Finally Garden boxes up and running

I decided after coming in from the garden at 9:45 I would boy cot school work tonight to write the blog I have been wanting to write! So long back story short I grew up with my parents having a huge garden space out in the valley and loved every second of spending the evenings and weekends out there tending and harvesting and roaming around the farm land. I loved it so much that for the last few years (as I struggle to find what really really makes my heart and sole happy) I begged my husband to build me a couple small raised beds so I could give my self a shot at this gardening thing :).

well a few weekends ago he built those beds as shown below *they turned out so awesome! with the help of out friend Chris

For Mothers Day all I asked for was to go buy all the starts (i was chicken and a little lazy to do seed) and plant away so that the beds were ready to go. Oh and to sleep in, I really really wanted to sleep in :o)

so the day before we went and got all the veggies we thought we would give a shot this year and prepped to plant! I am that girl who took a selfie with her plants.....

Anyway I was so excited I woke up bright and early(yes I slept in) and Hailey and I got to work on the fun stuff we had purchased the day before. It was a lot of fun planting everything and kinda of reliving the days when I used to help my mom and dad plants rows and rows of seeds! Although we had a mishap with the onions that was fixed and now we wont have a clump of 41 onions :) they are nice and neatly separated into rows here are some photos

 see those onion clumps.....haha thankfully I have people who told me I screwed up and I got to replant those lovely buggers

you would not believe my surprise when I went out after work, like I always do to check on my veggie children and low and behold my first born veggie!!!!! check out this super cute green pepper we have on our hands here!!!!

Anyway I know I am a farm girl at heart and once this school crap is over and I finally graduate with my bachelors degree I will be doing a lot more of what makes my heart pitter patter

Until next time my friends.....

Bunny Fun

Easter weekend came and went super fast and I cant believe how fun it was with all the littles in our family. I could gush all day about them but I will just share the pictures I snapped all day Sunday :)

Christmas Festivities 2014

Christmas 2014 is in the books and it was a good one! Thanks to our overly generous family members we all walked away very spoiled this year as we do every year. I struggled this year with the "material" side of things because I felt like I was stressed out about missing someone and getting this and getting that and blah blah when the holidays have so much more meaning that purchased gifts! I wanted Hailey to learn the real meaning of Christmas, I wanted to go to church and I wanted to spend quality time with my family without the expectation of gift giving. BUT none the less it was a great time all around and here are the pictures to prove it!

We started with Christmas Eve and Nana and Papa's house AKA Jared's parents.

all the grand kids! Anna, JJ, Hailey, Alex, Jackson and Jayden

The boys

and the girls

my handsome little man

The Schuffenhauer Family (1/3)

Christmas day was wonderful, started by waking up and getting out of bed around 8 this was a Christmas miracle in itself!

Stockings!!!

Micky Mouse

My adorable family *note how perfect Hails is*

Our attempt at a all family picture haha I need to work on my choke hold

Presents

My girl

Santa delivered a Wii U to the Schuffenhauers

Hailey got this for me at the student store <3

and we finished the day off by heading over to my parents, here is the last of the pictures but the best part about this is we got to give my parents a gift my mom has been dreaming of for so long!

cousins!

My sissy and her son Gio

he had little interest in is presents, only wanted apples (and he found them everywhere!!) and to sit on my mom lol

Jared, Jackson and Frankie

the village at night!

Jess opening her camera

my mom worked on this blanket in from of Hailey for MONTHS! she said every time I wish i could have that blanket, she was super excited when she opened it!

Grandma helping JC

Take a good look at that wrap job

here comes the big one!

Mom got the "joke" about the box....dad was clueless hahahaha

All the kids were able to get together and purchase family portrait session through Thrill of the Chase Photography. A full 1 hour session for my parents to get any picture of us they could think of. I am super excited for them

and that is all my friends....Until next time.