May Catch Up

I hate when I get behind on our family happenings on our blog.  I hate going backwards, I like to post things as they happen because I can obviously remember details so much better, but oh well, backwards a few days we shall go.  I have missed posting some pretty important things happening around here!

Royal's parents arrived on May 1st!  And Willow wasted no time in wrestling with grandpa.  She woke up from her nap, said hello, and then promptly told grandpa to sit "right there" on the floor because she was going to jump on him.  At least she's honest!

May 4th was Royal's 34th birthday!

One thing about the Lovingfosses is that they are hard workers!  And I'm pretty sure Royal had the best birthday ever because all we did all day was work!  We started out the morning at the strawberry patch and managed to pick around 45 pounds of strawberries!  (more pictures of that adventure coming)  Norma spent the majority of the rest of the 90 degree day inside the air conditioned house washing, hulling, freezing, and making pies out of the strawberries.  Royal and Wayne spent the rest of the day staining our fence.

I spent the day turning over the garden boxes, adding compost and peat moss, and then finally getting the rest of my plant starts in the ground and the rest of our seeds.  This year in our gardens we have basil, lavender, oregano, rosemary, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, carving pumpkins, fairy tale pumpkins, cantaloupe, zucchini, yellow squash, and cucumbers.  I think that's it....here's to hoping most of it grows!

More evidence that Royal's parents were here is that we were all pretty much spoiled rotten.  Food and groceries were bought for us.  I got to go shopping for my birthday present, Royal got more birthday presents, and each of the kids got to go shopping and pick out whatever they wanted - toys, clothes, whatever.  You have 5 bathing suits, but want another?  Grandma will buy it for you!!!!  It's pretty awesome and the kids, especially Jayden, are picking up on this and love when Grandma offers to take him shopping.
This is one of the outfits Willow picked out.

The purple shoes with the flower on the ankle are shoes Willow has been talking about for weeks.  Sometimes I think it's good to walk away from things the kids say they really want in order to see if they are still talking about them down the road.  Willow saw these shoes and she knew she had to have them.  A couple weeks later, she was still talking about them and  Grandma came to town and she got to go back to the store and get them!

The kids also got to pick out a new pool for the backyard.  This is pretty much an occurrence every time Grandpa and Grandma come to town. It always seems to be warm/hot and we've managed to pop the pool they bought us on the previous visit.  And since 75 degrees for Grandma is too hot, and 90 is just ridiculous, a new pool we got!

Grandma and Grandpa left yesterday, and now we are on a countdown to the end of school (11days!), a couple quick camping trips with dad, and then our big drive out west for the summer! 49 days to go!