Beautiful Day!! - May 29th

My flowers in my little greenhouse...both are my birthday present. Yeah!

Flower garden "before" pic.

Shayne planting the golden raspberries.

Hard at work picking dandelions.

This picture I will frame. Makes me cry. Enough said.

Signing "flower" again. This boy loves to communicate with his sign language.

My big boy walking up the steps.
I used to post things like the first time he grabbed his toes...so I thought I would post a new milestone. So sad how fast they grow up...but so fun at the same time.

"See Mom...picking weeds!!"

He's just too dang cute in his shorts and hat to not take a pic.

Chillin' with the dogs by the bunkhouse/cabin.

Shayne hard at work in the hammock in the backyard. :)

My "after" pic of the flower garden. It looks much better 3 weeks later...the flowers are actually blooming, even though they haven't seen the sun... :( ...at least they're getting plenty of water, right?

See him signing "flower"?

Helping dad pull grass out of the iris plants. I'm pretty sure he pulled more iris leaves out than grass. :)

Can you see the yellow pollen from the dandelions on his mouth?

So for 2 weeks toward the end of May we had GORGEOUS weather!! I'm talking 80 degrees on some days. Ya...it was way warmer in Alaska than it was in Idaho at the time. We were LOVING it!! We went outside everyday for most of the day. It was awesome. The Bug was loving life. He was even wearing shorts as you can see from the pics.

We would go out in the morning after breakfast and hang out for awhile. Then he'd take a nap and we'd go out again, but with a hat, b/c I knew he'd get burned if we didn't. I'm glad he likes to wear his hat.

He was very into picking dandelions, which was ok with us. It was so funny, b/c he'd pick them and put them up to his mouth to smell them. So, he had yellow pollen all over his mouth. He would also sign "flower" as he picked and brought them to me...how cute is that?! Never thought I would get to see a toddler of my own pick and bring me flowers. I'm so lucky.

The Bug would just wander around while Shayne & I were doing yard work, attempting to "help out" here and there. Shayne got me some topsoil to plant a flower garden in the yard, which I loved! I have before and after pics. Shayne got some golden raspberry starts from a coworker and he planted them, and we got a topsy-turvy planter for strawberries that is doing well too. Our regular raspberry patch is doing awesome, and we should have a pile of raspberries this fall. Yeah!

I can't even tell you how much we loved having such nice weather. I took all these pics on the same day, and this wasn't the only day like this. I just wish we could have another 2 weeks like it...it's been raining and overcast for the last 2 weeks. Ick.

We did love it while it lasted. *Sigh*