From This Front Porch

8 of 52: Mothers Day 2009

Here are the munchkins and I* on Sunday Morning.

I had a special day. Receiving school-made mothers day gifts, going out to eat with Mom and Dad for lunch, and trying out my new Panini Press for supper.

Thanks everyone!!!

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*52 Weeks is a year long challenge for YOU to be in a picture once a week for 52 weeks. We are always the ones behind the camera, this is YOUR chance to get out in front and be in the pictures with our family. We are glad you are joining this challenge. More importantly your family will really enjoy having you in the picture. Thanks for playing along! Oh, you can just jump in now with 1 of 52, you're not getting off that easy! Now go take a picture!

Repotting Tomatoes

So, it's been about 3.5 weeks now since we started our tomato seeds. Now they are getting big enough to replant into bigger containers. We just grab some white paper cups out of the cupboard, stab a hole in the bottom with a knife, fill them with a little potting soil and place each little plant in a cup...

Now Randy packs dirt in around each one,

waters them,

and places them back under the lights. On nice sunny days, we take them out and put them on the picnic table during the day...

They are growing faster now. We keep watering them and moving the lights up a little to allow for their growth...

Coming up this week: Tilling, Planting our first row of potatoes, maybe spinach and onions.

Freezing temps and heavy frost here during the night still so not much else is going on...

A Little Recital

This video is for Grandparents, aunts and uncles, and for Kari (her former piano teacher). We Miss You!!!

I told her we could have a real recital sometime with tea and cookies so we'll see if we get it done or not...

Our Mothers

Happy Mothers Day To You Mom!

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In Loving Memory

Here is a poem for Mothers Day that I wanted to share. When I found this poem 5 years ago, I had to pass it on to my Mother-in-Law because it said so beautifully what I felt....

Our Mother

You are the Mother I received
the day I wed your son.
And I just want to thank you, Mom,
for the things that you have done.

You have given me a gracious man
with whom I share my life.
You are his lovely Mother
and I his lucky wife.

You used to pat his little head
and now I hold his hand.
You raised in love a little boy
then gave to me a man.

Author Unknown

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No Training Wheels!

Maya is determined to learn to ride her bike without training wheels! She tries to get anyone to help her. Dustin was the lucky guy in the above photo who got the back aching chore...

Thanks Dustin!

Saturday

We spent most of the day outside last Saturday. It was a perfect day to be outside!

A few years ago we did some landscaping in front of our house with trees and bushes and bark. We soon learned to hate bark. It blew all over and was a huge mess most of the time. So the last few weeks, Randy removed all the bark and then he replaced it with rock. We are liking the rock very much. Not even our strong wind here can blow it away.

The girls and I made a trip to the nursery and had fun planting flowers when we got home.

These pansies and violas should be perfect for the next month. And it feels great to have flowers planted already!

And now another Saturday has arrived. What will we do today?

Enjoy your weekend!

7 of 52-Past Mothers Days

I have enjoyed some of your pictures from your past that you have posted for the 52 week challenge.* Since Mothers Day is this Sunday, I thought I would go back and post my Mothers Day picture from the past 8 years. It's fun (and a little sad) to see how fast the kids have changed in these few short years...

My very first Mothers Day in 2001. How lucky to share it with both my own Mother and my sweet Grandmother...

Mothers Day 2002- only 2 months away from having number 2!

Mothers Day 2003-Cute hair Kyla... ;)

Mothers Day 2004 found me VERY much in the middle of morning sickness and very much a mother of two busy toddlers!

Mothers Day 2005-Ahhh... complete with 3...

Mothers Day 2006-a beautiful day to be a Mom...

Mothers Day 2007-why do I look SO tired?...

and Mothers Day 2008!

Hope ALL you Mommy's have a wonderful Mothers Day and... DON'T FORGET TO TAKE A PICTURE!!!

Love always,

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Bacon-Cheddar Deviled Eggs for the Kids!

Here is one of our favorite snacks. It's a great recipe to let the kids help with.

Check out this recipe and our step by step pics at Country Kitchen Recipes!

Try is today. It's not only good and fun, but it'll give you, and them, the protein and energy you need to get through the rest of your day!

Man's Work

Here are the "man's" replacing a rotted fence post.

After huffing and puffing to pull out the bottom of the old fencepost, Colter says, "Only the man's can do this hard work."

And aren't we lucky to have the "man's" around here to do all this back breaking work!

Sisters

Kyla-"Should we go on a walk to the corner with Tober?"

Maya(jumping up and down)-"YEAH, YEAH!"

So Kyla waits as Maya runs and grabs the first shoes that she can find-her "hand-me-down" winter boots from the front closet. And then they go on their walk holding hands...