A few pictures from around the house....

Spring has finally sprung! Everything is blooming and coming out of their winter slumber. The house always looks so nice this time of year. We watch the birds and wait for the baby birds to come....which are on the way. Actually two eggs have already hatched. More pictures of that to come. Here are s few pictures from around Patch of Heaven. Enjoy! This was a seat that Rich has had since he was a little boy. He took the seat part out and spray painted it and tada... a plant stand! Love it!

Of course, Patch of Heaven would not be complete without the pond. Rich planted these Saliva's in the bird bath...they have enough water to bathe in.

One of our frog friends. He was just sitting on the rock sunning himself. I think he is checking out the fish. My friend Dimitri gave us the lilly pad two years ago. We are hoping that they are going to bloom this year!

We are trying hosta in pots, since I have a hard time growing them in the ground....when there is a will there is a way!

The Beautiful iris'. They are really starting to come out. We cannot have Patch of Heaven without the Tennessee state flower!

Spoiled brat...

Karley....oh what can I say? She thinks she owns the joint!

Oh the pollen of it all!

This picture says it all. sneezing, watering eyes, wet pants.....uh was not suppose to say that. It has been beautiful but there are alot of yellow cars driving around town. The pollen is extremely high. Hopefully it will rain and knock it out of the air.

Our Loch...

So Trenton decided that our pond was going to be the Loch for the Lochness monster. He made a Styrofoam monster but unfortunately, the pond took it down. It makes me smile to see his imagination.....one day he will create the newest gizmo....I hope I am there to stand in the shadow of his achievement!

The garden is in!

Last week we started planting the garden. We only planted seeds, no plants until the last frost. I am not sure what "winter" we are in...blackberry, blueberry, Indian...wait that is summer. I am not sure, all I know is we are definitely waiting until later than last year to plant the plants. Our garden sucked last year. Both Rich and I are determined to have a rockin' garden this summer. Here are just a few things that we planted...

Root beer floats anyone??

It has been such a nice weekend. We worked in the yard on Saturday, went to church and grilled hot dogs out for lunch. I cleaned the pool, Rich tilled the garden and the boys played. It has been beaUtiful this weekend. We have really enjoyed the covered deck this weekend, we sat out there this afternoon and had root beer floats. What a great way to spend a lazy afternoon!

Our new friends...

Well we discovered two new friends today. Two frogs. As gross as they are, it is cool that they have decided to call our pond their home. Rich and Tucker want to get a turtle to make it complete. I am afraid they will eat all the fish, but it is Rich's pond so whatever he wants to do with it is fine by me. It really has taken shape this year. It looks really good, it just needs a dose of mulch and it will be complete! :)