Spring Break

It's our first official day of Spring Break.  The weather today was beeeee-you-tee-ful!  Kid #1 wanted to make his own garden so he could plant the wild onions that he harvested from near the duck pond.

We tried to find a suitable location but had a hard time. We remembered that phone lines ran under the first site that we picked.  So we decided to expand the porch garden.  The digging, hoeing, and dirt screening got tiring real fast so we enlisted the help of the ladies (and gentleman).

While the birds did the hard work, Kids and I got down to business making the front of the house look respectable.  Neighbors are selling their house and want to help them along (even though it kills us that they are leaving) any way we can by making our yard look maintained. 

I am still surprised to see how green everything looks.  Notice the pink mums?  They were the flowers I got to take home from Popo's funeral.  There are some other mums there, too, that aren't blooming.  They are from one of Grosspapa's birthdays.  I'm happy to have plants that have special significant meaning.  

I am so used to everything looking very brown after this summer.  Here's a picture of Halloween when the yard was very, very sad.  

We went back to Austin Homebrew Supply and got the ingredients for a Summer Pale Ale.  I can't wait to start the brewing process tomorrow.  Good tasting beer, here we come!  We also got a chain for Husband's chain saw.  We're going to go out to the country for a few days and cut down some trees at M&D's.  The whole family is looking forward to a break from the schedule.  The kidlets were hungry so we treated ourselves to an early dinner at Home Field Grill in Round Rock.  The service was uncharacteristically slow and they wouldn't take our gift cards.  Gonna have to write the corporate office about that one.  Enjoyed my weekly facial at

http://avenuefive.com/

One of these days I'll have to take/post some pictures of the amazing results I've gotten.  My friend, Kelly, is going through school there and has graciously allowed me to be her "model" during the last few months of her training.  I most likely won't continue getting weekly facials after she graduates (since I'm the cheapest person I know) but it has been such a wonderful experience getting pampered each week.

I'm still trying to sell my family on the idea of homeschooling.  I told Kid #1 he could have a home cooked hot lunch every day.  Kid #2 doesn't need a lot of convincing.  Husband isn't sold on the idea at all.  I'm glad that he balances my radical ideas out but this is an idea I'd really really like to implement.