Michael took the kids on a drive...

...While I got a few hours at home by myself. I would say one of my most favorite things is to be home alone in my house. I start to get bored after a few hours but there is just something to be said about peace and quiet with no distractions. So last Sunday, Michael took the kids to see the beautiful spring wildflowers and then they ended up in Superior. They took my camera along and took these pretty pictures.



We decided to do some spring cleaning in our backyard and maybe bit off more than we could chew but we persevered and won the battle with the cat claw. Everyone got in on the action. We had SO MUCH catclaw to remove. Our neighbors are adding two more bricks to the fence we share so we (along with our neighbors) decided to take the catclaw down. It starts on our side and then flows over onto their side. I have never been a fan of it, it takes a few feet away from our backyard space and I don't find it very pleasing to the eye. I like more of a clean look myself. So after two days of really hard work, the task is complete except for the fact that we need to power wash the brick wall and figure out how to get all of this

into our green barrell. Of course it will take several weeks to get it all in there but it will get done.

And while I had my camera out, I couldn't help but take a picture of these pretty bushes. I just love it when they have pretty purple flowers in bloom.

Then today the kids were plalying outside so I decided to grab my camera and capture a few pictures of the kids. But Anna was the only one to pose, the boys were too fast and too busy to stop for a picture. These pics are keepers, I love the black and white one. Why is the black and white picture so big you ask, well I am trying to figure out how to get my pictures to be bigger on my blog. I have done a little research and so far I have only figured out how to do it with vertical pictures, the horizontal ones won't work unless I change my entire blog layout which I am not willing to do right now. I still need to fiddle with this some more because it is too skinny. Oh well, I will keep working on it.



Well, it is 7:15 on a Saturday night. The kids are still playing outside. I just love their imaginations. I hear them saying things like, "put your spacesuits on" and "your turn to pilot" and then Camden says "An orphan gave this to me, here you take it!" Alrighty then, I guess they all understand each other cause that orphan comment sort of threw me off a bit. My darlings sure make me giggle. Michael is watching TV, I am blogging and couting down the minutes to bedtime because I am really tired tonight and ready to climb into bed and go night night.