Thoughts

Katie has had a fever for a day or two. She is still happy and good-natured, but I can tell she doesn't feel well.

Today she was so cute. She was walking around the house, and twice she stepped on something that stuck to her foot. You know, dirt, or food or something. Anyways, she kept saying "mess" and swirling her arm around in a circular motion as though she was stirring something. Apparently that means "vacuum". I didn't really feel like vacuuming right then, so I asked her if she wanted to go outside, or vacuum. She chose to clean. I guess she really does take after me in some ways.

Mother's Day notes:

Ryan worked so hard on Saturday to plant the trees, and he worked on the sprinkler system, and got the extension cord for my freezer hooked on the garage rafters. I went and bought myself some pink petunias because I knew it would be hard for Ryan to find what I wanted. I think he felt put-out about it, because he wanted to take me to dinner on Monday. We went to The Pizza Factory, and it was really nice. Earlier in the day, I was thinking that I should probably just make dinner, so we could save some money. I told Ryan, and he acted disappointed and said he was planning on shaving, and dressing up nice with me. That pretty much clinched it for me. Who doesn't want to go eat with the person they love the most, AND dress up nice? That might sound as though I'm making fun, but I do enjoy dressing up, and Ryan looked extremely handsome. We had a really nice night, and I was really glad we went.

I actually started this post last week. I'm having a hard time keeping up with this blog, and finding stuff to write about. I guess I have things to talk about, they just aren't much about Katie. She seems so grown up now. She can go down a step or two without holding anyone's hand (new as of yesterday), and she was rolling around like a log yesterday too. She is so much fun, and is learning new things all the time.

Ryan worked really hard this last weekend. He plays on a city softball team as the catcher. They play 2 games every Friday night. They won both games last week, and he was pretty tired from that. Still, he mowed both the lawns on Saturday, weed-wacked, sprayed weeds, and then started digging a HUGE hole with his father. Our city is switching to pressurized irrigation for non-culinary water, so everyone has to dig holes to connect the sprinkler system to the P.I. system. The hole they dug was probably about 6 feet deep, and 5 feet long, and about 2 feet wide. They were both pretty sore. Now they just have to fill it back in after it is approved by the city, which will require lugging the dirt back over to the hole, and shoveling it back in, and stomping on it to make sure it compacts well. I'm so glad he and Jerry are doing this. There is no possible way I would ever have been able to do that, pregnant or not.

I think the worst part of them working so hard on Saturday was that they started at about 11:30 or 12, and finished about 2:30 or 3. The hottest part of the day. Yuck.

Overall, I am just so blessed to have a wonderful, smart, funny, beautiful, healthy girl like Katie; a fabulous, hard-working, handsome, always-makes-me-feel-better husband; a healthy child developing and growing inside me; and I usually have the energy to enjoy all of them!

Yard Plans

I spent last Monday and Tuesday digging up most of the dandelions in the front yard. I'm not quite done yet, but it looks infinitely better. If I can finish the rest of the yard tonight, we can start putting Weed and Feed on it, and hopefully not have to worry about it anymore. (I actually just sprayed the rest with Week B Gone, which just kills the weeds and not the lawn. Lots easier.)

I'm so excited about some trees I bought. Mom went to Sam's Club last week and saw some 10-foot trees on sale for only $9 each! Hurray! Mom took an extra trip with me to Provo and we got 5 trees, (2 were for Dad) for less than the price I was planning on spending on 1 tree! Ryan helped me plant them Saturday. Okay, okay, in reality, Ryan dug the holes, put the trees in, and covered them. But, I watered the ground so it would be softer for him, and I'll point out where I want them, AND I'll stand by giving encouraging words. That's pretty much the same amount of work, don't you think?

I need to trim a couple of more things, then I should be okay to desert the yard for the summer. I guess I'll have some weeding to do, but since Ryan got rocks on most of the flowerbeds last year, I can just spray most of the weeds, and that makes my life so much easier.

I'm going to cover the 2 long garden boxes with the dead leaves that I never raked up last year and a black plastic sheet. That way they won't get too full of weeds, and hopefully they will mulch the leaves into compost and make the dirt even better for next year. I'm leaving the 2 small boxes open, since they have strawberries in them, and I don't want to kill them off. I'll just have to make sure I try and weed them every once in a while.