 foot timbers!), soil, compost, pea gravel, etc home. We’re all super excited.

Josie’s drawing of our family. John asked when she learned how to draw people. “In November,” she said.

First she wanted me to teach her to sew on a button, and then she decided to help her Papa. Abby is a curious girl with many talents!